Canarias class cruiser

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Class overview
Name: Canarias
Builders: Sociedad Española de Construcción Naval in Ferrol
Operators: Españadefranco
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.

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