Chilean cruiser Blanco Encalada

For other ships with the same name, see Chilean ship Blanco Encalada.

The protected cruiser Blanco Encalada was purchased by the Chilean Government for £333,500 during the Argentine–Chilean naval arms race. She was the second ship named Blanco Encalada. (The previous ship was the armored frigate Blanco Encalada sunk in the 1891 Chilean Civil War).

Protected cruiser Blanco Encalada in 1918
History
Chile
Name	Blanco Encalada
Namesake	Manuel Blanco Encalada
Ordered	1892
Builder	Armstrong Mitchell and Co. Ltd, Elswick
Launched	1893
Commissioned	1895
Decommissioned	1940
Fate	Sold in 1945
General characteristics
Class and type	Design "Yoshino" by Philip Watts (naval architect)
Type	Protected cruiser
Displacement	4,420
Length	370 feet (110 m)
Beam	47 feet (14 m)
Draft	20.5 feet (6.2 m)
Propulsion	14.500 IHP
Speed	22.8 kn
Complement	427 men
Armament	2 × 1 - 203/40 Armstrong P 10 × 1 - 152/40 Armstrong W 12 × 1 - 76/40 Armstrong 12 × 1 - 37/23 Hotchkiss, 5 - 450 TT (1 bow, 4 beam)

In December 1906 she was involved in the repression of the workers movement in the Saltpeter mines, railroads and harbour in Antofagasta.

On 17 December 1907 she brought troops from Arica to Iquique to repress thousands of miners from different nitrate mines in Chile's north to appeal for government intervention to improve their living and working conditions. These troops committed the Santa María School massacre.

See also

• South American dreadnought race