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Sunday, 21 September 2025

Chilean naval tanker Rancagua 1929-1964 (1989)

Model by Carlos Danyau Cabezas Museo Maritimo Nacional, Valparaiso, Chile, April 2025

Launched by Armstrong, Whitwort&CO. (Shipbuilders) ltd. on the Low Walker yard with yard number 1052on 19 November 1929, completed in February 1930, delivered to Chile, stricken in 1964, converted into a static tanker at Dawson Island, Tierra del Fuego in 1967 and sunk while ised as a target near Cabo Rowlet, Tierra del Fuego in November 1989. 

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