Spanish frigate Berenguela
| History | |
|---|---|
| Spain | |
| Name | Berenguela |
| Namesake | Berengaria of Castile |
| Ordered | 8 or 9 October 1853 |
| Builder | Reales Astilleros de Esteiro, Ferrol, Spain |
| Cost | 3,082,909 pesetas |
| Laid down | 16 October 1854 or 4 April 1855 (see text) |
| Launched | 24 February 1857 |
| Commissioned | September 1857 |
| Fate | Hulked 1875 |
| Decommissioned | 1877 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Screw frigate |
| Displacement | 2,600 or 3,800 tonnes (2,600 or 3,700 long tons) |
| Length | 64 m (210 ft 0 in) |
| Beam | 13 m (42 ft 8 in) |
| Height | 7.22 m (23 ft 8 in) |
| Draft | 6.35 m (20 ft 10 in) |
| Installed power | 360 hp (268 kW) (nominal) |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 8 knots (15 km/h; 9.2 mph) |
| Complement | 408 |
| Armament |
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Berenguela (English: Berengaria) was a screw frigate of the Spanish Navy commissioned in 1857, the first screw frigate to enter service in the Spanish Navy. She took part in the multinational intervention in Mexico in 1861–1862, several actions during the Chincha Islands War of 1865–1866, and the Spanish-Moro conflict in the early 1870s and was the first Spanish Navy ship to transit the Suez Canal. She was disarmed in 1875 and decommissioned in 1877.
Berenguela was named for Berengaria of Castile (1179 or 1180–1246), who was Queen consort of León from 1197 to 1204 and Queen of Castile from June to August 1217.