Spanish cruiser Rapido
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Rapido was an auxiliary cruiser that served in the Spanish Navy during the Spanish–American War in 1898. Before her Spanish Navy service, she served as the commercial passenger ship SS Columbia for the Hamburg America Line from 1889 to 1898. She returned to commercial service as Columbia with Hamburg America from 1899 to 1904, but early in 1904 the Imperial Russian Navy purchased her for service as the auxiliary cruiser Terek during the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905.
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SS Columbia | |
History | |
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German Empire | |
Name | Columbia |
Owner | Hamburg America Line |
Operator | Hamburg America line |
Builder | Laird Brothers, Birkenhead, England |
Yard number | V0564 |
Launched | 27 February 1889 |
Fate | Sold to Spanish Navy 8 April 1898 |
Acquired | Purchased from Spanish Navy late 1898 or 1899 |
Fate | Sold to Imperial Russian Navy early 1904 |
Spain | |
Name | Rapido |
Acquired | 8 April 1898 |
Commissioned | 20 April 1898 |
Fate | Sold to Hamburg America Line late 1898 or 1899 |
Russian Empire | |
Name | Terek |
Acquired | Early 1904 |
Commissioned | 25 August 1904 |
Stricken | December 1906 |
Fate | Scrapped 1907 |
General characteristics (Columbia as built) | |
Type | Passenger ship |
Tonnage | 7,241[1] or 7,383[2] gross register tons |
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Beam | 17.0 m (55.8 ft)[1] |
Propulsion | Triple expansion engines, 2 screws, auxiliary sails[2] |
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Capacity | |
Notes | 3 masts, 3 funnels[2] |
General characteristics (as Rapido) | |
Type | Auxiliary cruiser |
Displacement | 9,500 tons[3] |
Length | 145 m (475 ft 9 in)[3] |
Beam | 16.5 m (54 ft 2 in)[3] |
Draft | 10.8 m (35 ft 5 in)[3] |
Propulsion | 12,500 horsepower (9,321 kW), twin screws[3] |
Speed | 19 knots (35 km/h; 22 mph)[3] |
Complement | 320 |
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General characteristics (as Terek) | |
Type | Auxiliary cruiser |
Displacement | 10,000 tons |
Length | 139.9 m (459 ft 0 in) |
Beam | 17.1 m (56 ft 1 in) |
Propulsion | 13,300 hp (9,918 kW) |
Speed | 19 knots (35 km/h; 22 mph) |
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