Princesa de Asturias-class cruiser
Cataluña in 1914 | |
| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Name | Princesa de Asturias class |
| Builders | |
| Operators | Spanish Navy |
| Built | 1890–1904 |
| In commission | 1902–1929 |
| Completed | 3 |
| Lost | 1 |
| Retired | 2 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Armoured cruiser |
| Displacement | 6,888 tons |
| Length | 110.97 m (364 ft 1 in) |
| Beam | 18.59 m (61 ft 0 in) |
| Draught | 6.61 m (21 ft 8 in) |
| Propulsion | 14,800 hp (11,000 kW), two shafts |
| Speed | 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph) |
| Complement | 542 |
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The Princesa de Asturias class was a class of armoured cruisers of the Spanish Navy during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The class comprised three ships, Princesa de Asturias, Cataluña and Cardenal Cisneros. With construction beginning on the lead ship of the class in 1890, it was considered to be essentially a repeat of the three Infanta Maria Teresa-class cruisers but with more modern and balanced armament. Cardenal Cisneros was wrecked in 1905 and the other two ships were discarded in the late 1920s.