ARA Rivadavia

Type:
Battleship
Class:
Rivadavia (Class Overview)
Builder:
Fore River Ship & Engine Co.
Quincy, Massachusetts
Hull Number:
N/A
Ordered:
1909
Commissioned:
December 1914
Keel Laid:
May 25, 1910
Decommissioned:
N/A
Launched:
June 28, 1911
Stricken:


N/A
Fate:
Sold Feb. 8, 1956 to Messrs Ardemsa Genoa, Italy and scrapped in 1957.


Dimensions, machinery and performance

Length:
584' 9"
Engines:
3 Curtis steam turbines
Beam:
96' 7"
Boilers:
18 Babcock & Wilcox (coal fired)
Draft:
28'
Shafts:
3
Displacement:
27,940 std. / 30,600 full
SHP:
39,500
Speed:
22.5 knots
Crew:
1,215
Range:
7,740 NM@ 10 knots


Armament As Built
Number Carried
Type
Arrangement
Maximum Range / Ceiling
12
12"/50 (305mm)
6 twin turrets
24,000 yards @ 14.7° (13.6 miles)
with a 870 lb. armor piercing shell

12
6"/50 (152mm)
single mounts
15,000 yards @ 14.9° (8.5 miles)
with a 105 lb. armor piercing shell

16
4"/50 (102mm)
single mounts
15,920 yards @ 20° (9 miles)
with a 33 lb. armor piercing shell

2
21" (533mm)
torpedo tubes
2 broadside
submerged
4,000 yards @ 27 knots
200 lb. wet gun-cotton warhead


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