ARA Pueyrredón

ARA Pueyrredón was one of four Giuseppe Garibaldi-class armoured cruisers bought by the Argentine Navy from Italy, built as an Italian Giuseppe Garibaldi by Gio. Ansaldo & C. at Genoa. Navypedia dates her launch to 25 September 1897 and her completion to September 1898, while the English Wikipedia article gives a launch on 27 July 1898. She displaced about 6,775 tonnes, was about 105 metres long on the waterline, and was driven by two vertical triple-expansion steam engines with sixteen Belleville boilers rated at 13,000 horsepower for 20 knots. Her armament was two 254 millimetre guns and fourteen 152 millimetre guns behind a 150 millimetre armour belt. Like the General Belgrano she was later reclassified as a coast defence ship, and between 1926 and 1937 her boilers were replaced by eight oil-fired Yarrow boilers at Puerto Belgrano. Converted to a training ship in 1941, she was stricken on 2 August 1954 and was the last survivor of her class.