Liberal (1884)

**Liberal**
Ship data
flag	Portugal
Ship type	Gunboat
class	Zaire- class
Shipyard	Laydrs, UK
Commissioning	1884
Decommissioning	1910
Whereabouts	Stranded
Ship dimensions and crew
length	42.56 m ( Lüa )
width	7.50 m
Draft	Max. 3.43 m
displacement	604 t
crew	111
Machine system
machine	Steam engine
Machine ; performance	500 hp
Rigging and rigging
Rigging	Barque
Armament
	2 × cannon 15 cm L / 30 ; 2 × cannon 10 cm L / 35; 2 × machine guns 11 mm;

The gunboat Liberal was a Portuguese Navy warship that entered service in 1884.

Ship data

The gunboats Zaire and Liberal

The Liberal was next to her sister ship Zaire one of the two boats Zaire class. Both gunboats were built in England. They had a displacement of 558 t , were 42.56 m long, 7.75 m wide and had a draft of 3.43 m. The steam engine had an output of 500 hp.

history

The ship was mainly used in the colonies of Angola , Mozambique , Portuguese India , Ajudá , São Tomé and Príncipe and Macau .

In 1897 the Liberal was used against the Namarrais and Gaza in Mozambique .

The Liberal was lost at the Angolan Ambriz after being stranded there on June 22, 1910. All persons on board, including the Governor General Colonel José Augusto A. Roçadas and a combat unit that was to be stationed south of Ambriz, could be rescued by the steamer Vilhena . The transporter África , which actually served as a depot ship in Luanda , then picked up the rescued.

The Liberal was stranded several times before, but without major damage; for example in March 1902 at Baixo de Pinda , in the north of the coast of Mozambique, and in October of the same year again on the geyser bank , northeast of Madagascar .

Web links

Photos of the Zaire and Liberal

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h O Ocidente: O naufrágio da canhoneira “Liberal” , nº 1134, de 30 de Junho de 1910, 30 June 1910, from: Reis, A. Estácio dos: Os Navios d'O Occidente , Edições Culturais de Marinha, Gradiva Publicações, Lda., Lisbon 2001, on Navios e navegadores, 3 May 2015 , accessed on 25 May 2016.
↑ ^a ^b ^c Macau Antigo Blog: "Navetas" ... "Naus" .. "Fragatas" ... "Corvetas" ... "Galeras", "Brigues", etc ... , May 27, 2010 , accessed on May 25, 2016.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Forum Defesa: Classe ZAIRE , accessed on August 4, 2014.
↑ Mário Matos e Lemos, Alexandre Ramires: O primeiro fotógrafo de Guerra Português: José Henriques de Mello: Guiné: campanhas de 1907-1908 , p. 7, Coimbra 2008.

[NN-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h O Ocidente: O naufrágio da canhoneira “Liberal” , nº 1134, de 30 de Junho de 1910, 30 June 1910, from: Reis, A. Estácio dos: Os Navios d'O Occidente , Edições Culturais de Marinha, Gradiva Publicações, Lda., Lisbon 2001, on Navios e navegadores, 3 May 2015 , accessed on 25 May 2016.

[MAB-2] Macau Antigo Blog: "Navetas" ... "Naus" .. "Fragatas" ... "Corvetas" ... "Galeras", "Brigues", etc ... , May 27, 2010 , accessed on May 25, 2016.

[FD-3] Forum Defesa: Classe ZAIRE , accessed on August 4, 2014.

[4] Mário Matos e Lemos, Alexandre Ramires: O primeiro fotógrafo de Guerra Português: José Henriques de Mello: Guiné: campanhas de 1907-1908 , p. 7, Coimbra 2008.