BAP Puno
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BAP Puno (ABH-306) is a Peruvian Navy hospital ship on Lake Titicaca. Until 1976 she was called Yapura. She is named after the Yapura River (or Caqueta River) that flows into the Amazon River in Department of Loreto, Peru. The Yapura river was the former border between Peru and Colombia in the Amazonia. It was an iron steam ship commissioned (along with her sister ship Yavarí) by the Peruvian government in 1861 for use on the lake by the Peruvian Navy. She is one of the oldest operational iron-hulled ships in the world, and is the oldest first-line military ship.
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BAP Puno in her namesake port of Puno | |
History | |
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Peru | |
Name | Yapura (1872–1976) |
Namesake | Puno |
Owner | Peruvian Navy |
Ordered | 1861 |
Builder | Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company |
Laid down | 1861 |
Launched | 1872 |
Commissioned | May 18, 1872 |
Renamed | BAP Puno since 1976 |
Status | In service |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Yavarí class gunboat |
Displacement | 140 tons |
Length | 100 ft (30 m) |
Speed | 10 knots (19 km/h)[1] |
Notes | Capacity for 180 tonnes of cargo[1] |
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