Spanish frigate Nuestra Señora del Carmén
| History | |
|---|---|
| Name | Nuestra Señora del Carmén |
| Namesake | Our Lady of Mount Carmel |
| Ordered | 1858 (authorized) |
| Builder | Arsenal de Cartagena, Cartagena, Spain |
| Cost | 2,753,318.16 pesetas |
| Laid down | 19 November 1859 |
| Launched | 4 October 1861 |
| Commissioned | 1862 |
| Renamed | Carmén October 1868 |
| Namesake | Mount Carmel |
| Reclassified | Training ship 10 August 1880 |
| Decommissioned | 1893 |
| Fate | Sold for scrapping 1897 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Screw frigate |
| Displacement | 3,116 t (3,067 long tons) |
| Length | 70 m (229 ft 8 in) |
| Beam | 14 m (45 ft 11 in) |
| Draft | 6.40 m (21 ft 0 in) |
| Depth | 7.02 m (23 ft 0 in) |
| Installed power | 600 hp (447 kW) (nominal) |
| Propulsion | One John Penn and Sons steam engine, four boilers, one shaft; 430 tons coal |
| Speed | 13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph) |
| Complement | 500 |
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Nuestra Señora del Carmén was a Spanish Navy Concepción-class screw frigate commissioned in 1862. She was named for Our Lady of Mount Carmel, the patron saint of the Spanish Navy. She operated in the Caribbean during the Chincha Islands War of 1865–1866, and after the Glorious Revolution of 1868 her name was changed to Carmén. She fought on the central government side during the Cantonal Rebellion of 1873–1874, taking part in the Battle of Portmán in 1873, and participated in the Spanish–Moro conflict in the Philippines in 1876. She was disarmed in 1886, decommissioned in 1893, and sold for scrapping in 1897.