Infanta Isabel 1918
| Name | 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 |
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 - 150/30 Armstrong, 2 x 1 - 70/12 Hontoria, 2 - 356 TT (beam) others: 4 x 1 - 120/35 Hontoria M1883, 4 x 5 - 37/20 Hotchkiss, 4 x 1 - 25/40 Nordenfelt, 2 - 356 TT (beam) |
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Complement |
173 |
Ship 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 - 70/38 Škoda, 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
© Ivan Gogin, 2011