Spanish ironclad Zaragoza
 Zaragoza at anchor | |
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| Name: | Zaragoza |
| Namesake: | Battle of Saragossa |
| Ordered: | October 1860 |
| Builder: | Royal dockyard, Cartagena, Spain |
| Laid down: | 4 October 1861 |
| Launched: | 6 February 1867 |
| Completed: | June 1868 |
| Commissioned: | 1868 |
| Struck: | 1896 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Central battery ironclad |
| Displacement: | 5,650 metric tons (5,560 long tons) |
| Length: | 85.4 m (280 ft 2 in) |
| Beam: | 16.6 m (54 ft 6 in) |
| Draft: | 7.5 m (25 ft) |
| Installed power: | 3,000 ihp (2,200 kW) |
| Propulsion: | 1 shaft, Trunk steam engine 6 boilers |
| Sail plan: | Ship rig |
| Speed: | about 8 knots (15 km/h; 9.2 mph) |
| Complement: | 548 |
| Armament: | 4 × 280 mm (11 in) smoothbore guns 3 × 220 mm (9 in) smoothbore guns 14 × 68-pounder smoothbore guns |
| Armor: | Belt: 102–127 mm (4.0–5.0 in) Battery: 114 mm (4.5 in) Barbettes: 100 mm (4 in) |
The Spanish ironclad Zaragoza was a wooden-hulled armored frigate built in Spain 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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