Aragón 1879
| Name | No | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comp | Fate |
| Aragón | Arsenal de Cartagena | 1879 | 1881 | discarded 1905 | |||
| Navarra | Arsenal del Ferrol | 1881 | 1889 | TS 1899, discarded 1905 | |||
| Castilla | Arsenal de Cartagena | 1881 | 1886 | sunk 1.5.1898 |
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Displacement normal, t |
3289 |
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Displacement full, t |
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Length, m |
71.9 wl |
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Breadth, m |
13.4 |
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Draught, m |
7.19 max |
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No of shafts |
1 |
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Machinery |
1 3-cyl HC |
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Power, h. p. |
4400 |
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Max speed, kts |
14 |
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Fuel, t |
coal 460 |
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Endurance, nm(kts) |
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Armament |
8 x 1 - 203/15 Armstrong 9-ton 180pdr MLR |
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Complement |
389 - 392 |
Project history: Wooden-hulled barque-rigged vessels with two funnels and a ram bow; heavily and, clumsily built having been designed as ironclads. As completed they were armed wilh 8 203mm 180pdr Armstrong RML guns and were already obsolescent.
Modernizations: 1885, Aragón was armed with: 6 x 1 - 160/25 Hontoria M1879, 2 x 1 - 87/22 Krupp M1876, 4 x 1 - 75/24 Krupp M1883, 2 - 356 TT (beam)
1885, Navarra, Castilla were armed with: 4 x 1 - 149/32 Krupp M1880, 2 x 1 - 120/27 Krupp M1883, 2 x 1 - 87/22 Krupp M1876, 4 x 1 - 75/24 Krupp M1883, 2 - 356 TT (beam)
Naval service: Castilla was sunk 1.5.1898 by US cruisers at the Battle of Manila Bay.
Navarra 1887
© Ivan Gogin, 2014