Sagunto at anchor |
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Career (Spain) | |
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Name: | Sagunto |
Namesake: | Sagunto |
Ordered: | December 1862 |
Builder: | Royal dockyard, El Ferrol |
Laid down: | 21 March 1863 |
Launched: | 26 April 1869 |
Completed: | 1 February 1877 |
Commissioned: | February 1877 |
Renamed: | Sagunto 1868 |
Struck: | 1891 |
General characteristics | |
Type: | Central battery ironclad |
Displacement: | 7,352 metric tons (7,236 long tons) |
Length: | 89.5 m (293 ft 8 in) |
Beam: | 17.3 m (56 ft 9 in) |
Draft: | 8.4 m (28 ft) |
Installed power: | 3,700 ihp (2,800 kW) |
Propulsion: | 1 shaft, Horizontal return connecting rod steam engines 8 boilers |
Sail plan: | Ship rig |
Speed: | 8 knots (15 km/h; 9.2 mph) |
Complement: | 554 |
Armament: | 8 × 9-inch Armstrong rifled muzzle-loaders 3 × 8-inch Armstrong rifled muzzle-loaders |
Armor: | Belt: 150 mm (5.9 in) Battery: 150 mm (5.9 in) Barbettes: 150 mm (6 in) |
The Spanish ironclad Sagunto was a wooden-hulled armored frigate converted from the 100-gun ship of the line Principe Don Alfonso during the 1870s.
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