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Spanish Navy / Armada Espanola - Guided
Missile Frigate F 83 SPS Numancia |
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class: Guided Missile Frigate; Santa Maria
(F80) class Builder: Bazan Shipbuilding, Ferrol, Spain STATUS: Laid down: January 8, 1986 Launched: January 29, 1987 Commissioned: November 17, 1989 IN SERVICE Homeport: Rota, Cadiz, Spain Namesake: Numancia (ship) Ships Motto: Technical Data: see INFO > Santa Maria (F80) class Guided Missile Frigate |
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The Spanish ironclad Numancia was an armored frigate bought from
France during the 1860s. The name was derived from the Siege of
Numantia, in which Roman expansion in the Iberian Peninsula was
resisted. She was the first ironclad to circumnavigate the Earth.
She saw service in the Chincha Islands War and Cantonal Revolution. On 20 October 1873, during the Cantonal Revolution, Numancia collided with the Spanish Navy gunboat Fernando el Católico off the coast of Spain, sinking the gunboat. |
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