Design
Nisshin had an overall length of 111.73 m (366 ft 7 in), and beam of 18.71 m (61 ft 5 in), with a nominal displacement of 7,698 long tons (7,822 t) and draught of 7.4 m (24 ft 3 in). The ship was armored with Italian-made Terni Steel, similar to Krupp armor in performance.
She was powered by two vertical triple expansion steam engines made by Ansaldo, with eight cylindrical boilers, driving two screws. This type of boiler was considered obsolete at the time, but was used to provide standardization with other ships in the Argentine Navy. The engine had a nominal output of 14,896 shp (11,108 kW), which yielded a theoretical speed of 20.15 kn (23.19 mph; 37.32 km/h)) (although for practical purposes, Nisshin could only make around 18 kn (21 mph; 33 km/h)).
Her main armament consisted of four 20.3 cm/45 Type 41 naval guns, paired in gun turrets in the bow and stern. Secondary armament consisted of 14 QF 6 inch /40 naval guns and 10x QF 12 pounder 18 cwt naval gun and six QF 3 pounder Hotchkiss. She also had four 457-mm torpedo tubes.
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