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:	1 shaft, Trunk steam engine 6 boilers
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:	Belt: 102–127 mm (4.0–5.0 in) Battery: 114 mm (4.5 in) Barbettes: 100 mm (4 in)

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.

External links

• La Marina Blindada en el Siglo XIX