BIC Atlácatl (1883)

For other ships with the same name, see BIC Atlácatl (disambiguation).

BIC Atlácatl

A drawing of BIC Atlácatl, c. 1884.
History
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Name:	BIC Atlácatl
Namesake:	Atlácatl of Amacha
Owner:	Creeperian Navy
Port of registry:	Adolfosburg
Ordered:	12 December 1879
Builder:	Díaz-Mori Shipbuilding
Cost:	3.4 million pesos
Yard number:	688
Way number:	3
Laid down:	5 April 1880
Launched:	6 June 1882
Completed:	15 July 1883
Acquired:	20 July 1883
Commissioned:	1 August 1883
Decommissioned:	12 January 1918
Nickname(s):	Atlá
General characteristics
Class and type:	Atlácatl-class protected cruiser
Type:	Protected cruiser
Displacement:	2,950 lt (2,997 t)
Length:	295 pi (270 ft; 82 m)
Beam:	46 pi (42 ft; 13 m)
Draft:	21 pi (19 ft; 6 m)
Decks:	5 decks
Installed power:	4 double-ended fire-tube boilers 6,803 ihp (5,073 kW)
Propulsion:	2 compound steam engines 600 tons coal, max
Speed:	18.3 knots (24.3 mch; 33.9 kmh; 21.1 mph)
Boats & landing craft carried:	5 lifeboats
Complement:	296
Armament:	2 × 11 pl (10 in; 254 mm)/30 6 × 6.5 pl (6 in; 152 mm)/26 2 × 2.5 pl (2.25 in; 57 mm) guns 5 × 1.6 pl (1.5 in; 37 mm) revolving cannon
Armor:	Up to 1 pl (1 in; 25 mm) deck armor

BIC Atlácatl was a protected cruiser and the first built in the Atlácatl-class. The ship was the first protected cruiser ever constructed. It was ordered December 1879 by the Creeperian Navy during the first years of the Second Senvarian Insurgency. It was laid down in April 1880, launched in June 1882, and completed in July 1883, being commissioned by the Creeperian Navy on 1 August 1883.

Design

Design of the BIC Atlácatl.

Creeperian service

Second Senvarian Insurgency

BIC Atlácatl at the Battle of Concón, 1885.

BIC Atlácatl at the Siege of Hanvar, 1887.

See also

• BIC Atlácatl (disambiguation)