| Spanish ironclad Méndez Núñez | |
|---|---|
 Mendez Nuñez at anchor | |
| Career (Spain) |  |
| 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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References[]
- Brassey, Thomas (1888). The Naval Annual 1887. Portsmouth, England: J. Griffin. OCLC 669097244. http://books.google.com/books?id=RhYAAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false.
- 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". Toledo, OH: International Naval Records Organization. pp. 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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