NUMANCIA
Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2012 10:57 pm
Built as a broadside ironclad frigate by the Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée, La Seyne, France for the Royal Spanish Navy.
22 April 1862 laid down.
19 November 1863 launched as NUMANCIA, named after the Siege of Numantia.
Displacement 7,305 tons. Dim. 96.08 x 17.34 x 8.87m., draught 7.9m.
Powered by one compound steam engine, 3,770 ihp, one shaft, speed 12 knots.
Bunker capacity 1,100 tons coal.
Ship rigged. Fitted with a ram bow.
Armament: 34 – 68pdr. guns.
Crew 590.
17 December 1864 completed. Building cost 8,322,252 pesetas.
After completing sailed to Cartagena.
After arrival there command was taken by Captain D. Casto Méndez Nunez and joined the Spanish Pacific Fleet
04 February 1865 she left from the port of Cadiz to join the Pacific Fleet, she was the first ironclad to circumnavigate the world, returned in Cadiz on 20 September 1867 after a voyage of 2 years, 7 months and 6 days.
She took part in almost every noteworthy event of the last third of that century.
02 May 1866 as the Spanish flagship she took part in the Battle of El Callao.
Took part in the bombardment of Valparaiso in 1866.
1896 Was she sent to Toulon to refit her in a Coast Guard vessel, she received new boilers and a new armament, her rigging was replaced by two small masts.
Armament 4 – 6.4 inch QF, 6 – 5.5 inch QF, 3 – 4.7 inch QF. 12 MG and 2 – torpedo tubes.
During the conflict with the USA she was not ready and took not part in the conflict.
After the war used for training.
1910 Was she used as a floating station in Tangier until 1912.
1912 After a mutiny on the ship at Tangier a fireman was sentenced to dead and eight sailors got life imprisonment.
1912 Struck from the navy list.
Sold to a shipbreaker in Bilbao.
Under tow from Cadiz to Bilbao she sank off the coast of Portugal on 17 December 1916.
Spain 1964 2p50 sg1669, scott1257.
Chile 2017 label
Source: http://www.revistanaval.com/armada Wikipedia. http://www.miramarshipindex.org.nz
22 April 1862 laid down.
19 November 1863 launched as NUMANCIA, named after the Siege of Numantia.
Displacement 7,305 tons. Dim. 96.08 x 17.34 x 8.87m., draught 7.9m.
Powered by one compound steam engine, 3,770 ihp, one shaft, speed 12 knots.
Bunker capacity 1,100 tons coal.
Ship rigged. Fitted with a ram bow.
Armament: 34 – 68pdr. guns.
Crew 590.
17 December 1864 completed. Building cost 8,322,252 pesetas.
After completing sailed to Cartagena.
After arrival there command was taken by Captain D. Casto Méndez Nunez and joined the Spanish Pacific Fleet
04 February 1865 she left from the port of Cadiz to join the Pacific Fleet, she was the first ironclad to circumnavigate the world, returned in Cadiz on 20 September 1867 after a voyage of 2 years, 7 months and 6 days.
She took part in almost every noteworthy event of the last third of that century.
02 May 1866 as the Spanish flagship she took part in the Battle of El Callao.
Took part in the bombardment of Valparaiso in 1866.
1896 Was she sent to Toulon to refit her in a Coast Guard vessel, she received new boilers and a new armament, her rigging was replaced by two small masts.
Armament 4 – 6.4 inch QF, 6 – 5.5 inch QF, 3 – 4.7 inch QF. 12 MG and 2 – torpedo tubes.
During the conflict with the USA she was not ready and took not part in the conflict.
After the war used for training.
1910 Was she used as a floating station in Tangier until 1912.
1912 After a mutiny on the ship at Tangier a fireman was sentenced to dead and eight sailors got life imprisonment.
1912 Struck from the navy list.
Sold to a shipbreaker in Bilbao.
Under tow from Cadiz to Bilbao she sank off the coast of Portugal on 17 December 1916.
Spain 1964 2p50 sg1669, scott1257.
Chile 2017 label
Source: http://www.revistanaval.com/armada Wikipedia. http://www.miramarshipindex.org.nz