Ron van Maanen
Laid down at the yard at Rio de Janeiro in 1885, launched on 20 March 1890, completed 3 years later and around 1920 stricken. With a displacement of 4,735 tons were her dimensions 294’2” (waterline) x 47’4” x 19’9” or 89,66 x 14,43 x 6,02 metres. Rigged liked a barque and with a horizontal triple expansion steam engine with two shaft and 7 cylindrical boilers supplying 7,500 ihp allowing a speed of 17 knots while she had a coal bunker capacity of 400-750 tons. With a flushed deck and sheathed with wood. The armament consisted of 4-6” Armstrong quick firing guns in casemates on the upper deck, 6-6” Armstrong quick firing guns and 2-4’7” Armstrong quick firing guns on the main deck for broadside gunfire and further more was she fitted out with 10x-13pdr guns. The casemates were protected by 3” thick armour, the conning tower by 2”, while the protective deck had a thickness of 1.6”. For the armour was steel used. Her crew numbered around 400 men.
