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Velasco 1890

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Velasco			Thames Iron Wks, Blackwall, UK	1879	1881	1881	sunk 1.5.1898
Gravina			Thames Iron Wks, Blackwall, UK	1879	1881	1881	wrecked 10.7.1884
Infanta Isabel			Arsenal del Cadiz	1883	26.6.1885	1888	stricken 1926
Isabel II			Arsenal del El Ferrol	1883	19.2.1886	1888	stricken 1902
Cristóbal Colón			La Carraca, Carraca	1883	1887	1889	lost 29.9.1895
Don Juan de Austria			Arsenal del Cartagena	1883	23.1.1887	1889	sunk 1.5.1898
Don Antonio de Ulloa			La Carraca, Carraca	1883	23.1.1887	1889	sunk 1.5.1898
Conde de Venadito			Arsenal del Cartagena	5.10.1884	20.8.1888	12.8.1891	stricken 7.1902

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	1152
Displacement full, t
Length, m	64.0 pp 67.4 oa
Breadth, m	9.75
Draught, m	3.90 normal 4.20 max
No of shafts	1
Machinery	1 HC, 4 cylindrical boilers
Power, h. p.	1500
Max speed, kts	13
Fuel, t	coal 220
Endurance, nm(kts)	2500(7)
Armament	Velasco, Gravina: 2 x 1 - 150/26 Armstrong M1881, 2 x 1 - 70/12 Hontoria, 2 - 356 TT (beam) others: 4 x 1 - 120/35 Hontoria M1883, 4 x 5 - 37/17 Hotchkiss, 4 x 1 - 25/40 Nordenfelt, 2 - 356 TT (beam)
Complement	173

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Project history

iron-hulled barque-rigged cruisers (sail area was 1132 m2). Fastest from the class, Cristóbal Colón, reached 15kts on trials.

Modernizations

1911, Infanta Isabel: was armed with only 1 x 1 - 66/40 Skoda, 10 x 1 - 57/42 Nordenfelt

Naval service

Gravina was lost N off Luzon 10.7.1884. Cristóbal Colón was lost off Cuba 29.9.1895. Velasco, Don Juan de Austria and Don Antonio de Ulloa were sunk by American cruisers Olympia, Raleigh, Baltimore, Boston and gunboats Concord and Petrel 1.5.1898 at Cavite. Later Don Juan de Austria was raised by Americans and commissioned by US Navy as gunboat under the same name.