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Navarra 1887

Ships

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

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	3289
Displacement full, t
Length, m	71.9 wl
Breadth, m	13.4
Draught, m	7.19 max
No of shafts	1
Machinery	1 3-cyl HC
Power, h. p.	4400
Max speed, kts	14
Fuel, t	coal 460
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	8 x 1 - 203/15 Armstrong 9-ton 180pdr MLR
Complement	389 - 392

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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.