| Spanish ironclad Sagunto | |
|---|---|
 Sagunto at anchor | |
| Career (Spain) |  |
| Name: | Sagunto |
| Namesake: | Sagunto |
| Ordered: | December 1862 |
| Builder: | Royal dockyard, El Ferrol |
| Laid down: | 21 March 1863 |
| Launched: | 26 April 1869 |
| Completed: | 1 February 1877 |
| Commissioned: | February 1877 |
| Renamed: | Sagunto 1868 |
| Struck: | 1891 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Central battery ironclad |
| Displacement: | 7,352 metric tons (7,236 long tons) |
| Length: | 89.5 m (293 ft 8 in) |
| Beam: | 17.3 m (56 ft 9 in) |
| Draft: | 8.4 m (28 ft) |
| Installed power: | 3,700 ihp (2,800 kW) |
| Propulsion: |
1 shaft, Horizontal return connecting rod steam engines 8 boilers |
| Sail plan: | Ship rig |
| Speed: | 8 knots (15 km/h; 9.2 mph) |
| Complement: | 554 |
| Armament: |
8 × 9-inch Armstrong rifled muzzle-loaders 3 × 8-inch Armstrong rifled muzzle-loaders |
| Armor: |
Belt: 150 mm (5.9 in) Battery: 150 mm (5.9 in) Barbettes: 150 mm (6 in) |
The Spanish ironclad Sagunto was a wooden-hulled armored frigate converted from the 100-gun ship of the line Principe Don Alfonso during the 1870s.
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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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