Spanish frigate Reina Blanca
| History | |
|---|---|
| Spain | |
| Name | Reina Blanca |
| Namesake | Blanche I of Navarre |
| Ordered | 8 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 | 19 February 1859 |
| Commissioned | 1859 |
| Fate | Scrapped 1893 |
| 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) |
| Depth | 6.35 m (20 ft 10 in) |
| Installed power | 360 hp (268 kW) (nominal) |
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| Speed | 8 knots (15 km/h; 9.2 mph) |
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Reina Blanca (English: Queen Blanche), sometimes referred to as Blanca (English: Blanche), was a screw frigate of the Spanish Navy commissioned in 1859. She took part in the Hispano–Moroccan War of 1859–1860, the multinational intervention in Mexico in 1861–1862, several actions during the Chincha Islands War of 1865–1866, and the Third Carlist War in 1874. After service as a training ship during the 1870s and 1880s, she was scrapped in 1893.
Reina Blanca was named for Blanche I of Navarre (1387–1441), who was queen regnant of the Kingdom of Navarre from 1425 to 1441. She also was Queen of Sicily from 1402 to 1409 and regent of the Kingdom of Sicily from 1404 to 1405 and from 1408 to 1415.