Spanish cruiser Blas de Lezo
Blas de Lezo during shakedown in 1923. | |
| History | |
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| Spain | |
| Name | Méndez Núñez |
| Namesake | Casto Méndez Núñez (1824–1869), Spanish admiral |
| Operator | Spanish Navy |
| Builder | SECN, Ferrol, Spain |
| Laid down | 1920 |
| Launched | 3 March 1923 |
| Renamed | Blas de Lezo May 1924 |
| Namesake | Blas de Lezo y Olavarrieta (1689–1741), Spanish admiral |
| Commissioned | March 1925 |
| Fate | Sank 11 July 1932 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement |
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| Length |
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| Beam | 14.02 m (46 ft 0 in) |
| Height | 7.72 m (25 ft 4 in) |
| Draught | 5.6 m (18 ft 4 in) maximum |
| Installed power | 45,000 hp (33,556 kW) |
| Propulsion | Four Parsons geared turbines, 12 Yarrow boilers, four shafts |
| Speed | 29 knots (54 km/h) |
| Range | 5,000 nmi (9,300 km; 5,800 mi) at 13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph) |
| Complement | 320 |
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Blas de Lezo was a Spanish Navy Blas de Lezo-class light cruiser commissioned in 1925. She took part in the Rif War in 1925; supported part of the 1926 transatlantic flight of the flying boat Plus Ultra, piloted by Ramón Franco and Julio Ruiz de Alda Miqueleiz; and deployed to China during unrest there in 1927. She struck a rock and sank in 1932.