Spanish ironclad Vitoria
Drawing of Vitoria | |
History | |
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Spain | |
Name: | Vitoria |
Namesake: | Battle of Vitoria |
Ordered: | December 1862 |
Builder: | Thames Ironworks, Blackwall, London |
Laid down: | January 1863 |
Launched: | 4 November 1865 |
Completed: | May 1867 |
Commissioned: | 1868 |
Struck: | 1912 |
Fate: | Broken up 1912 |
General characteristics (as built) | |
Type: | Broadside ironclad |
Displacement: | 7,250 metric tons (7,140 long tons) |
Length: | 96.8 m (317 ft 7 in) |
Beam: | 17.3 m (56 ft 9 in) |
Draft: | 7.7 m (25 ft) |
Installed power: | 4,500 ihp (3,400 kW) |
Propulsion: |
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Sail plan: | Ship rig |
Speed: | about 8 knots (15 km/h; 9.2 mph) |
Range: | 2,400 nmi (4,400 km; 2,800 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
Complement: | 561 |
Armament: |
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Armor: |
The Spanish ironclad Vitoria was an iron-hulled armored frigate bought from England 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.
- Pastor y Fernandez de Checa, M. (1977). "The Spanish Ironclads Numancia, Vitoria and Pelayo, Pt. II". F. P. D. S. Newsletter. Akron, Ohio: F. P. D. S. V (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.
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