Chilean ironclad Almirante Cochrane

Chilean battery Cochrane
History
Chile
Name	Almirante Cochrane
Builder	Earle's Shipbuilding Co., Hull
Cost	2,000,000 pesos
Laid down	1873
Launched	23 January 1874
Completed	December 1874
Decommissioned	1933
Out of service	1908
Reclassified	as training ship, 1898
Fate	Scrapped 1934
General characteristics
Class and type	Almirante Cochrane-class ironclad
Type	Central battery ship
Displacement	3,480 long tons (3,540 t)
Length	210 ft (64.0 m)
Beam	46 ft 9 in (14.2 m)
Draught	19 ft 8 in (6.0 m)
Installed power	3,000 ihp (2,200 kW)
Propulsion	2 shafts, 2 Trunk steam engines 6 cylindrical boilers
Sail plan	Barque rig
Speed	12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Range	1,200 nmi (2,200 km; 1,400 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement	300
Armament	in 1879: 6 × 9 in (229 mm) muzzle-loading rifles 1 × 20-pounder gun 1 × 9-pounder gun 1 × 7-pounder gun 1 × 1-inch (25 mm) Nordenfeldt machine gun
Armor	Belt: 4.5–9 in (114–229 mm) Battery: 6–8 in (152–203 mm) Deck: 2–3 in (51–76 mm) Conning tower: 4.5 in (114 mm) Bulkheads: 6 in (152 mm)

Almirante Cochrane was a central battery ship of the Chilean Navy in the late nineteenth century. She was built, like her twin, Blanco Encalada, in the UK in 1875. She participated in the War of the Pacific, with her most prominent action being her victory over the Peruvian turret ram Huáscar in the Angamos naval battle. Almirante Cochrane was part of the forces that defeated President José Manuel Balmaceda in the Chilean Civil War of 1891.

The ship was named after Thomas Cochrane, a British naval officer who served as the first Vice Admiral of Chile, leading the Chilean Navy during the War of Independence.