Spanish ironclad Sagunto
Sagunto at anchor | |
| History | |
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| Spain | |
| Name | Principe Alfonso or Principe Don Alfonso (see text) |
| Namesake | Alfonso, Prince of Asturias |
| Ordered |
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| Builder | Reales Astilleros de Esteiro, Ferrol, Spain |
| Cost | 7,230,049 pesetas |
| Laid down | 1858 or 21 March 1863 |
| Renamed | Sagunto 13 October 1868 |
| Namesake | Siege of Saguntum |
| Launched | 26 April 1869 |
| Renamed | Amadeo I 13 February 1871 |
| Namesake | King Amadeo I of Spain |
| Renamed | Sagunto 4 March 1873 |
| Namesake | Siege of Saguntum |
| Completed | 1 February 1877 |
| Commissioned | 1 February 1877 |
| Stricken | 1891 |
| Fate |
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| Notes | In reserve from 1886, then hulked |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Central-battery ironclad |
| Displacement | 7,352 t (7,236 long tons) |
| Length | 89.5 m (293 ft 8 in) (waterline) |
| Beam | 17.3 m (56 ft 9 in) |
| Draft | 8.4 m (28 ft) |
| Installed power | |
| Propulsion | 1 shaft, 2 compound-expansion steam engines |
| Sail plan | Ship rig |
| Speed | 12.5 knots (23.2 km/h; 14.4 mph) |
| Complement | 554 |
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| Armor | |
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Sagunto was a wooden-hulled Spanish Navy (Armada Real) armored frigate commissioned in 1877. A very lengthy construction period and design flaws in her cnstruction led to a short service life of only ten years, and she was decommissioned in 1887 and stricken from the naval register in 1891.
Sagunto was named for the Siege of Saguntum, an event in 219 BC that triggered the Second Punic War.