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This is a list of active Spanish Navy ships, complete and correct as of December 2016, partially updated to January 2024. [1][2] There are approximately 139 vessels in the Navy, including minor auxiliary vessels. A breakdown includes; one amphibious assault ship (also used as an aircraft carrier), two amphibious transport docks, 11 frigates ...
The Spanish Navy or officially, the Armada, is the maritime branch of the Spanish Armed Forces and one of the oldest active naval forces in the world. The Spanish Navy was responsible for a number of major historic achievements in navigation, the most famous being the discovery of America and the first global circumnavigation.
The Spanish term for ships of the line was navíos, but during the latter part of the Habsburg era (until 1700) ships continued to be designated as galeón. Those ships with secular names (e.g. royal, geographical or adjectival names) were additionally given an official religious name (or advocación ) which appears below in parentheses ...
Pure transport: 25 NH90 + 6 flight deck parking spots. Juan Carlos I is a multi-purpose aircraft carrier - landing helicopter dock (LHD) [7] in the Spanish Navy (Armada Española). Similar in role to many aircraft carriers, the amphibious landing ship has a ski jump for STOVL operations, and is equipped with the McDonnell Douglas AV-8B Harrier ...
Juan Sebastián de Elcano is a training ship of the Spanish Navy. It is a four-masted topsail, steel-hulled barquentine (schooner barque). At 113 metres (371 ft) long, it is the third-largest tall ship in the world, and is the sailing vessel that has sailed the furthest, covering more than 2,000,000 nautical miles (3,700,000 km; 2,300,000 mi ...
Most of the few retired Spanish Navy ships preserved as museum ships are submarines: Submarine Peral of 1888 is preserved in Cartagena (Murcia). Two units of the Foca class: SA-41 in Mahón (Balearic Islands) and SA-42 in Cartagena (Murcia). Two units of the Tiburón class: the SA-51 in Barcelona (Catalonia) and the SA-52 in Cartagena (Murcia).
C. Spanish gunboat Callao. Spanish frigate Canarias. Spanish oiler Cantabria. Spanish frigate Cataluna. List of classes of Spanish Nationalist ships of the Spanish Civil War.
2 × Sikorsky SH-60B Seahawk LAMPS III helicopters. Santa María (F81) is the lead ship of six Spanish-built Santa Maria -class frigates of the Spanish Navy, based on the American Oliver Hazard Perry class design. The vessel was constructed in 1982 and was launched on 11 November 1984. Santa María was commissioned on 12 October 1986.