Spanish ironclad Vitoria

History
Drawing of Vitoria
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:	1 shaft, Trunk steam engine 8 boilers
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:	4 × 9-inch Armstrong rifled muzzle-loaders 3 × 8-inch Armstrong rifled muzzle-loaders 14 × convert
Armor:	Belt: 140 mm (5.5 in) Battery: 120 mm (4.7 in) Barbettes: 114 mm (4 in)

The Spanish ironclad Vitoria was an iron-hulled armored frigate bought from England during the 1860s.

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.
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.

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

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 10/26/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.