Destroyer Sánchez Barcaiztegui |
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| Name: | Sánchez Barcáiztegui |
| Namesake: | Victoriano Sánchez Barcáiztegui |
| Builder: | SECN, Naval Dockyard, Cartagena, Spain |
| Launched: | 1926 |
| Completed: | 1928 |
| Commissioned: | 1928 |
| Decommissioned: | 1 July 1964 |
| Fate: | Scrapped in 1965 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Churruca-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 1,650 t (1,620 long tons) (normal); 2,067 t (2,034 long tons) (maximum) |
| Length: | 101 m (331 ft 4 in) |
| Beam: | 9.6 m (31 ft 6 in) |
| Height: | 6.02 m (19 ft 9 in) |
| Draft: | 3.3 m (10 ft 10 in) |
| Installed power: | 42,000 shp (31,000 kW) |
| Propulsion: | 2 × Parsons geared steam turbines 4 × Yarrow boilers 2 × shafts |
| Speed: | 36 kn (67 km/h; 41 mph) |
| Range: | 5,000 nmi (9,300 km; 5,800 mi) at 10 kn (19 km/h; 12 mph) 3,100 nmi (5,700 km; 3,600 mi) at 14 kn (26 km/h; 16 mph) |
| Complement: | 160 |
| Armament: | 5 × 120 mm (4.7 in) L45 guns (5x1) 1 × 76.2 mm (3 in) anti-aircraft gun 4 × machine guns 6 × 533 mm (21 in) torpedo tubes (2x3) 2 × depth charge racks |
Sánchez Barcáiztegui was a Churruca-class destroyer of the Spanish Navy. She took part in the Spanish Civil War on the government side.
She was named in honor of Victoriano Sánchez Barcáiztegui, a Spanish Navy Teniente de Navío (lieutenant) who took part in the Battle of Callao and was killed in action in the Battle of Motrico during the Third Carlist War.
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Barcáiztegui was launched in Cartagena, Spain in 1926 and commissioned in 1928. She was anchored in Barcelona harbor in 1934, during which time she served as the prison for Manuel Azaña after the Asturian uprising.
When war broke out, the captain went over to the Nationalists, but the crew mutinied and took the ship to the Republican side.
Barcáiztegui took part in the blockade of the Gibraltar Strait, then joined a Republican task force (led by the battleship Jaime I, and including the cruisers Libertad and Cervantes, the destroyers Almirante Valdés, Almirante Antequera, Almirante Miranda, Alsedo, José Luis Díez, Lepanto, Lazaga, and three "C"-class submarines) penetrating the Cantabric Sea where Republican troops were isolated from the rest of Republican-controlled territories. All ships, except Ciscar, Jose Luis Diez, two "C"- and two "B"-class submarines, returned to the Mediterranean Sea.
Barcáiztegui took part in the Battle of Cape Palos, where she (in company with Almirante Antequera and Lepanto) engaged the cruiser Baleares, firing four torpedoes.[1]
On 5 March 1939, Barcáíztegui was seriously damaged by a bomb after being attacked by five Nationalist Savoia-Marchetti SM.79s medium bombers; the attack also damaged destroyers Alcalá Galiano and Lazaga.
Barcáiztegui was refloated in 1940, repaired by the Nationalists, and recommissioned, serving until decommissioned in 1964. She was scrapped in 1965.
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