BIC Atlácatl (1883)

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

BIC Atlácatl

A drawing of BIC Atlácatl, c. 1884.
History
Creeperopolis
Name:	BIC Atlácatl
Namesake:	Atlácatl of Amacha, BIC Atlácatl (1838)
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 1922
Nickname(s):	Atlá
Status:	Sold to Rakeo, 8 December 1924
Rakeo
Name:	BCC Tassis
Namesake:	Samuel Molina Tassis
Owner:	Rakeoian Navy
Port of registry:	Paragon
Acquired:	8 December 1924
Commissioned:	20 July 1926
Refit:	5 January 1945 as an auxiliary assistance ship
Decommissioned:	31 December 1955
Fate:	Scrapped, February 1958
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, later known as the BCC Tassis, 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.

In December 1924, the ship was sold to Rakeo for X pesos. The ship was scrapped at Paragon between 18 February 1958 and 28 October 1962.

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)