Spanish ironclad Numancia

Numancia at anchor
History
Name	Numancia
Namesake	The Siege of Numantia of 134–133 BC during the Numantine War
Builder	Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée, La Seyne-sur-Mer, France
Cost	8,322,252 pesetas
Laid down	22 January 1861
Launched	19 November 1863
Commissioned	17 December 1864
Refit	1896–1898
Stricken	1912
Motto	Enloricata navis que primo terram circuivit ("First ironclad ship to sail around the world")
Fate	Wrecked 17 December 1916
Notes	Served Canton of Cartagena July 1873–January 1874
General characteristics (as built)
Type	Broadside ironclad (armoured frigate)
Displacement	7,305 t (7,190 long tons)
Length	95.6 m (313 ft 8 in)
Beam	17.3 m (56 ft 9 in)
Draft	7.7 m (25 ft)
Installed power	3,770 ihp (2,811 kW)
Propulsion	1 horizontal-return connecting-rod steam engine, 8 boilers, 1 shaft
Sail plan	Ship rig
Speed	12.7 knots (23.5 km/h; 14.6 mph)
Range	3,000 nautical miles (5,600 km; 3,500 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement	561
Armament	As built 40 × 68-pounder (31 kg) 200 mm (7.9 in) smoothbore guns 1868: 6 x 300-pounder (136 kg) Armstrong rifled guns 3 x 180-pounder (82 kg) Armstrong guns 16 × 68-pounder (31 kg) 200 mm (7.9 in) smoothbore guns 1876: 8 x 250 mm (9.8 in) Armstrong 300-pounder (136 kg) rifled guns 3 x Woolwich 200 mm (7.9 in) 180-pounder (82 kg) guns 8 x Palliser 160 mm (6.3 in) guns 1885: 8 x Armstrong 254 mm (10 in) 300-pounder (136 kg) guns 7 x Armstrong 203 mm (8 in) 180-pounder (82 kg) guns 1 x 90 mm (3.5 in) Hontoria saluting gun 2 x Hontoria 70 mm (2.8 in) 68-pounder (31 kg) guns 8 x 25-millimetre machine guns 1898: 4 x Hontoria 200 mm (7.9 in) guns 10 Hontoria 140 mm (5.5 in) quick-firing guns 10 x smaller guns 2 x torpedo tubes 1900 4 x Hontoria 200 mm (7.9 in) guns 3 x Schneider-Canet 150 mm (5.9 in) quick-firing guns 10 x Hontoria 140 mm (5.5 in) quick-firing guns 12 x Škoda 47 mm (1.9 in) guns 2 x torpedo tubes
Armor	Belt: 100–130 mm (3.9–5.1 in) Battery: 120 mm (4.7 in)
Notes	Converted to coastal defense ship 1896–1898

Numancia was a Spanish Navy armored frigate in commission from 1864 to 1912. Her long and active career included stints with the Spanish Royal Navy (Armada Real), the navy of the First Spanish Republic, and several months of operations in support of the Canton of Cartagena. She saw combat in the Chincha Islands War in 1865–1866, the Cantonal Rebellion in 1873–1874, the First Melillan campaign in 1893–1894, and the Second Melillan campaign in 1909. Between 1864 and 1867 she made the first circumnavigation of the Earth by an ironclad warship,^[1] and in 1877 she became one of the first two Spanish Navy ships to be electrified. She was wrecked in 1916 on her way to the shipbreakers for scrapping.

Numancia was named for the Siege of Numantia of 134–133 BC, the culminating event of the Numantine War, in which the native population of Hispania Citerior on the Iberian Peninsula resisted the forces of the Roman Republic.