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Navantia is a Spanish state-owned shipbuilding 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.
During the 1860s, 1870s and 1880s the rapidly improving, fast and cheap torpedo boats were presenting an escalating threat to major warships.Escort vessels were already in use to provide protection for battleships but it was decided that what was needed was a new type of enlarged and fast torpedo boat, capable of escorting larger ships on long voyages and also able to attack enemy battleships ...
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 ...
Considered by some to be more "Dreadnought-type coast-defense ships" than pure battleships, [2] the three ships of the class were built in Ferrol by Sociedad Española de Construcción Naval (SECN), the lead ship being completed in under four years, but the onset of World War I resulted in delays to the remaining two ships, and especially the ...
The term does not imply in any way that the ship is privately owned. privateer. Also private man of war. A privately owned ship authorised by a national power (by means of a letter of marque) to conduct hostilities against an enemy. prize A property captured at sea in virtue of the rights of war, e.g. an enemy warship or merchant vessel. prize crew
The ships were eventually returned to their original crews. On 10 June 1937, Císcar, under the command of Alférez de Navío Juan Antonio Castro and José Luis Díez commanded by Ship-of-the-Line Lieutenant (Spanish Teniente de navío) Evaristo Lopez engaged the cruiser Almirante Cervera (Capitán de navío Manuel Moreu). The result was ...
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.
It covers shipbuilding in different periods, including: early beginnings in Medieval Spain; the Spanish Renaissance; Age of Sail ships of the Age of Discovery and Spanish global maritime explorers; merchant and naval ships of the Spanish Empire, including the Spanish Armada; Early Modern Spain and the Industrial Revolution, Spanish–American ...