NAVYPEDIA

Support the project with paypal


HOME
FIGHTING SHIPS OF THE WORLD
SPAIN
CRUISERS
CARLOS V armoured cruiser (1897)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Carlos V     Vea Murguía, Cádiz 4.3.1892 10.3.1895 2.6.1897 discarded 12.1931


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

9090

Displacement full, t10100
Length, m

115.8

Breadth, m

20.4

Draught, m

7.62 mean

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 4-cyl VTE, 12 cylindrical boilers

Power, h. p.

18500 (forced draught) 15000 (natural draught)

Max speed, kts

20 (forced draught) 19 (natural draught)

Fuel, t

coal 1800

Endurance, nm(kts)9600(11)
Armour, mmbelt: 50, battery: 50, deck: 50 with 165mm slopes, CT: 300, barbettes: 250, hoods: 100
Armament

2 x 1 - 280/35 Hontoria M1883, 8 x 1 - 140/36 Hontoria M1883, 4 x 1 - 57/42 Nordenfelt, 2 x 1 - 42/43 Sarmiento, 4 x 1 - 37/27 Maxim, 6 - 356 TT (beam)

Complement

583



Standard scale images


<i>Carlos V </i>1900
Carlos V 1900


Project history

Unusual cruiser with heavy guns and very thick deck slopes; sometimes she was classified as protected cruiser. To the First World War beginning she was considered become outdated.

Ship protection

Belt and battery protection was scanty and made up of two laminated plates, 25mm of Siemens and 25mm of chrome steel.

Modernizations

1920: - 8 x 1 - 140/36, 4 x 1 - 57/42, 2 x 1 - 42/43, 4 x 1 - 37/27, 4 - 356 TT; + 4 x 1 - 105/32 Krupp M1897, 8 x 1 - 12.7/87

Naval service

Emperador Carlos V was stricken in 1931 and broken up in 1933.