Spanish ironclad Zaragoza

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Zaragoza at anchor
History
Armada Española EnsignSpain
NameZaragoza
NamesakeBattle of Saragossa
OrderedOctober 1860
BuilderArsenales de la Armada, Cartagena, Spain
Cost7,000,000 pesetas
Laid down4 October 1860
Launched6 February 1867
CompletedJune 1868
CommissionedJuly 1868
Stricken1896
FateScuttled, 1899
General characteristics (as built)
Type
Broadside ironclad
Displacement5,650 metric tons (5,560 long tons)
Length85.4 m (280 ft 2 in)
Beam16.6 m (54 ft 6 in)
Draft7.5 m (25 ft)
Installed power
  • 6
    boilers
  • 3,000 
    kW
    )
Propulsion1 shaft;
trunk steam engine
Sail plan
Ship rig
Speedabout 8 knots (15 km/h; 9.2 mph)
Complement548
Armament
  • 4 × 280 mm (11 in) smoothbore guns
  • 3 × 220 mm (8.7 in) smoothbore guns
  • 14 × 68-pounder smoothbore guns
Armor

The

naval register
in 1896.

Design and description

Zaragoza was 85.4 meters (280 ft 2 in) long at the waterline, had a beam of 16.6 meters (54 ft 6 in) and a draft of 7.5 meters (24 ft 7 in). She displaced 5,650 metric tons (5,561 long tons). Her crew consisted of 548 officers and enlisted men.[1]

The ship was fitted with a pair of imported

ship rig with a sail area of around 1,800–1,900 square meters (19,000–20,000 sq ft).[4]
The ship had a cost of 7,096,460 pesetas.

The frigate's main battery was originally intended to consist of thirty 200-millimeter (7.9 in) smoothbore guns mounted on the broadside, but she was completed with four 280-millimeter (11 in) and fourteen 200-millimeter guns, all smoothbores, on the gun deck. On the main deck above them were two 220-millimeter (8.7 in) smoothbores, one on each broadside, and another in the forecastle as the forward chase gun. By 1883, the smoothbore guns had been replaced by rifled muzzle-loading (RML) guns. Four Armstrong-Whitworth 229-millimeter (9.0 in) and eight 160-millimeter (6.3 in) Palliser guns were located on the gun deck and three 180-millimeter (7.1 in) Palliser guns were mounted on the main deck.[5]

Zaragosa had a complete wrought iron waterline belt that ranged in thickness from 102 to 130 millimeters (4.0 to 5.1 in). Above the belt, the guns, except for the chase gun, were protected by 110-millimeter (4.3 in) armor plates. The ends of the ship and the deck were unarmored.[2][6]

Construction and career

Zaragoza was

laid down by Arsenales de la Armada in Cartagena, 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.[7]

Zaragoza saw action in the Third Carlist War of 1872–1876.[8] She underwent a major overhaul in 1889.[7] In 1892, she was relegated to use as a torpedo training ship at Cartagena.[7] She was stricken in 1896 and scuttled in 1899.[7]

Footnotes

  1. ^ a b de Saint Humber, p. 23
  2. ^ a b Silverstone, p. 388
  3. ^ Lyon, p. 380
  4. ^ de Saint Hubert, pp. 22, 24
  5. ^ de Saint Hubert, p. 28
  6. ^ de Saint Hubert, pp. 22–23
  7. ^ a b c d Mitiuckov, Nick, "Spanish Training Ships," spanamwar.com Retrieved March 8, 2019
  8. ^ naval-encyclopedia.com Armada Espanola

References

  • OCLC 669097244
    .
  • de Saint Hubert, Christian (1984). "Early Spanish Steam Warships, Part II". Warship International. XXI (1): 21–45.
    ISSN 0043-0374
    .
  • Lyon, Hugh (1979). "Spain". In Chesneau, Roger & Kolesnik, Eugene M. (eds.). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. Greenwich, UK: Conway Maritime Press. pp. 380–386.
    ISBN 0-8317-0302-4
    .
  • Silverstone, Paul H. (1984). Directory of the World's Capital Ships. New York: Hippocrene Books.
    ISBN 0-88254-979-0
    .
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