| Spanish ironclad Zaragoza | |
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Zaragoza.jpg Zaragoza at anchor | |
| Career (Spain) |  |
| Name: | Zaragoza |
| Namesake: | Battle of Saragossa |
| Ordered: | October 1860 |
| Builder: | Arsenales de la Armada, Cartagena, Spain |
| Cost: | 7,000,000 pesetas |
| Laid down: | 4 October 1861 |
| Launched: | 6 February 1867 |
| Completed: | June 1868 |
| Commissioned: | July 1868 |
| Struck: | 1896 |
| Fate: | Scuttled 1899 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Central battery ironclad |
| Displacement: | 5,650 metric tons (5,560 long tons) |
| Length: | 85.4 m (280 ft 2 in) |
| Beam: | 16.6 m (54 ft 6 in) |
| Draft: | 7.5 m (25 ft) |
| Installed power: | 3,000 ihp (2,200 kW) |
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| Sail plan: | Ship rig |
| Speed: | about 8 knots (15 km/h; 9.2 mph) |
| Complement: | 548 |
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The ironclad Zaragoza was a Spanish Navy wooden-hulled armored frigate commissioned in 1868. She later served as a training ship and was stricken in 1896.
Construction and commissioning[]
Zaragoza was laid down by Arsenales de la Armada at Cartagena, Spain, on 4 October 1861. Her construction period was lengthy, and she was not launched until 6 February 1867. She was completed in June 1868 and commissioned in July 1868.[1]
Service history[]
Zaragoza saw action in the Third Carlist War of 1872–1876.[2] She underwent a major overhaul in 1889.[1] In 1892, she was relegated to use as a torpedo training ship at Cartagena.[1] She was stricken in 1896 and scuttled in 1899.[1]
Footnotes[]
References[]
- Brassey, Thomas (1888). The Naval Annual 1887. Portsmouth, England: J. Griffin. OCLC 669097244. https://archive.org/details/brasseysannual00brasgoog.
- Gardiner, Robert, ed (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. Greenwich: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-8317-0302-4. https://archive.org/details/conwaysallworlds0000unse_l2e2.
- 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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