USS Isla de Cuba was an Isla de Luzon class protected cruiser built by Sir W.G. Armstrong Mitchell and Company at Elswick for the Spanish Navy and later captured by the United States Navy. Ordered in January 1886 and launched on 11 December 1886, she displaced 1,038 tonnes, was about 60 metres long and was driven by two sets of triple expansion engines. She fought in the Rif War, was sent to the Philippines in 1897 and was scuttled at the Battle of Manila Bay in 1898, then raised and commissioned into the United States Navy in 1900 and rerated a gunboat, used to suppress the Philippine Revolution. After service as a school ship she was sold to Venezuela in 1912, renamed Mariscal Sucre, and scrapped in 1940.
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the ship was ordered from the British shipbuilding company Sir W.G. Armstrong Mitchell & Company in January 1886
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In January 1886, Spain placed orders for two small protected cruisers, Isla de Luzón and Isla de Cuba with the British shipbuilding company Armstrongs to be built at their Elswick, Tyne and Wear shipyard.
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The ship was launched on 11 December 1886
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USS Isla de Cuba was a Isla de Luzón-class protected cruiser of the United States Navy captured from the Spanish Navy during the Spanish-American War.
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The ship was powered by steam from two cylindrical boilers fed to two sets of horizontal triple expansion engines
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The ships had capacity for 160 t (160 long tons; 180 short tons) of coal for fuel.
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The ship was scrapped in 1940.
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the ship was ordered from the British shipbuilding company Sir W.G. Armstrong Mitchell & Company in January 1886
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In January 1886, Spain placed orders for two small protected cruisers, Isla de Luzón and Isla de Cuba with the British shipbuilding company Armstrongs to be built at their Elswick, Tyne and Wear shipyard.
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