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Cruiser Almirante Cervera
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Spanish cruiser Almirante Cervera Spanish cruiser Almirante Cervera Spanish cruiser Almirante Cervera Spanish cruiser Almirante CerveraSpain
NameAlmirante Cervera
NamesakeAdmiral Pascual Cervera y Topete
Laid down14 April 1923
Launched16 October 1925
Commissioned15 September 1928
Decommissioned31 August 1965
Nickname(s)Chulo del Cantábrico
FateScrapped 1966
General characteristics
Class and typeAlmirante Cervera-class cruiser
Displacement
  • 7,475 long tons (7,595 t) standard
  • 9,237 long tons (9,385 t) full load
Length579 ft (176 m)
Beam54 ft (16 m)
Draught16 ft 6 in (5.03 m)
Installed power8 Yarrow-type boilers, 80,000 hp (60,000 kW)
Propulsion4 shafts, Parsons-type geared turbines
Speed33 knots (61 km/h; 38 mph)
Complement566
Armament
  • As built
  • 8 × 6-inch (152 mm) Vickers-Carraca guns in 3 twin turrets and 2 single mountings
  • 4 × 4-inch (102 mm) AA guns
  • 2 × 47 mm (1.9 in) Hotchkiss 3-pdr light AA guns
  • 12 × 21-inch (533 mm) torpedoes in triple tubes above water
  • 1940s refit[1]
  • 8 × 6-inch (152 mm) Vickers-Carraca guns in 3 twin turrets and 2 single mountings
  • 4 × 105 mm (4.1 in) AA guns
  • 4 × 37 mm (1.5 in) SK C/30 AA guns
  • 4 × 20 mm Flakvierling 38 AA guns
  • 12 × 21-inch (533 mm) torpedoes in triple tubes above water
Armour
  • Belt 3–2 in (76–51 mm)
  • Deck 1–2 in (25–51 mm)
  • Conning tower 6 in (152 mm)

Almirante Cervera was a light cruiser and lead ship of the Almirante Cervera class of the Spanish Navy. She was named after the Spanish admiral Pascual Cervera y Topete, commander of the Spanish naval forces in Cuba during the Spanish–American War. She was part of the Spanish Republican Navy between 1931 and 1936, year in which she became a key player of the Nationalist Fleet in the Spanish Civil War.

  1. ^ Whitley 1995, p. 217-218

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