Chilean ironclad Blanco Encalada

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Blanco Encalada
History
Chile
Name	Valparaíso
Namesake	Manuel Blanco Encalada
Builder	Earle's Shipbuilding Co., Hull
Laid down	1873
Launched	8 May 1875
Completed	1875
Renamed	Blanco Encalada (1876)
Fate	Sunk by torpedo, 23 April 1891
General characteristics
Class and type	Almirante Cochrane-class 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	6 × 9 in (229 mm) muzzle-loading rifles 1 × 20-pounder gun 1 × 9-pounder gun 1 × 7-pounder gun
Armour	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)

Blanco Encalada was a central battery ship built by Earle's Shipbuilding Co. in England for the Chilean Navy in 1875. She was nicknamed El Blanco. She participated actively in the War of the Pacific, her most important action being the capture of the Peruvian monitor Huáscar during the Battle of Angamos.

Blanco Encalada formed part of the congressional forces that brought down President José Manuel Balmaceda in the Chilean Civil War of 1891. She was sunk during that conflict on 23 April 1891, becoming the first ironclad warship to be sunk by a self-propelled torpedo.^[1][2]