Spanish ironclad Sagunto

Sagunto at anchor
History
Spain
Name: Sagunto
Namesake: Sagunto
Ordered: December 1862
Builder: Royal dockyard, Ferrol
Laid down: 21 March 1863
Launched: 26 April 1869
Completed: 1 February 1877
Commissioned: February 1877
Renamed: Sagunto 1868
Struck: 1891
General characteristics
Type: Central battery ironclad
Displacement: 7,352 metric tons (7,236 long tons)
Length: 89.5 m (293 ft 8 in)
Beam: 17.3 m (56 ft 9 in)
Draft: 8.4 m (28 ft)
Installed power: 3,700 ihp (2,800 kW)
Propulsion:
Sail plan: Ship rig
Speed: 8 knots (15 km/h; 9.2 mph)
Complement: 554
Armament:
Armor:

The Spanish ironclad Sagunto was a wooden-hulled armored frigate converted from the 100-gun ship of the line Principe Don Alfonso during the 1870s.

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