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Navantia is a Spanish state-owned shipbuilding enterprise dedicated to civil and military naval construction, the design of deep-tech systems [3] and the manufacture of structures for the renewable energy sector, such as offshore wind or hydrogen. [4] It was established in 2005 following the segregation of the military assets of the IZAR Group.
There is no known complete plan of the ship in existence, but there are of the 112-gun ship from 1765, from which the original dimensions of the ship may be found. Here, the units of length are the Spanish Burgos foot (27.86 cm) and the SI metre (100 cm), respectively: length = 213 2 ⁄ 3 (59.53); keel = 182 5 ⁄ 12 (50.82); beam = 57 3 ⁄ 4 ...
This is a list of historical ship types, which includes any classification of ship that has ever been used, excluding smaller vessels considered to be boats. The classifications are not all mutually exclusive; a vessel may be both a full-rigged ship by description, and a collier or frigate by function. A two-masted schooner Aircraft Carrier
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Destructor was a 19th-century Spanish warship. She was a fast ocean-going torpedo gunboat and was one of the most important precursors of the destroyer type of naval vessels. [2] Destructor was the first warship formally classified as a "destroyer" at the time of her commissioning.
2 October 1939 sunk 6 October 1943 Beverley Royal Navy: Town: Destroyer 1,200 8 October 1940 sunk 11 April 1943 Bezuprechny Soviet Navy: Gnevny: Destroyer 1,587 2 October 1939 sunk 26 June 1942 Biddle United States Navy: Wickes: Destroyer 1,190 22 April 1919 scrapped 1946 Bison French Navy: Guépard: Destroyer 2,398 10 October 1930 sunk 3 May ...
Brazilian Navy plans to build 7,000-ton destroyers after the delivery of the new frigates, and TKMS presented to the Navy its most modern 7,200-ton MEKO A-400 air defense destroyer, an updated version of the German F-125-class frigates. The similarities between the projects and the high rate of commonality between requirements were also crucial ...
Antonio López was a merchant steamship that was built in Scotland in 1882 for the Spanish Compañía Transatlántica Española (CTE). A United States Navy auxiliary cruiser sank her in the Spanish–American War when she was trying to run the US blockade to supply materiél to the Spanish garrison on Puerto Rico.