Spanish frigate Princesa de Asturias
| History | |
|---|---|
| Name | Princesa de Asturias |
| Namesake | Infanta Isabel, Countess of Girgenti (1851–1931), Princess of Asturias (1851–1857) |
| Ordered |
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| Builder | Arsenal de La Carraca, San Fernando, Spain |
| Cost | 4,792,243 pesetas |
| Laid down | 13 May 1853 |
| Launched | 17 November 1857 |
| Commissioned | 1 November or 14 December 1859 (see text) |
| Renamed | Cartagena 7 October 1868 |
| Namesake | Cartagena, Spain |
| Renamed | Asturias 13 October 1868 |
| Namesake | Asturias, Spain |
| Reclassified | Floating jetty 1886 |
| Decommissioned | 1908 |
| Fate | |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Screw frigate |
| Displacement | |
| Length | 66 m (216 ft 6 in) |
| Beam | 15 m (49 ft 3 in) |
| Height | 7 m (23 ft 0 in) |
| Draft | 6.30 m (20 ft 8 in) |
| Installed power | |
| Propulsion | One John Penn and Sons steam engine, four boilers,one shaft; 230 or 460 tons coal (see text) |
| Sail plan | 46 sails, 2,400 m2 (25,833 sq ft) |
| Speed | 8 knots (15 km/h; 9.2 mph) |
| Endurance | 27 days (see text) |
| Complement | 437 |
| Armament |
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| Notes | Immobile cadet training ship from 1871 |
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Princesa de Asturias was a Spanish Navy screw frigate commissioned in 1859. She took part in the Hispano–Moroccan War of 1859–1860 and the mulitnational intervention in Mexico of 1861–1862, and the Dominican Restoration War of 1863–1865. In 1868, after the Glorious Revolution, she was renamed Cartagena, then six days later was renamed Asturias. From 1871, she was hulked as an immobile cadet training ship and headquarters of the Colegio Naval Militar (Naval Military College). After serving as such until 1906, she was decommissioned in 1908.