Spanish schooner Virgen de Covadonga
| History | |
|---|---|
| Spain | |
| Name | Virgen de Covadonga |
| Namesake | Our Lady of Covadonga |
| Ordered | 19 June 1857 |
| Builder | Arsenal de La Carraca, San Fernando, Spain |
| Cost | 5,000,000 reales de vellón (880,833.50 pesetas) |
| Laid down | 13 February 1858 |
| Launched | 28 November 1859 |
| Commissioned | 8 October 1859 |
| Captured | by Chilean Navy 26 November 1865 |
| Chile | |
| Name | Covadonga |
| Namesake | Truncation of Spanish name |
| Acquired | 26 November 1865 |
| Commissioned | 4 December 1865 |
| Fate | Sunk by mine 13 September 1880 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Screw schooner |
| Displacement | 415 tons |
| Tons burthen | 630 tons |
| Length | 45.60 m (149 ft 7 in) |
| Beam | 6.40 m (21 ft 0 in) |
| Draft | 3.40 m (11 ft 2 in) |
| Installed power | |
| Propulsion | One steam engine, one shaft |
| Sail plan | Brigantine rig |
| Speed | 6 to 8 knots (11 to 15 km/h; 6.9 to 9.2 mph) under steam |
| Complement | 82 to 125 men |
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Virgen de Covadonga (English: Virgin of Covadonga), sometimes referred to as Covadonga, was a Spanish Navy screw schooner commissioned in 1859. During the Chincha Islands War, she was captured by the Chilean Navy in the Battle of Papudo in 1865. Incorporated into the Chilean Navy, she initially was assigned to exploration missions and later to the Chilean Navy squadron that participated in the War of the Pacific (1879–1883). In the Battle of Punta Gruesa she defeated the Peruvian Navy broadside ironclad Independencia. She was sunk in 1880.