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Spanish Navy. 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.
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 Santa María class of guided missile frigates is the Spanish Navy's designation for six warships based on the United States Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigates. Spanish ships have a slightly bigger beam and were built with a greater weight reserve for future improvements.
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 ...
Cristóbal Colón is the fifth and last ship of the Álvaro de Bazán -class of air defence frigates entering service with the Spanish Navy. The ship is named after Christopher Columbus, the Genoese explorer that claimed the discovery of America in the name of the Crown of Castile. It is the most modern ship of the Spanish Navy.
S-80 Plus-class submarine. 6 × 533 mm (21.0 in) torpedo tubes with DM2A4 torpedoes and Harpoon missiles UGM-84 Sub-Harpoon block II. The S-80 Plus class (or Isaac Peral class) is a Spanish class of four submarines being built by the state-owned [4] Spanish company Navantia at its Cartagena shipyard for the Spanish Navy.
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 II attack aircraft.
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.