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Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Pelayo			F C de la Méditerranée, La Seyne, France	2/1886	5.2.1887	9.9.1888	TS 1920, discarded 8.1924

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	9745
Displacement full, t	9950
Length, m	102.0 wl 105.1 oa
Breadth, m	20.2
Draught, m	7.58 norm 8.69 max
No of shafts	2
Machinery	4 VC, 12 return-tube boilers
Power, h. p.	9600
Max speed, kts	16.7
Fuel, t	coal 650 norm 800 max
Endurance, nm(kts)	3000(10)
Armour, mm	Creusot steel; belt: 450 - 300, barbettes: 400 - 300, shields: 80, CT: 155, deck: 70 - 50
Armament	2 x 1 - 320/35 Hontoria M1883, 2 x 1 - 280/35 Hontoria M1883, 1 x 1 - 160/35 Hontoria M1883, 12 x 1 - 120/35 Hontoria M1883, 3 x 1 - 57/40 Hotchkiss, 13 x 1 - 37/20 Hotchkiss, 4 x 5 - 37/17 Hotchkiss, 7 - 381 TT (1 stern, 6 beam)
Complement	520

Standard scale images

Project history

Design was based on the basis of contemporary French battleship Marceau but with reduced draught. Originally she had 372 m2 of sails but soon after completion ship received military masts. Main guns were mounted in barbettes of Canet system, 160mm gun was a bow chaser.

Ship protection

 Main belt was 2.1m high amidships (0.6m above wl), hull had double bottom.

Modernizations

1897: boilers were replaced by 16 Niclausse ones (9473hp, 16kts, 676t of coal, 2540(10)nm); - 1 x 1 - 160/35, 12 x 1 - 120/35, 3 x 1 - 57/40, 13 x 1 - 37/20, 4 x 5 - 37/17; + 9 x 1 - 140/36 Hontoria M1883, 5 x 1 - 57/42 Nordenfelt, 14 x 1 - 37/27 Maxim; normal displacement was 9890t

1904: - 4 - 381 TT (beam)

1910: - 3 - 381 TT

Naval service

Pelayo served as TS since 1920.