Spanish ironclad Méndez Núñez
Mendez Nuñez at anchor | |
| History | |
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| Spain | |
| Name | Resolución |
| Namesake | Resolution, a strong will |
| Ordered | 14 September 1859 (authorized) |
| Builder | Reales Astilleros de Esteiro, Ferrol |
| Laid down | 22 September 1859 |
| Launched | 19 September 1861 |
| Completed | 28 August 1862 |
| Commissioned | 28 August 1862 |
| Refit | 13 February 1867–7 March 1870 (converted from screw frigate to armoured frigate at Arsenal de Cartagena, Cartagena, Spain) |
| Renamed | Méndez Núñez, 21 August 1870 |
| Namesake | Casto Méndez Núñez (1824–1869), Spanish admiral |
| Decommissioned | 14 June 1886 |
| Stricken | 1888 |
| Fate | Sold for scrapping March 1896 |
| General characteristics (as wooden frigate) | |
| Type | Screw frigate |
| Displacement | 3,200 t (3,100 long tons) |
| Length | 70 m (229 ft 8 in) |
| Beam | 14 m (45 ft 11 in) |
| Draft | 6.16 m (20 ft 3 in) |
| Depth | 7.33 m (24 ft 1 in) |
| Installed power | |
| Propulsion | One John Penn and Sons steam engine, one shaft; 350 tons coal |
| Speed | 11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph) |
| Complement | 500 |
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| General characteristics (as ironclad) | |
| Type | Armoured frigate (Central battery ironclad) |
| Displacement | 3,382 long tons (3,436 t) |
| Length | 236 ft 2 in (71.98 m) |
| Beam | 49 ft 3 in (15.01 m) |
| Draft | 21 ft 11 in (6.7 m) |
| Installed power | 2,250 ihp (1,678 kW) |
| Propulsion | Compound-expansion steam engine, four boilers, one shaft; 400 long tons (410 t) coal |
| Sail plan | Ship rig |
| Speed | 8 knots (15 km/h; 9.2 mph) |
| Complement | 417 |
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Méndez Núñez was a Spanish Navy wooden-hulled armored corvette converted from the 38-gun screw frigate Resolución. As Resolución, the ship was commissioned in 1862 and participated in the Chincha Islands War of 1865–1866, taking part in the action of 17 November 1865, the bombardment of Valparaíso, and the Battle of Callao. Damage she sustained during the war and a subsequent circumnavigation of the world to return to Spain required major repairs, prompting the Spanish Navy to convert her into a ironclad warship between 1867 and 1870 and rename her Méndez Núñez in 1870. Captured by Cantonalist forces of the Canton of Cartagena during the Cantonal Rebellion of 1873—1874, she participated in the Battle of Portmán against a central government squadron in 1873 before she was returned to central government control after the Canton of Cartagena surrendered in January 1874. She was disarmed in 1880, decommissioned in 1886, stricken from the Navy List in 1888, and broken up in 1896.