| Spanish ironclad Tetuán | |
|---|---|
 Tetuan at anchor | |
| Career |  |
| Name: | Tetuán |
| Namesake: | Battle of Tétouan |
| Builder: | Royal dockyard, El Ferrol |
| Laid down: | May 1861 |
| Launched: | March 1863 |
| Completed: | January 1866 |
| Commissioned: | June 1866 |
| Fate: | Burned 20 December 1873 |
| General characteristics (as built) | |
| Type: | Broadside ironclad |
| Displacement: | 7,305 metric tons (7,190 long tons) |
| Length: | 87 m (285 ft 5 in) |
| Beam: | 17 m (55 ft 9 in) |
| Draft: | 6.6 m (22 ft) |
| Installed power: | 4,520 ihp (3,370 kW) |
| Propulsion: |
1 shaft, Trunk steam engine 8 boilers |
| Sail plan: | Ship rig |
| Speed: | about 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
| Complement: | 584 |
| Armament: | 40 × 68-pounder smoothbore guns |
| Armor: |
Belt: 130 mm (5.1 in) Battery: 130 mm (5.1 in) |
The Spanish ironclad Tetuán was an armored frigate built in the royal dockyard at El Ferrol 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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