Spanish cruiser Cristobal Colon (1887)
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| Name: | Cristobal Colon |
| Namesake: | Christopher Columbus |
| Builder: | Carraca, Spain |
| Launched: | 1887 |
| Completed: | 1888 or 1889 |
| Fate: | Lost October 1895 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Velasco-class |
| Type: | unprotected cruiser |
| Displacement: | 1,152 tons |
| Length: | 210 ft 0 in (64.0 m) |
| Beam: | 32 ft 0 in (9.8 m) |
| Draft: | 13 ft 8 in (4.2 m) maximum |
| Installed power: | 1,500 ihp |
| Propulsion: | 1-shaft, horizontal compound, 4-cylinder boilers |
| Sail plan: | barque-rigged |
| Speed: | 13 knots; made 15 knots on trials |
| Complement: | 173 officers and enlisted |
| Armament: | 4 x 4.7 in (120 mm) guns 2 × 6 pounder guns 1 x machine gun 2 × 14 inch (356 mm) torpedo tubes |
| Armor: | none |
| Notes: | 200 to 220 tons of coal (normal) |
Cristobal Colon was a Velasco-class unprotected cruiser of the Spanish Navy.
[edit] Technical Characteristics
Cristobal Colon was built at Carraca shipyard in Spain. Her keel was laid in 1883. She had one rather tall funnel. She had an iron hull and was rigged as a barque. She made 15 knots on trials, probably the highest speed attained by a cruiser of this class.
[edit] Operational History
Cristobal Colon was sent to the Caribbean and foundered off Cuba in October 1895.
[edit] References
- Chesneau, Roger, and Eugene M. Kolesnik, Eds. Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1860-1905. New York, New York: Mayflower Books Inc., 1979. ISBN 0831703024.
See Cristobal Colon for a later Spanish armored cruiser of the same name that fought in the Battle of Santiago de Cuba during the Spanish-American War.
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