Spanish ironclad Zaragoza

Zaragoza at anchor
History
Spain
Name: Zaragoza
Namesake: Battle of Saragossa
Ordered: October 1860
Builder: Royal dockyard, Cartagena, Spain
Laid down: 4 October 1861
Launched: 6 February 1867
Completed: June 1868
Commissioned: 1868
Struck: 1896
General characteristics
Type: Central battery ironclad
Displacement: 5,650 metric tons (5,560 long tons)
Length: 85.4 m (280 ft 2 in)
Beam: 16.6 m (54 ft 6 in)
Draft: 7.5 m (25 ft)
Installed power: 3,000 ihp (2,200 kW)
Propulsion:
Sail plan: Ship rig
Speed: about 8 knots (15 km/h; 9.2 mph)
Complement: 548
Armament:
  • 4 × 280 mm (11 in) smoothbore guns
  • 3 × 220 mm (9 in) smoothbore guns
  • 14 × 68-pounder smoothbore guns
Armor:

The Spanish ironclad Zaragoza was a wooden-hulled armored frigate built in Spain during the 1860s.

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