Spanish cruiser Velasco
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| Name: | Velasco |
| Namesake: | Velasco |
| Builder: | Blackwall, United Kingdom |
| Launched: | 1881 |
| Fate: | Sunk 1 May 1898 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Velasco-class |
| Type: | unprotected cruiser |
| Displacement: | 1,152 tons |
| Length: | 210 ft 0 in (64.0 m) |
| Beam: | 32 ft 0 in (9.8 m) |
| Draft: | 13 ft 8 in (4.2 m) maximum |
| Installed power: | 1,500 ihp |
| Propulsion: | 1-shaft, horizontal compound, 4-cylinder boilers |
| Sail plan: | barque-rigged |
| Speed: | 13 knots |
| Complement: | 173 officers and enlisted |
| Armament: | 4 x 6 in (152 mm) guns 2 × 3 in (76.2 mm) guns 2 x machine guns 2 × 14 inch (356 mm) torpedo tubes |
| Armor: | none |
| Notes: | 200 to 220 tons of coal (normal) |
Velasco was a Velasco-class unprotected cruiser of the Spanish Navy which fought in the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War.
[edit] Technical Characteristics
Velasco was built at Blackwall in the United Kingdom as the lead ship of a new class of eight Spanish unprotected cruisers. Her keel was laid in 1881. She had one rather tall funnel. She had an iron hull and was rigged as a barque. She and the second ship of the class, Gravina, also built in the United Kingdom, were differently armed from and slightly faster than the final six ships of the class, all of which were built in Spain.
[edit] Operational History
When the Spanish-American War began in April 1898, Velasco was anchored in Manila Bay off the Cavite Peninsula as part of Rear Admiral Patricio Montojo y Pasaron's Pacific Squadron. In the Battle of Manila Bay, she was still anchored there when the U.S. Navy's Asiatic Squadron attacked Montojo's squadron on 1 May 1898. She was sunk in the battle.
[edit] References
- Chesneau, Roger, and Eugene M. Kolesnik, Eds. Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1860-1905. New York, New York: Mayflower Books Inc., 1979. ISBN 0831703024.
- Nofi, Albert A. The Spanish-American War, 1898. Conshohocken, Pennsylvania:Combined Books, Inc., 1996. ISBN 0938289578.
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