Presidente Pinto
An item reported the French firm Société des forges etc Chantiers de la Méditerranée, La Seyne, France asked for tenders for guns to arm the Chilean cruisers Presidente Pinto (1) and Presidente Errazuriz (2), included from the British firm Armstrong and the German firm Krupp. Her machinery was delivered by Menpenti, Marseille, France and the guns and mountings made at Le Havre, France [The shipyard founded herself an important gun factory at Le Havre with as director Canet]. Each cruiser had an armament of 4 quick firing Canet guns with a gun barrel weighing 5,6 tons, projectile weight 40 kilo, able to penetrate 33cm iron, 2-12cm Canet quick firing guns, 4-5,7cm Hotchkiss quick firing guns, 4-4,7cm revolver guns and 2 torpedo tubes.
Notes
1. Protected cruiser. Building ordered in 1887, Société des forges etc Chantiers de la Méditerranée, La Seyne, France, launched on 4 September 1890, commissioned on 1 January 1892, without success tried Columbia to buy her in 1902 and sunk near Quellón 0n 26 May 1905 or stricken in 1910?. Sister ship Presidente Errazuriz.
2. Protected cruiser Presidente Pinto, laid down at the Société des forges etc Chantiers de la Méditerranée, La Seyne, France in 1889, launched on 21 June 1890, completed in 1892, gunnery training ship since 1919 and stricken in 1930.
