Canarias class cruiser
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Class overview | |
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Name: | Canarias |
Builders: | Sociedad Española de Construcción Naval in Ferrol |
Operators: | |
Preceded by: | Almirante Cervera Class |
Succeeded by: | N/A |
Planned: | 3 |
Completed: | 2 |
Cancelled: | 1 |
Active: | 0 |
Laid up: | 2 |
Lost: | 1 |
Retired: | 1 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type: | Canarias |
Type: | heavy cruiser |
Displacement: | Standard 10,670 tons |
Tons burthen: | Maximum 13,200 tons |
Length: | 636 ft |
Beam: | 64 ft |
Draught: | 21.4 ft |
Installed power: | 90.000 Cv. |
Propulsion: | 4 drafts |
Speed: | 33 knots (61 km/h) |
Range: | 8,000 nautical miles (15,000 km) at 15 knots (28 km/h) |
Complement: | 679 |
Crew: | over 1.000 |
Armament: |
Main Guns 8 × 8-inch (203 mm) guns on 4 turrets Secondary Battery 8 x 4.7-inch (119 mm) guns, 12 x 40 mm AA Guns, 3 x 20 mm AA Guns, 12 × 21-inch (533 mm) Torpedoes in triple tubes above water |
The Canarias class was a class of heavy cruiser of the Spanish Navy. Two ships of the class were completed in the 1930s. They were designed in the United Kingdom and were modified versions of the Royal Navy's County class cruiser. They were built in Spain by the Vickers-Armstrongs subsidiary Sociedad Española de Construcción Naval. The two ships completed, Canarias and Baleares, both saw service during the Spanish Civil War, the latter being sunk.