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Isla de Cuba


Isla de Cuba served the Navies of Spain, the United States, the Maryland Naval Militia and Venezuela.
Isla de Cuba Class Gunboat: Laid down 25 February 1886 by Sir W. G. Armstrong, Newcastle on Tyne, England as the Spanish Cruiser Isla de Cuba; Launched 11 December 1886; Scuttled 1 May 1898 in Manila Bay, Philippines; Salvaged and commissioned USS Isla de Cuba 11 April 1900 at Hong Kong, China; Decommissioned 9 June 1904 at Portsmouth, NH; Loaned to the Maryland Naval Militia 21 March 1907; Sold to the Republic of Venezuela 2 April 1912 and renamed Mariscal Sucre; Struck from the Navy list 17 May 1912; Scrapped in 1940.

Specifications: Displacement 1,125 t.; Length 196' 6"; Beam 30'; Draft 12' 3"; Speed 13 kts.; Complement 142; Armament four 4" mounts, four 6-pounders and three torpedo tubes - (1910) six 3" mounts and four 6-pounders; Propulsion two cylinderical boilers, two 516ihp horizontal triple-expansion engines, two shafts.

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Spanish Cruiser Isla de Cuba
Isla de Cuba 117k Photographed soon after completion, probably in a British port.
Copied from Office of Naval Intelligence Album of Foreign Warships.
U.S. Navy photo NH 88604		 Naval Historical Center
Mariscal Sucre
Isla de Cuba 65k c. 1918
Seen here as Mariscal Sucre
Photo from the 1924 edition of Jane's Fighting Ships		 Robert Hurst
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