Spanish ironclad Numancia
 Numancia at anchor | |
| History | |
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| 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: | |
| 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: | |
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. 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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