French armoured cruiser Dupuy de Lôme
An item reported that the Peruvian destroyer Teniente Rodriguez (1) bought from the French shipyards Société Schneider, Creusot was bound homewards. She was around3 year earlier built with a length of 80 metres and a trial speed of 28,5 knots and fitted out with Zoelly turbines. Underway she was to meet at the Azores the also bough armoured cruiser Commandante Aguirre (the former Dupuy de Lôme) and united to travel on.(2)
Notes
1. In the 1930s still in service and used as training ship and in 1939 mentioned ass a hulk. French Chasseur-class, laid down in 1907, launched in 1909 and completed in 1911.
2. Sold on 12 September 1912 to Peru but never delivered while Peru lost interest and on 17 January 1917 officially given back. Laid down at the Brest shipyard on 4 July 1888, launched on 27 October 1890 and commissioned on 15 May 1895.
