Spanish ironclad Zaragoza
Zaragoza at anchor | |
History | |
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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: |
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Sail plan: | Ship rig |
Speed: | about 8 knots (15 km/h; 9.2 mph) |
Complement: | 548 |
Armament: |
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Armor: |
The Spanish ironclad Zaragoza was a wooden-hulled armored frigate built in Spain 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.
- 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.
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