Chilean minelayer Colo Colo
The Chilean minelayer Colo Colo was a minelayer purchased from Finland in 1919. The ship entered service with the Chilean Navy in 1920. She remained a part of the Chilean Navy until 1930 when the ship was sold and renamed Toqui. The ship sank in 1944.
 Sister ship Uusimaa | |
| History | |
|---|---|
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| Name | Colo Colo |
| Namesake | Colo Colo |
| Builder | Kone ja Silta Oy and Sandvikens Skeppsdocka och Mekaniska Verkstad, Helsinki, Finland |
| Laid down | 1916 |
| Launched | 1917 |
| Completed | 1918 |
| Commissioned | 1920 |
| Reinstated | In 1920 by J. Samuel White, Cowes, UK |
| Fate | Sank 1944 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Golub-class guard ship |
| Displacement | 545 t (full) |
| Length | 52.6 m (172 ft 7 in) |
| Beam | 7.47 m (24 ft 6 in) |
| Draught | 3.35 m (11 ft 0 in) max |
| Propulsion | 1,400 hp (1,000 kW), VTE, 3 cylindrical boilers |
| Speed | 14.5 knots (26.9 km/h; 16.7 mph) |
| Range | coal 100, 700 sm by 14 kn |
| Complement | 42 |
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Service history
In 1919 the Chilean Government bought 4 incomplete ships captured by Finland on slipways in 1918 after Russia's withdrawal from World War I in 1917. The ships Chibis, Kulik, Strizh and Bekas were in Helsinki under construction for the Russian Empire.
The ships were renamed Colo Colo, Elicura, Leucotón and Orompello, completed and in 1920 passed to England to receive minelaying equipment at the J. Samuel White shipyard. They arrived in Chile on 26 October 1920.
During the Chilean naval mutiny of 1931 Colo Colo (mutineers) chased the submarine Rucumilla (government) and forced it to enter the Biobio River.
She was sold in 1930 and renamed Toqui. She sank on 25 February 1944 off Huasco.[1]
References
- Chilean Navy website, Colo Colo