Spanish destroyer Sánchez Barcáiztegui
Destroyer Sánchez Barcaiztegui | |
| History | |
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| Spain | |
| Name | Sánchez Barcáiztegui |
| Namesake | Victoriano Sánchez Barcáiztegui |
| Builder | SECN, Naval Dockyard, Cartagena, Spain |
| Launched | 24 July 1926 |
| Completed | 1928 |
| Commissioned | 1928 |
| Decommissioned | 1 July 1964 |
| Honours and awards | Distintivo de Madrid 1938 |
| Fate | Scrapped in 1965 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Churruca-class destroyer |
| Displacement | 1,650 t (1,620 long tons) (normal); 2,067 t (2,034 long tons) (maximum) |
| Length | 101 m (331 ft 4 in) |
| Beam | 9.6 m (31 ft 6 in) |
| Height | 6.02 m (19 ft 9 in) |
| Draft | 3.3 m (10 ft 10 in) |
| Installed power | 42,000 shp (31,000 kW) |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 36 kn (67 km/h; 41 mph) |
| Range |
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| Complement | 160 |
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Sánchez Barcáiztegui was a Churruca-class destroyer of the Spanish Republican Navy. She took part in the Spanish Civil War on the side of the government of the Second Spanish Republic.
Sánchez Barcáiztegui was named in honor of Capitán de navío de primera clase (Ship-of-the-Line Captain First Class) Victoriano Sánchez Barcáiztegui (1826–1875), a Spanish Navy officer who gained fame in the Battle of Callao in 1866 and was killed in action during the Third Carlist War.