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España was a Spanish dreadnought battleship, the lead ship of the España class, the two other ships being Alfonso XIII and Jaime I.The ship was built in the early 1910s in the context of a cooperative defensive agreement with Britain and France, as part of a naval construction program to restore the fleet after the losses of the Spanish–American War.
Following the end of the First World War, Spain did not participate in the Washington Naval Conference which limited battleship construction for its signatories. Nevertheless, battleships of the 35,000-long-ton (36,000 t) displacement class—the limit under the Washington Naval Treaty —were considered by the Spanish Navy in the early 1920s.
The need to keep the new battleship design tightly constrained due to the frail Spanish economy and industrial sector was of secondary importance. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] A third constraint was the need to build ships small enough to fit in existing dockyard facilities because Spain had insufficient funds to both build larger battleships and to enlarge the ...
The Spanish Navy supplied Alfonso XIII, Jaime I, four cruisers, the seaplane tender Dédalo, and several smaller craft, with Alfonso XIII serving as the Spanish flagship. The French added the battleship Paris, two cruisers, and several other vessels. Both fleets provided gunfire support as the ground forces landed on 8 September; the amphibious ...
Jaime I was a Spanish dreadnought battleship, the third and final member of the España class, which included two other ships: España and Alfonso XIII.Named after King James I of Aragon, Jaime I was built in the early 1910s, though her completion was delayed until 1921 owing to a shortage of materials that resulted from the start of World War I in 1914.
Called the Ceuta class in Spain. [4] Alessandro Poerio-class scout cruisers– A class of Italian World War I scout cruisers which Italy later reclassified as destroyers. The Nationalists purchased two of them, Alessandro Poerio and Guglielmo Pepe, in 1937 and renamed them Huesca and Teruel, respectively. Called the Huesca class in Spain. [4]
Illustration of an España-class battleship by Oscar Parkes. Following disastrous losses in the Spanish–American War of 1898, Spain lacked the money to rebuild its navy, though the naval command made repeated requests for funding to begin reconstruction.
It was the only battleship in the Spanish fleet until the entry into service of the single-caliber battleship España in 1914. Pelayo spent her early years in Spanish waters, showing the flag in various naval reviews and exhibitions, notably in Greece in 1891, at Genoa, Italy, in 1892, and Kiel, Germany, in 1895.