Spanish ironclad Arapiles
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The Spanish ironclad Arapiles was a wooden-hulled armored frigate bought from England during the 1860s for the Spanish Navy. Begun as an unarmored steam frigate, she was converted into an ironclad while under construction. Damaged when she ran aground in early 1873, she was under repair in the United States during the Virginius Affair later that year as tensions rose between the US and Spain over the incident. The ship was hulked in 1879 and the poor condition of her hull forced her reconstruction to be cancelled in 1882. Arapiles was scrapped a year or two later.
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Name | Arapiles |
Namesake | Battle of Salamanca |
Builder | Green, Blackwall, London |
Laid down | June 1861 |
Launched | 17 October 1864 |
Completed | 1865 |
Commissioned | 1868 |
Stricken | 1879 |
Fate | Scrapped, 1883 |
General characteristics (as built) | |
Type | Broadside ironclad |
Displacement | 3,441 long tons (3,496 t) |
Length | 280 ft (85.3 m) |
Beam | 52 ft 2 in (15.9 m) |
Draft | 17 ft (5.2 m) |
Installed power | 2,400 ihp (1,800 kW) |
Propulsion |
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Sail plan | Ship rig |
Speed | about 8 knots (15 km/h; 9.2 mph) |
Complement | 537 |
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