Spanish ironclad Méndez Núñez
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The Spanish ironclad Méndez Núñez was a wooden-hulled armored corvette converted from the 38-gun, steam-powered frigate Resolución during the 1860s after the ship was badly damaged during the Chincha Islands War of 1864–1866. She was captured by rebels during the Cantonal Revolution in 1873 and participated in the Battle off Cartagena before she was returned to government control after Cartagena surrendered in early 1874. The ship was stricken from the Navy List in 1886 and broken up ten years later.
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Name | Méndez Núñez |
Namesake | Admiral Casto Méndez Núñez |
Builder | Reales Astilleros de Esteiro, Ferrol |
Laid down | 22 September 1859 as frigate Resolución |
Launched | 19 September 1861 |
Completed | 28 August 1862 |
Recommissioned | February 1870 |
Renamed | Méndez Núñez, 21 August 1870 |
Refit | 1867–1870 |
Stricken | 1886 |
Fate | Scrapped, 1896 |
General characteristics (as reconstructed) | |
Type | Central-battery ironclad |
Displacement | 3,382 long tons (3,436 t) |
Length | 236 ft 2 in (71.98 m) |
Beam | 49 ft 3 in (15.01 m) |
Draft | 21 ft 11 in (6.7 m) |
Installed power | |
Propulsion | 1 shaft, compound-expansion steam engine |
Sail plan | Ship rig |
Speed | about 8 knots (15 km/h; 9.2 mph) |
Complement | 417 |
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