Spanish ironclad Vitoria
 Drawing of Vitoria | |
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| Name: | Vitoria |
| Namesake: | Battle of Vitoria |
| Ordered: | December 1862 |
| Builder: | Thames Ironworks, Blackwall, London |
| Laid down: | January 1863 |
| Launched: | 4 November 1865 |
| Completed: | May 1867 |
| Commissioned: | 1868 |
| Struck: | 1912 |
| Fate: | Broken up 1912 |
| General characteristics (as built) | |
| Type: | Broadside ironclad |
| Displacement: | 7,250 metric tons (7,140 long tons) |
| Length: | 96.8 m (317 ft 7 in) |
| Beam: | 17.3 m (56 ft 9 in) |
| Draft: | 7.7 m (25 ft) |
| Installed power: | 4,500 ihp (3,400 kW) |
| Propulsion: | 1 shaft, Trunk steam engine 8 boilers |
| Sail plan: | Ship rig |
| Speed: | about 8 knots (15 km/h; 9.2 mph) |
| Range: | 2,400 nmi (4,400 km; 2,800 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
| Complement: | 561 |
| Armament: | 4 × 9-inch Armstrong rifled muzzle-loaders 3 × 8-inch Armstrong rifled muzzle-loaders 14 × convert |
| Armor: | Belt: 140 mm (5.5 in) Battery: 120 mm (4.7 in) Barbettes: 114 mm (4 in) |
The Spanish ironclad Vitoria was an iron-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.
- Pastor y Fernandez de Checa, M. (1977). "The Spanish Ironclads Numancia, Vitoria and Pelayo, Pt. II". F. P. D. S. Newsletter (Akron, Ohio: F. P. D. S.) V (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.
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