Bolívar (ship, 1899)
 Gunboat Bolívar
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The Bolívar was a Venezuelan gunboat , ex. Galicia , which was captured by the Royal Navy at the beginning of the Venezuela crisis in 1902 and temporarily put into British service to block the coast of Venezuela. Spanish sister ships were the lead ship Temerario that Veloz that Audaz and Rápido .
history
The Galicia was laid down in 1889 and entered the service of the Armada Española in 1891 as a torpedo gunboat , in Spanish canoñero torpedero . No extraordinary events are known from her period of service. During the Spanish-American War it was used in 1898 to defend the port of Havana .
As a result of the war was Galicia sold to Venezuela in 1899 and there after the national hero Simón Bolívar in Bolívar renamed. At this time, President Cipriano Castro built up a flotilla through purchases from abroad to intercept rebels against his rule, most of whom invaded by sea from the Dutch colony of Curaçao in Venezuela. B. the filibuster steamer Ban Righ . Also from Spain, the gunboat Diego Velázquez was bought at the same time and put into service as Miranda .
At the beginning of the fighting in the Venezuela crisis , the Bolívar was captured on December 10, 1902 near Trinidad by the British cruiser HMS Charybdis and put into service under the British flag of war . After the end of the conflict in February 1903, it was handed over to the Venezuelan authorities. When it was removed from the list of warships is unclear. In 1914 it was still listed in Weyer's fleet pocket book.
photos
Gunboat Galicia
Gunboat Bolivar
See also
literature
- Bruno Weyer (ed.): Taschenbuch der Kriegsflotten , XV. Born 1914, Munich 1914, 116f.
- Adrian J. English: Armed Forces of Latin America. Their Histories, Development, Present Strength and Military Potential , 2nd ed. London (Jane's) 1985, pp. 453f.