Infanta Isabel 1918
| Name | No | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comp | Fate |
| Velasco | Thames Iron Wks, Blackwall, UK | 1879 | 1881 | 1881 | sunk 1.5.1898 | ||
| Gravina | Thames Iron Wks, Blackwall, UK | 1879 | 1881 | 1881 | wrecked 10.7.1884 | ||
| Infanta Isabel | Arsenal del Cadiz | 1883 | 26.6.1885 | 1888 | stricken 1926 | ||
| Isabel II | Arsenal del El Ferrol | 1883 | 19.2.1886 | 1888 | stricken 1902 | ||
| Cristóbal Colón | La Carraca, Carraca | 1883 | 1887 | 1889 | lost 29.9.1895 | ||
| Don Juan de Austria | Arsenal del Cartagena | 1883 | 23.1.1887 | 1889 | sunk 1.5.1898 | ||
| Don Antonio de Ulloa | La Carraca, Carraca | 1883 | 23.1.1887 | 1889 | sunk 1.5.1898 | ||
| Conde de Venadito | Arsenal del Cartagena | 5.10.1884 | 20.8.1888 | 12.8.1891 | stricken 7.1902 |
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Displacement normal, t |
1152 |
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Displacement full, t |
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Length, m |
64.0 pp 67.4 oa |
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Breadth, m |
9.75 |
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Draught, m |
3.90 normal 4.20 max |
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No of shafts |
1 |
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Machinery |
1 HC, 4 cylindrical boilers |
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Power, h. p. |
1500 |
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Max speed, kts |
13 |
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Fuel, t |
coal 220 |
| Endurance, nm(kts) | 2500(7) |
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Armament |
Velasco, Gravina: 2 x 1 - 150/26 Armstrong M1881, 2 x 1 - 70/12 Hontoria, 2 - 356 TT (beam) others: 4 x 1 - 120/35 Hontoria M1883, 4 x 5 - 37/17 Hotchkiss, 4 x 1 - 25/40 Nordenfelt, 2 - 356 TT (beam) |
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Complement |
173 |
Project history: iron-hulled barque-rigged cruisers (sail area was 1132 m2). Fastest from the class, Cristóbal Colón, reached 15kts on trials.
Modernizations: 1911, Infanta Isabel: was armed with only 1 x 1 - 66/40 Skoda, 10 x 1 - 57/42 Nordenfelt
Naval service: Gravina was lost N off Luzon 10.7.1884. Cristóbal Colón was lost off Cuba 29.9.1895. Velasco, Don Juan de Austria and Don Antonio de Ulloa were sunk by American cruisers Olympia, Raleigh, Baltimore, Boston and gunboats Concord and Petrel 1.5.1898 at Cavite. Later Don Juan de Austria was raised by Americans and commissioned by US Navy as gunboat under the same name.
Velasco 1890
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