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' COLON' | ||
Built by: | Money & H. L. Wigram, at Blackwall. | |
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Launched: | 1st March 1849 | |
Tonnage: | 1,060 | |
Length: | 57 . 8m | |
Breadth: | 9 . 5m | |
Depth: | 4 . 2m | |
Machinery: | Penn, London. 350 nhp | |
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Built of: | Wood | |
Type: | Frigate | |
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Built for: | Spanish Navy | |
Other info: | Armament - 2 x 200 m/m SB + 2 x 160 m/m SB. New Armament in 1874. 2 x 160 m/m MLR + 2 x 160 m/m SB. | |
History: | 1848/9 Italian Expedition. 1850/4 On the Cuba Station. 1854/9 On the State Transatlantic Service between Spain and Cuba. 1859/60 First Moroccan War, in action (1860) against attempted Carlit insurrection. 1860 Second Italian Expedition. 1863/6 On the Cuba Station, suppression of an uprising in Puerto Rico, Mexican Expedition and Dominican Expedition. 1866/7 On the Rio de la Plate Station. 1873/4 In Government Squadron during Cantonalist Insurrection, took part in action off Portman (11th October 1873). 1874/5 Second Carlist War and flagship of the Naval Forces of the North. 26th May 1875. Off Motrico, Rear-Adm. Sanchez Barcaiztegui, C.O. of these forces, was killed by a Carlist shell on 'Colon's quarter deck. 1882 Out of service. | |
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