Zaragoza at anchor
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History | |
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Spain | |
Name | Zaragoza |
Namesake | Battle of Saragossa |
Ordered | October 1860 |
Builder | Arsenales de la Armada, Cartagena, Spain |
Cost | 7,000,000 pesetas |
Laid down | 4 October 1860 |
Launched | 6 February 1867 |
Completed | June 1868 |
Commissioned | July 1868 |
Stricken | 1896 |
Fate | Scuttled, 1899 |
General characteristics (as built) | |
Type | Broadside ironclad |
Displacement | 5,650 metric tons (5,560 long tons) |
Length | 85.4 m (280 ft 2 in) |
Beam | 16.6 m (54 ft 6 in) |
Draft | 7.5 m (25 ft) |
Installed power | |
Propulsion | 1 shaft; trunk steam engine |
Sail plan | Ship rig |
Speed | about 8 knots (15 km/h; 9.2 mph) |
Complement | 548 |
Armament |
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Armor |
The ironclad Zaragoza was a Royal Spanish Navy (Armada Real) wooden-hulled armored frigate completed in 1868. She later served as a training ship and was stricken from the naval register in 1896.