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Spanish cruiser Cristobal Colon (1887)
Infanta Isabel class cruiser
An unidentified Velasco-class (here called "Infanta Isabel-class") cruiser in U.S. waters during the 1880s or 1890s, showing the appearance of Cristóbal Colón
Career Armada Española Ensign
Name: Cristóbal Colón
Namesake: Christopher Columbus
Builder: La Carraca shipyard, Cadiz, Spain
Launched: 1887
Completed: 1888 or 1889
Fate: Lost October 1895
General characteristics
Class & type: Velasco-class
Type: unprotected cruiser
Displacement: 1,152 tons
Length: 210 ft 0 in (64.01 m)
Beam: 32 ft 0 in (9.75 m)
Draft: 13 ft 8 in (4.17 m) maximum
Installed power: 1,500 ihp
Propulsion: 1-shaft, horizontal compound, 4-cylinder boilers
Sail plan: barque-rigged
Speed: 13 knots; made 15 knots on trials
Complement: 173 officers and enlisted
Armament: 4 x 4.7 in (120 mm) guns
2 × 6 pounder guns
1 x machine gun
2 × 14 inch (356 mm) torpedo tubes
Armor: none
Notes: 200 to 220 tons of coal (normal)

Cristóbal Colón was a Velasco-class unprotected cruiser of the Spanish Navy.

Technical Characteristics[]

Cristóbal Colón was built at La Carraca shipyard, Cadiz, Spain. Her keel was laid in 1883. She had one rather tall funnel. She had an iron hull and was rigged as a barque. She made 15 knots on trials, probably the highest speed attained by a cruiser of this class.

Operational history[]

Cristóbal Colón was sent to the Caribbean and foundered off Cuba in October 1895.

References[]

  • Chesneau, Roger, and Eugene M. Kolesnik, Eds. Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1860-1905. New York, New York: Mayflower Books Inc., 1979. ISBN 0-8317-0302-4.

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