Chilean cruiser Presidente Pinto


History
Chilean cruiser Presidente Pinto in a postcard
Chile
Name	Presidente Pinto
Namesake	Aníbal Pinto Garmendia
Ordered	1887
Builder	Forges et Chantiers
Launched	1890
Commissioned	1 January 1892
Fate	Sunk near Quellón on 26 May 1905
General characteristics
Class and type	Presidente Errázuriz class protected cruiser
Displacement	2,047 t
Length	268 feet 4 inches (81.79 m)
Beam	35 ft 9.0 in (10.896 m)
Draught	14 feet 5 inches (4.39 m)
Propulsion	5,400 ihp (4,000 kW)
Speed	18.35 kn (33.98 km/h; 21.12 mph)
Range	400 t bunkerage
Armament	4 × 5.9-inch (150 mm)/36 caliber guns 2 × 4.7-inch (120 mm)/36 caliber guns 4 × 57 mm (2.2 in)/40 caliber guns 2 × Gatling machine guns 3 × 14-inch (360 mm) torpedo tubes
Armor	Deck: 2.25 in (57 mm) Casemate: 3.25 in (83 mm)

Presidente Pinto was a Presidente Errázuriz class protected cruiser of the Chilean Navy. She was built, like her sister ship, the protected cruiser Presidente Errázuriz, in France supervised by Juan José Latorre. The ships were ordered in 1887 by President José Manuel Balmaceda before the beginning of the 1891 Chilean Civil War.

During the war, the two cruisers lay incomplete in French dockyards alongside the pre-dreadnought battleship Capitán Prat. If these had been secured by the Balmacedists the naval supremacy of the congress would have been seriously challenged. The congressional forces formally requested that the ships be detained. None of the three ships were involved in the Civil War.

Presidente Pinto was launched and sailed to Chile on 5 August 1891, before having been completed. Her artillery was supplied from an English merchant in the North Sea while transiting to Chile.

Her voyage to Chile saw some trouble, forced to return to Le Havre in order to pick up crew and insubordination of the crew. She arrived to Valparaíso in September 1892, too late to participate in the Civil War.

The engines had to be repaired because of the improper conditioning during the voyage to Chile.

In 1902, during the Thousand Days' War, the Colombian Government tried unsuccessfully to purchase Presidente Pinto.

References

Bernal, Ricardo García. "Operaciones Navales en la Guerra Civil de los "Mil días" y la separación de Panamá" (in Spanish). Panol de la historia. Retrieved 28 June 2015.

External links

Chilean Navy website, Crucero Presidente Pinto
Presidente Pinto covered by "Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1860-1905"

Cruisers of the Chilean Navy

Cruisers

Light cruisers

Tre Kronor class	Almirante Latorre (CL-04) (1971–1984)
Brooklyn class	O'Higgins (CL-02) (1951–1992) Capitan Prat (CL-03) (1951–1982)

Armored cruisers

Esmeralda (1896–1930)
O'Higgins (1898–1933)

Protected cruisers

Chacabuco (1902–1950)
New Orleans class	Ministro Zenteno (1896–1930)
Blanco Encalada (1895–1940)
Presidente Errázuriz class	Presidente Errázuriz (1892–1930) Presidente Pinto (1892–1905)
Esmeralda (1884–1894)

Unprotected cruisers

Tsukushi class	Arturo Prat (1880)

S: Single ship of class
C: Purchase cancelled

Footnotes

Later renamed as Chacabuco.

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