Spanish ironclad Arapiles

Arapiles at anchor
Career
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.

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