Haitian gunboat La Liberté
![]() La Liberté, possibly under his Earl King name before its acquisition by the Haitian government | |
History | |
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Name | Earl King |
Laid down | 1909 |
Launched | 1910 |
Decommissioned | 1910 |
Fate | Acquired by Haitian Navy in same year. |
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Name | La Liberté |
Namesake | Liberty |
Acquired | 1910 |
Decommissioned | 1911 |
Homeport | Port-au-Prince |
Fate | Destroyed by explosion |
General characteristics | |
Type | |
Displacement | 500 t |
Length | 196 ft (60 m) |
Beam | 26 ft (7.9 m) |
Draft | 13 ft (4.0 m) |
Propulsion | steam engine, single screw |
Speed | 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
Armament |
La Liberté (trans: Liberty) was a gunboat of the Haitian Navy, which was in service from its acquisition in 1910 until 1911, when it suffered an explosion.
Service history
[edit]The vessel was originally launched as a cargo ship under the name of SS Earl King which was modified into a gunboat in 1911 during the Revolution in Haiti.[1] La Liberté, while in the port of Port-au-Prince, suffered an explosion from which only 23 crew members survived. The ship was declared a total loss.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ "Record of Current Events". The American Monthly Review of Reviews: 287–290. March 1911.
- ^ "Haitian Mutineers: To die Twenty-three survivors of gunboat Liberté". The New York Times. 1911. Retrieved 2 May 2022.