Spanish ironclad Vitoria

Drawing of Vitoria
History
Spain
Name:	Vitoria
Namesake:	Battle of Vitoria
Ordered:	December 1862
Builder:	Thames Ironworks, Blackwall, London
Laid down:	January 1863
Launched:	4 November 1865
Completed:	May 1867
Commissioned:	1868
Struck:	1912
Fate:	Broken up 1912
General characteristics (as built)
Type:	Broadside ironclad
Displacement:	7,250 metric tons (7,140 long tons)
Length:	96.8 m (317 ft 7 in)
Beam:	17.3 m (56 ft 9 in)
Draft:	7.7 m (25 ft)
Installed power:	4,500 ihp (3,400 kW)
Propulsion:	1 shaft, Trunk steam engine 8 boilers
Sail plan:	Ship rig
Speed:	about 8 knots (15 km/h; 9.2 mph)
Range:	2,400 nmi (4,400 km; 2,800 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement:	561
Armament:	4 × 9-inch Armstrong rifled muzzle-loaders 3 × 8-inch Armstrong rifled muzzle-loaders 14 × convert
Armor:	Belt: 140 mm (5.5 in) Battery: 120 mm (4.7 in) Barbettes: 114 mm (4 in)

The Spanish ironclad Vitoria was an iron-hulled armored frigate bought from England during the 1860s.

Footnotes

References

• Brassey, Thomas (1888). The Naval Annual 1887. Portsmouth, England: J. Griffin. OCLC 669097244.
• Gardiner, Robert, ed. (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. Greenwich: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-8317-0302-4.
• Pastor y Fernandez de Checa, M. (1977). "The Spanish Ironclads Numancia, Vitoria and Pelayo, Pt. II". F. P. D. S. Newsletter (Akron, Ohio: F. P. D. S.) V (1): 3–5.
• de Saint Hubert, Christian (1984). "Early Spanish Steam Warships, Part II". Warship International (Toledo, OH: International Naval Records Organization) XXI (1): 21–45. ISSN 0043-0374.
• Silverstone, Paul H. (1984). Directory of the World's Capital Ships. New York: Hippocrene Books. ISBN 0-88254-979-0.
• "Spanish Ironclads Numancia and Vitoria". Warship International (Toledo, Ohio: International Naval Records Club) VIII (3): 287–89. 1970.

External links

• La Marina Blindada en el Siglo XIX