Sagunto at anchor
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History | |
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Spain | |
Name | Sagunto |
Namesake | Siege of Saguntum |
Ordered | March 1860 |
Builder | Reales Astilleros de Esteiro, Ferrol |
Laid down | 12 January 1861 |
Launched | 26 April 1869 |
Completed | 1 February 1877 |
Commissioned | February 1877 |
Renamed | Sagunto, 1868 |
Stricken | 1891 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Central-battery ironclad |
Displacement | 7,352 t (7,236 long tons) |
Length | 89.5 m (293 ft 8 in) (waterline) |
Beam | 17.3 m (56 ft 9 in) |
Draft | 8.4 m (28 ft) |
Installed power | |
Propulsion | 1 shaft, 2 compound-expansion steam engines |
Sail plan | Ship rig |
Speed | 12.5 knots (23.2 km/h; 14.4 mph) |
Complement | 554 |
Armament |
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Armor |
The Spanish ironclad Sagunto was a wooden-hulled armored frigate built for the Royal Spanish Navy (Armada Real) in the 1860s and 1870s. She was originally built as a large ship of the line, but was converted into a central-battery ironclad while still under construction. She was stricken from the naval register in 1891.