Corrientes-class destroyer

The Corrientes class was a group of four torpedo boat destroyers that Yarrow built in London for the Argentine Navy between 1896 and 1898. The Argentine Navy was modernising and enlarging its fleet during a border dispute with Chile, and the ships were ordered in 1896 and completed by 1898. They were based on the Havock design, with a length between perpendiculars of 190 feet, a normal displacement of 240 long tons and a complement of 54. Two propellers were driven by triple-expansion steam engines supplied by six Yarrow water-tube boilers, which produced 4,200 indicated horsepower and a maximum speed of 27 knots, and the ships carried about 80 long tons of coal. Armament was one 3 inch gun, three 3-pounder guns and three 18 inch torpedo tubes. The ships had trouble reaching and holding their top speed. Santa Fe struck a reef and sank in 1897, and Corrientes, Misiones and Entre Rios were decommissioned on 23 October 1930. Yarrow reused the design as the basis for the Ikazuchi class built for Japan.