Spanish ironclad Numancia

Numancia at anchor
Career
Name:	Numancia
Namesake:	Numantia
Builder:	Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée, La Seyne, France
Laid down:	22 April 1862
Launched:	19 November 1863
Completed:	17 December 1864
Commissioned:	1865
Refit:	1897–98
Struck:	1912
Fate:	Sank while under tow, 17 December 1916
General characteristics (as built)
Type:	Broadside ironclad
Displacement:	7,305 metric tons (7,190 long tons)
Length:	95.6 m (313 ft 8 in)
Beam:	17.3 m (56 ft 9 in)
Draft:	7.7 m (25 ft)
Installed power:	3,770 ihp (2,810 kW)
Propulsion:	1 shaft, 1 Horizontal return connecting rod compound steam engine 8 boilers
Sail plan:	Ship rig
Speed:	about 13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph)
Range:	3,000 nautical miles (5,600 km; 3,500 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement:	561
Armament:	40 × 68-pounder smoothbore guns
Armor:	Belt: 100–130 mm (3.9–5.1 in) Battery: 120 mm (4.7 in)

The Spanish ironclad Numancia was an armored frigate bought from France during the 1860s. The name was derived from the Siege of Numantia, in which Roman expansion in the Iberian Peninsula was resisted. She was the first ironclad to circumnavigate the Earth.-

"Enloricata navis quae primo terram circuivit"

She saw service in the Chincha Islands War and Cantonal Revolution.

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. 
• Pastor y Fernandez de Checa, M. (1976). "The Spanish Ironclads Numancia, Vitoria and Pelayo, Pt. II". F. P. D. S. Newsletter (Akron, Ohio: F. P. D. S.) IV (1): 3–5. 
• 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. 
• "Spanish Ironclads Numancia and Vitoria". Warship International (Toledo, Ohio: International Naval Records Club) VIII (3): 287–89. 1970. 

External links

• Media related to Numancia (1863) at Wikimedia Commons
• La Marina Blindada en el Siglo XIX

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