Canarias-class cruiser
Canarias during the Spanish Civil War | |
| Class overview | |
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| Name | Canarias class |
| Builders | Sociedad Española de Construcción Naval in Ferrol |
| Operators | Spanish Navy |
| Preceded by | Almirante Cervera class |
| Succeeded by | None |
| Built | 1928–1935 |
| In commission | 1935–1975 |
| Planned | 3 |
| Completed | 2 |
| Cancelled | 1 |
| Lost | 1 |
| Retired | 1 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Heavy cruiser |
| Displacement |
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| Length | 636 ft (194 m) |
| Beam | 64 ft (20 m) |
| Draught | 21 ft 5 in (6.53 m) |
| Installed power | Yarrow type boilers, 90,000 hp (67,000 kW) |
| Propulsion | 4 shafts, Parsons type geared turbines |
| Speed | 33 knots (61 km/h) |
| Range | 8,000 nmi (15,000 km) at 15 kn (28 km/h) |
| Complement | 679 |
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The Canarias class was a class of heavy cruiser of the Spanish Navy. Two ships of the class were completed in the 1930s. They were built in Spain by the Vickers-Armstrongs subsidiary Sociedad Española de Construcción Naval upon a British design, and were a modified version of the Royal Navy′s County class. The two ships completed, Canarias and Baleares, both saw service during the Spanish Civil War, the latter being sunk.