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|Ship country=Chilea
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|Ship name= ''Teniente Serrano''
|Ship original cost= £55,400
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|Ship ordered= 1895
|Ship builder= [[Laird Brothers]], Birkenhead, England
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|Ship launched= 16 May 1896
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|Ship class= {{sclass|Capitán Orella|destroyer|4}} [[Torpedo boat destroyer]]
|Ship displacement= 311 t
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|Ship length= {{cvt|64.9|m|ftin}} (pp)
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|Ship draught= {{cvt|1.79|m|ftin}}
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|Ship propulsion= {{cvt|6,250|hp|lk=on}}, VTE, 4 Normand boilers
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|Ship complement= 65
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'''''Teniente Serrano''''' was a [[torpedo boat destroyer]] commissioned by the [[Chilean Navy]] in 1896. It was built by [[Laird Brothers]] along with three other destroyers: ''Capitán Orella'', ''Capitán Muñoz Gamero'' and ''Guardiamarina Riquelme'' (later ''Lientur'').

They were steel-hulled torpedo boat destroyers with a turtleback forecastle and four funnels. These ships were, when built, the most advanced ships of their type in Latin America, closely related to contemporary British destroyers. On trials the vessels made {{convert|30.1|–|30.42|kn}} on {{convert|6313|–|6398|hp}}.

''Teniente Serrano'' was [[Ceremonial ship launching|launched]] at Laird's [[Birkenhead]] shipyard on 16 May 1896.<ref>{{cite news |title=Naval & Military Intelligence |newspaper=[[The Times]] |date=18 May 1896 |issue= 34893 |page=13}}</ref>

==See also==
* {{sclass|Serrano|destroyer}} which served with Chilean Navy from 1928 to 1967
* [[Argentine–Chilean naval arms race]]
* [[List of decommissioned ships of the Chilean Navy]]

==References==
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*Lyon, Hugh. "Chile." In ''Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905'', edited by Robert Gardiner, Roger Chesneau, and Eugene Kolesnik, 410–15. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1979. {{ISBN|0-8317-0302-4}}. {{oclc|4775646}}. {{closed access}}

==External links==
* Chilean Navy website, [https://archive.today/20130219215429/http://www.armada.cl/prontus_armada/site/artic/20090710/pags/20090710191444.html Destructor Serrano (1896)]

{{Capitán Orella class destroyers}}
{{Chilean destroyers}}

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