Spanish ironclad Duque de Tetuán
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The floating battery Duque de Tetuán was an ironclad warship, a low-freeboard vessel similar in design to a monitor, of the Spanish Navy, and was constructed during the Third Carlist War to provide coastal defense and fire support for troops ashore. Completed after the end of the conflict for which it was designed, the ship was assigned to the defense of Ferrol. It remained in this duty, though briefly decommissioned in 1897, until it was decommissioned and scrapped in 1900.
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Spain | |
Name | Duque de Tetuán |
Namesake | Leopoldo O'Donnell, 1st Duke of Tetuan |
Builder | Reales Astilleros de Esteiro |
Commissioned | 1874 |
Decommissioned | 1897 |
Recommissioned | 1898 |
Decommissioned | 1900 |
Fate | Scrapped 1900 |
General characteristics | |
Type | floating battery |
Displacement | 703 tons |
Length | 43 m (141 ft) |
Beam | 9.5 m (31 ft) |
Draft | 2.15 m (7.1 ft) |
Installed power | 190 ihp |
Speed | 6 knots |
Complement | 60 officers and enlisted |
Armament |
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Armor | 100 mm (3.9 in) iron |
Notes | 21 tons of coal |
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