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Don Juan de Austria

Don Juan de Austria

Scuttled

Spanish Navy, then United States Navy

TypeCruiser
WarSpanish–American War
Main guns4 × 4.7-inch (119 mm) guns

Service

1887–1899Don Juan de Austria
from 1899Don Juan de Austria

Raised and commissioned by the US Navy

Scuttled at Manila Bay. Raised and commissioned in the US Navy.

The Spanish Navy unprotected cruiser Don Juan de Austria, sometime between her commissioning ca. 1887-1889 and her sinking on 1 May 1898. Photo: Unidentified photographer, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Armament and specifications

Armament

  • 4 × 4.7-inch (119 mm) guns
  • 4 × 6 pdr guns
  • 1 × machine gun
  • 2 × 14 in (356 mm) torpedo tubes
BuilderArsenal de Cartagena, Cartagena, Spain
Laid down1883
Launched23 January 1887
Displacement1,152 tons
Length210 ft 0 in (64.01 m)
Speed13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph)
Complement173 officers and enlisted

As built, from the ship's Wikipedia article. Figures there may cover later refits too.

Career

Launched

23 January 1887

1 May 1898