Spanish ironclad Arapiles
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 Arapiles at anchor | |
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| Name: | Arapiles |
| Namesake: | Battle of Salamanca |
| Builder: | Green, Blackwall, London |
| Laid down: | June 1861 |
| Launched: | 17 October 1864 |
| Completed: | 1865 |
| Commissioned: | 1868 |
| Struck: | 1879 |
| Fate: | Broken up 1883 |
| General characteristics (as built) | |
| Type: | Broadside ironclad |
| Displacement: | 5,470 metric tons (5,380 long tons) |
| Length: | 85.2 m (279 ft 6 in) |
| Beam: | 16.4 m (53 ft 10 in) |
| Draft: | 7.8 m (26 ft) |
| Installed power: | 2,400 ihp (1,800 kW) |
| Propulsion: |
1 shaft, Trunk steam engine 6 boilers |
| Sail plan: | Ship rig |
| Speed: | about 8 knots (15 km/h; 9.2 mph) |
| Complement: | 537 |
| Armament: |
2 × 9-inch Armstrong rifled muzzle-loaders 5 × 8-inch Armstrong rifled muzzle-loaders 10 × 68-pounder smoothbore guns |
| Armor: |
Belt: 114 mm (4.5 in) Battery: 100 mm (3.9 in) |
The Spanish ironclad Arapiles was a wooden-hulled armored frigate bought from England during the 1860s.
Footnotes
References
- Brassey, Thomas (1888). The Naval Annual 1887. Portsmouth, England: J. Griffin. OCLC 669097244.
- Gardiner, Robert, ed. (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. Greenwich: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-8317-0302-4.
- de Saint Hubert, Christian (1984). "Early Spanish Steam Warships, Part II". Warship International (Toledo, OH: International Naval Records Organization) XXI (1): 21–45. ISSN 0043-0374.
- Silverstone, Paul H. (1984). Directory of the World's Capital Ships. New York: Hippocrene Books. ISBN 0-88254-979-0.
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