NAVYPEDIA

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Numancia			F C de la Méditerranée, La Seyne, France	22.4.1862	19.11.1863	17.12.1864	harbour service 1909, accommodation ship 1912

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	7189
Displacement full, t
Length, m	96.0 pp 96.1 oa
Breadth, m	17.4
Draught, m	8.22 max
No of shafts	1
Machinery	1 HRCR, 8 rectangular boilers
Power, h. p.	3700
Max speed, kts	10
Fuel, t	coal 1100
Endurance, nm(kts)	3000(10)
Armour, mm	iron; belt: 130, battery: 120
Armament	34 x 1 - 200/12 68pdr No.1 & No.2 SBML
Complement	500

Standard scale images

Project history

An iron-hulled ship-rigged vessel with one funnel and a ram bow. Later the 254mm guns were 18t Armstrong weapons mounted on the main deck; 4 of the 9t 203mm Armstrongs were also mounted on the main deck, with the other 3 on the upper deck and the 280mm Hontoria gun on the forecastle.

Ship protection

 130mm wrought iron armour protected all ship length from 2.3mm under wl to upper deck, it was tapered to 120mm at the upper deck and to 10mm at ship ends.

Modernizations

1870: - 18 x 1 - 200/12; + 6 x 1 - 254/14 Armstrong 300pdr MLR, 3 x 1 - 203/15 Armstrong 9-ton 180pdr MLR

1876: - 16 x 1 - 200/12; + 2 x 1 - 254/14 Armstrong 300pdr MLR, 8 x 1 - 160/16 Palliser MLR

1881: - 8 x 1 - 160/16; + 4 x 1 - 203/15 Armstrong 9-ton 180pdr MLR

1885: + 1 x 1 - 200/35 Hontoria M1883

1900: re-engined: (13kts); new armament consisted of 4 x 1 - 200/35 Hontoria M1883, 3 x 1 - 150/48 Schneider-Canet, 8 x 1 - 140/36 Hontoria M1883, 12 x 1 - 47/40 Skoda, 2 - 356 TT (beam)

Naval service

Numancia was non-seagoing from 1909, became accommodation ship in 1912 and sank under tow to BU 17.12.1916.