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Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Carlos V			Vea Murguía, Cádiz	4.3.1892	10.3.1895	2.6.1897	discarded 12.1931

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	9090
Displacement full, t	10100
Length, m	115.8
Breadth, m	20.4
Draught, m	7.62 mean
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 4-cyl VTE, 12 cylindrical boilers
Power, h. p.	18500 (forced draught) 15000 (natural draught)
Max speed, kts	20 (forced draught) 19 (natural draught)
Fuel, t	coal 1800
Endurance, nm(kts)	9600(11)
Armour, mm	belt: 50, battery: 50, deck: 50 with 165mm slopes, CT: 300, barbettes: 250, hoods: 100
Armament	2 x 1 - 280/35 Hontoria M1883, 8 x 1 - 140/36 Hontoria M1883, 4 x 1 - 57/42 Nordenfelt, 2 x 1 - 42/43 Sarmiento, 4 x 1 - 37/27 Maxim, 6 - 356 TT (beam)
Complement	583

Standard scale images

Project history

Unusual cruiser with heavy guns and very thick deck slopes; sometimes she was classified as protected cruiser. To the First World War beginning she was considered become outdated.

Ship protection

Belt and battery protection was scanty and made up of two laminated plates, 25mm of Siemens and 25mm of chrome steel.

Modernizations

1920: - 8 x 1 - 140/36, 4 x 1 - 57/42, 2 x 1 - 42/43, 4 x 1 - 37/27, 4 - 356 TT; + 4 x 1 - 105/32 Krupp M1897, 8 x 1 - 12.7/87

Naval service

Emperador Carlos V was stricken in 1931 and broken up in 1933.