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Spanish ironclad Méndez Núñez
Mendez
Mendez Nuñez at anchor
Career (Spain) Armada Española Ensign
Name: Mendez Nuñez
Namesake: Admiral Casto Méndez Núñez
Builder: Royal dockyard, El Ferrol
Laid down: 22 September 1859 as frigate Resolución
Launched: 19 September 1861
Completed: 28 August 1862
Recommissioned: February 1870
Renamed: Mendez Nuñez 21 August 1870
Refit: 1867–70
Struck: 1886
Fate: Broken up 1896
General characteristics (as reconstructed)
Type: Central battery ironclad
Displacement: 3,382 metric tons (3,329 long tons)
Length: 72.5 m (237 ft 10 in)
Beam: 14.5 m (47 ft 7 in)
Draft: 6.7 m (22 ft)
Installed power: 2,250 ihp (1,680 kW)
Propulsion: 1 shaft, Trunk steam engine
4 boilers
Sail plan: Ship rig
Speed: about 8 knots (15 km/h; 9.2 mph)
Complement: 417
Armament: 4 × 9-inch Armstrong rifled muzzle-loaders
2 × 8-inch Armstrong rifled muzzle-loaders
Armor: Belt: 127 mm (5.0 in)
Battery: 127 mm (5.0 in)

The Spanish ironclad Méndez Núñez was a wooden-hulled armored frigate converted from the 38-gun frigate Resolución during the 1860s.

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