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Spanish Navy / Armada Espanola - Guided Missile Frigate
F 105 SPS Cristobal Colon
 

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Type, class: Guided Missile Frigate; Alvaro de Bazan (F100) class
Builder: Navantia shipbuilding, Ferrol, Spain
 
STATUS:
Awarded: May 20, 2005
Laid down: June 29, 2007
Launched: November 4, 2010
Commissioned: October 23, 2012
IN SERVICE
 
Homeport:
Namesake: Cristobal Colon /Christopher Columbus (1450/51-1506)
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Technical Data: see INFO > Alvaro de Bazan (F100) class Guided Missile Frigate
 
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F 105 Cristobal Colon has two Mk-38 25mm machine gun systems (far left)

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F 105 Cristobal Colon has two Mk-38 25mm machine gun systems on both sides at the top of the hangar

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Christopher Columbus

(Italian: Cristoforo Colombo; Spanish: Cristóbal Colón; Portuguese: Cristóvão Colombo; Latin: Christophorus Columbus; between 31 October 1450 and 30 October 1451 in Genoa - 20 May 1506 in Valladolid) was an Italian explorer, navigator, colonizer, and citizen of the Republic of Genoa. Under the auspices of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain, he completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean. Those voyages, and his efforts to establish permanent settlements on the island of Hispaniola, initiated the European colonization of the New World.

In the context of emerging Western imperialism and economic competition among European kingdoms through the establishment of trade routes and colonies, Columbus's proposal to reach the East Indies by sailing westward eventually received the support of the Spanish Crown, which saw in it a chance to enter the spice trade with Asia through a new westward route. During his first voyage in 1492, instead of arriving at Japan as he had intended, he reached the New World, landing on an island in the Bahamas archipelago that he named "San Salvador". Over the course of three more voyages, he visited the Greater and Lesser Antilles, as well as the Caribbean coast of Venezuela and Central America, claiming all of it for the Crown of Castile.

Though Columbus was not the first European explorer to reach the Americas (having been preceded by the Vikinger expedition led by Leif Erikson in the 11th century), his voyages led to the first lasting European contact with the Americas, inaugurating a period of European exploration, conquest, and colonization that lasted for several centuries. These voyages had, therefore, an enormous impact in the historical development of the modern Western world. He spearheaded the transatlantic slave trade and has been accused by several historians of initiating the genocide of the Hispaniola natives. Columbus himself saw his accomplishments primarily in the light of spreading the Christian religion.

Never admitting that he had reached a continent previously unknown to Europeans rather than the East Indies he had set out for, Columbus called the inhabitants of the lands he visited indios (Spanish for "Indians"). His strained relationship with the Spanish crown and its appointed colonial administrators in America led to his arrest and dismissal as governor of the settlements on the island of Hispaniola in 1500, and later to protracted litigation over the benefits which he and his heirs claimed were owed to them by the crown.

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