Chilean destroyer Almirante Condell

For other ships with the same name, see Chilean ship Almirante Condell.

Condell
History
Chile
Name	Almirante Condell
Ordered	1911
Builder	J. Samuel White
Laid down	1912
Launched	28 September 1912
Commissioned	January 1914
Decommissioned	19 December 1945
Fate	scrapped, 1955
General characteristics
Class and type	Almirante Lynch-class destroyer
Displacement	1,430 long tons (1,453 t) standard 1,850 long tons (1,880 t) full load
Length	101 m (331 ft 4 in)
Beam	9.9 m (32 ft 6 in)
Draught	3.35 m (11 ft 0 in)
Propulsion	6 × Foster-White mixed fired boilers 3 shaft Parsons direct turbines 30,000 shp (22,000 kW)
Speed	31 knots (57 km/h; 36 mph)
Range	4,205 nmi (7,788 km; 4,839 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Complement	160
Armament	6 × 4 in (102 mm) guns 4 × machine guns 3 × twin 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes

Almirante Condell was a destroyer which served with the Chilean Navy through World War I and World War II. She was the second ship in the Chilean Navy to bear this name.

The Chilean Navy ordered six ships from J. Samuel White in 1911. These destroyers were larger and more powerful than contemporary British destroyers. Almirante Condell was built by the United Kingdom as part of a six-ship Almirante Lynch class of destroyers, of which only two ships were delivered before the outbreak of war. Those two ships served in the Chilean Navy until 1945.[1]

The ship was named after Admiral Carlos Condell, Chilean sailor, hero of the War of the Pacific.

Citations

1. Whitley, p. 30

Bibliography

• Whitley, M. J. (2000). Destroyers of World War Two: An International Encyclopedia. London: Cassell & Co. ISBN 1-85409-521-8.