Spanish ironclad Zaragoza

The ironclad Zaragoza was a Spanish Navy wooden-hulled armored frigate commissioned in 1868. She later served as a training ship and was stricken in 1896.

Zaragoza at anchor
History
Spain
Name: Zaragoza
Namesake: Battle of Saragossa
Ordered: October 1860
Builder: Arsenales de la Armada, Cartagena, Spain
Cost: 7,000,000 pesetas
Laid down: 4 October 1861
Launched: 6 February 1867
Completed: June 1868
Commissioned: July 1868
Struck: 1896
Fate: Scuttled, 1899
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:
  • 6 boilers
  • 3,000 ihp (2,200 kW)
Propulsion: 1 shaft; trunk steam engine
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 (8.7 in) smoothbore guns
  • 14 × 68-pounder smoothbore guns
Armor:

Construction and commissioning

Zaragoza was laid down by Arsenales de la Armada at Cartagena, Spain, on 4 October 1861. Her construction period was lengthy, and she was not launched until 6 February 1867. She was completed in June 1868 and commissioned in July 1868.[1]

Service history

Zaragoza saw action in the Third Carlist War of 1872–1876.[2] She underwent a major overhaul in 1889.[1] In 1892, she was relegated to use as a torpedo training ship at Cartagena.[1] She was stricken in 1896 and scuttled in 1899.[1]

Footnotes
  1. Mitiuckov, Nick, "Spanish Training Ships," spanamwar.com Retrieved March 8, 2019
  2. naval-encyclopedia.com Armada Espanola

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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