Spanish Ship. Canarias

[Stan.J]

Not sure if a spanish ship has featured yet...Canarias with her sister ship Baleares was ordered for the Spanish Navy in 1928, being a modified version of the British Kent class. A higher speed was achieved by reducing the beam and increasing the length slightly and increasing the engine power, which added 1.5 knots to the design speed at full power. Canarias ran preliminary trials in 1934 and achieved 37.7 knots on full power over a four hour period.
Baleares was sunk during the CivilWar.
Canarias underwent a refit in 1953, emerging with two seperate funnels in place of her earlier trunked ones. This was a reversion to the original design, which had never been carried out.
Displacement:-10,113t
Dimensions:-635ft x 64ft x 17.4ft.
Machinery :- four screws,geared turbines. 90,000hp
Armenment:-eight 8"..eight 4.7" AA; 12- 21in TT
Armour:- belt 2" turrets 1"
Speed:- 33 knots.
Range:- 5600nm at 11knots.
Complement:- 780.
In her later years of service Canarias was completely overhauled and became the flagship of the Spanish Navy. being stricken in 1975.

[herakles]

Could this be the first post on Spanish ships?

Whilst I was researching a thread I was impressed to read of the significant ship building that Spain has. Such as the building of Thailand's aircraft carrier.

[Stan.J]

Another Spanish ship "Principe de Asturias"

[Stan.J]

How about this for a picture? 41a escorts escuadrilla.

[John Brown]

Spain’s only dreadnoughts were the Espana class Battleships. These three ships were the smallest dreadnoughts ever built and were, effectively, coastal defence ships. All were built by ‘Ferrol Navy’ to a British design and using main guns and machinery supplied by British firms. The main armament consisted of 8 x 12” guns mounted in 4 turrets. One turret was on the centre line forward and one aft. The other two were mounted on the wings with a cross deck firing capability giving an 8 gun broadside.

‘Espana’ was launched in 1913 and wrecked on an uncharted rock in 1923.

Alfonso XIII was launched in 1913 (renamed Espana in 1931) and sunk by a mine in 1937.

Jaime I was launched in 1914 and sank after a fire and magazine explosion whilst under repair in 1937. She was raised in 1938 and later scrapped.

Sorry for the poor picture of Espana:(

John

[colombamike]

a beautiful color picture (1950/1960's) of the spanish heavy cruiser "canarias".
This class of spanish heavy cruiser, built early 1930's, were derived from british design, 1920's.

[Harley]

Certainly a nice picture. Where did it come from?

Simon

[colombamike]

Certainly a nice picture. Where did it come from?
Simon

Probably in a spanish website, but i am not totally sure :rolleyes:
:D

[harry.gibbon]

How about this for a picture? 41a escorts escuadrilla.
looks like excellent station keeping to me Little h

[astraltrader]

This has always been my favourite shot of Canarias...

[Harley]

Just a note regarding the "España" class. John Brown said the machinery was supplied by Britain. The alloy for the turbine blades was purchased from Parson's, but everything else was built in Spain.

Simon

[novice 99]

The Canarias was based upon County class cruisers with some changes especially the secondary armament and profile (this i think to suit Spanish pride)
In the 1920-1935 period Spain bought U.K desighns for cruisers and destroyers and they were built in Spanish yards.

[alanbenn]

Here's another couple of Spanish ship's.

Ceuta and Alsedo.

Regards
Alan

[Asdrúbal el Bello]

And that's all, folks?

Is this the Armada Española?

[Asdrúbal el Bello]

Well, then on the Canarias

The first raid of the Canarias.
At the outbreak of the Civil War in July 1936 the Canarias had completed sea trials and was setting up the weapons. She mounted eight 203-mm guns, but not the 120-mm secondary artillery or the fire direction. It installed a hasty firing direction of a coastal battery and six 101-mm guns of the battleship España.
In September made an exit to the Strait of Gibraltar, hoping to surprise the Republican fleet, wich believed that the cruise would take more months to be ready to take to sea.
Disorders of July and August forced to board a crew of circumstances, including volunteers with a few weeks training. But the commander was a legend in the Armada, Captain Bastarreche, director of the firing range Janer, in Marin. He trained the crew of the cruise in the eleven days between his appointment and departure. The artillery gunners were apprentices in the same firing range of Marin. The director of fire, Lieutenant Commander Rodriguez Gonzalez, had been director of the firing range of Cadiz.
The Canarias sailed from Ferrol with cruiser Almirante Cervera on September 25. On 29 at 0530 hours, in the atlantic mouth of the Strait, the lookouts of the Canarias, who was leading, spotted a destroyer on patrol, republican Gravina. After notifying it to the Cervera, the Canarias continued to the Mediterranean. In east Punta Europa at 0620 hours was spotted another Republican destroyer, the Almirante Ferrandiz. The destroyer turned his course, but the Canarias opened fire from 20,000 metres, hit her with one 203 mm shell in the 3rd salvo and five more in the following (6 hits of 80 shells fired, between 20,000 and 16,000 meters). The Ferrandiz stopped in flames and sank quickly, with 98 casualties.
The presence of cruiser in the Strait caused a fundamental change in the Civil War. Convoys of troops from Morocco were safe for the nationalists, while the Republican Fleet ceased to have a strategic presence in the Atlantic, allowing to the Nationalists side transporting weapon and oil supplies through a ports of Galicia and Andalusia.



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[dorupantos]

Posiblle ALSEDO but for CEUTA and MELILLA they are to old ships .The pics are of some ships during the begining of the 20 century .

[Asdrúbal el Bello]

Both were the class Alsedo Destroyer Velasco -1924/1957-(left) and Alsedo -1924/1957-(right). The Ceuta and Melilla were italian destroyers transferred at Nacionalist fleet in the Civil War.

Its construction was entrusted to the Sociedad Española de Construcción Naval of Cartagena. They were similars to the british units that were intervening in the WW1. They were the first "real" Armada destroyers. Were good ships, and rendered a long service . In 1940-1943 were subjected to an intense program of modernization.

Structure
Displacement: 1164 Tons.
Length: 86.26 m
Beam: 8.23 m
Draft: 2.74 m

Armament
3x101.6 mm/40 cal 2x47 mm anti-aircraft guns, 2x450 mm torpedo tubes. 60 mines on rails on deck.
In 1940-1943 added 3x20 mm anti-aircraft guns. It also added two mortars launching depth charges.

Propulsion
They were the first ships of the Armada that used fuel oil only. They had two sets of Parsons turbines powered by four Yarrow type boilers 33,000 hp supplying two axes.

Speed
37 knots.

Range
2,500 miles.