Spanish ironclad Sagunto

History
Sagunto at anchor
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:	1 shaft, Horizontal return connecting rod steam engines 8 boilers
Sail plan:	Ship rig
Speed:	8 knots (15 km/h; 9.2 mph)
Complement:	554
Armament:	8 × 9-inch Armstrong rifled muzzle-loaders 3 × 8-inch Armstrong rifled muzzle-loaders
Armor:	Belt: 150 mm (5.9 in) Battery: 150 mm (5.9 in) Barbettes: 150 mm (6 in)

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.

Footnotes

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.

Ironclads of Spain

Broadside ironclads	Numancia Tetuán Arapiles Vitoria

Central battery ironclads	Zaragoza Sagunto Méndez Núñez

Monitors and Floating batteries	Puigcerdá Duque de Tetuán

List of ironclads of Spain

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