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Pages in category "Destroyers of the Spanish Navy" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
The Oquendo-class destroyers was a class of three destroyers built for the Spanish Navy.The nine initially projected Oquendo-class destroyers were the most ambitious project fronted by the programs of naval construction of the post-war period in Spain; however, the adoption of Rateau/Bretagne propulsion system, being of a low reliability and high complexity, coupled with the limited capacity ...
The Spanish term for ships of the line was navíos, but during the latter part of the Habsburg era (until 1700) ships continued to be designated as galeón. Those ships with secular names (e.g. royal, geographical or adjectival names) were additionally given an official religious name (or advocación ) which appears below in parentheses ...
Spanish–American War destroyers of Spain (1 C, 3 P) D. Destroyers of the Spanish Navy (11 C, 13 P) This page was last edited on 19 March 2013, at 01:54 (UTC). ...
USS Gridley, an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer The first automotive torpedo was developed in 1866, and the torpedo boat was developed soon after. In 1898, while the Spanish–American War was being fought in the Caribbean and the Pacific, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt wrote that the Spanish torpedo boat destroyers were the only threat to the American navy, and pushed for ...
Following the end of the Spanish Civil War, all three destroyers served with the Spanish State. [1] On 17 May 1943 Alsedo and Lazaga were damaged by a large fire at the naval base at El Ferrol. [10] The three destroyers continued to serve with the Spanish Navy until well into the 1950s, [1] with Alsedo and Velasco being stricken in 1957 and ...
The Churruca class was a Spanish destroyer class built for the Spanish Navy based on a British design. Eighteen ships were built, with two being sold to Argentina and commonly referred to as the Cervantes class. The last two members of the class are sometimes referred to as a separate class, the Alava class.
Lepanto was a Churruca-class destroyer of the Spanish Republican Navy. She took part in the Spanish Civil War on the side of the government of the Second Spanish Republic . She was named after the Battle of Lepanto .