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Spanish battleship Alfonso XIII : ウィキペディア英語版 | Spanish battleship Alfonso XIII
''Alfonso XIII'' was a Spanish dreadnought battleship, the second member of the . She had two sister ships, ''España'' and ''Jaime I''. ''Alfonso XIII'' was built by the SECN shipyard; she was laid down in February 1910, launched in May 1913, and completed in August 1915. Named after King Alfonso XIII of Spain, she was renamed ''España'' in 1931 after the king was exiled following the proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic. The new name was the namesake of her earlier sister ship, the that served in the Spanish fleet from 1913 to 1923. ''Alfonso XIII'' served in the Spanish fleet from 1915 to 1937. Spain remained neutral during World War I, and so ''Alfonso XIII'' and her sisters were the only European dreadnoughts to avoid the war. She and her sisters participated in the Rif War, where they provided gunfire support to Spanish Army forces. The ship was seized by General Francisco Franco at the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. While steaming off Santander on 30 April 1937, she struck a mine and sank; most of her crew was taken off by the destroyer ''Velasco''. ==Technical characteristics== (詳細はlong at the waterline and long overall. She had a beam of and a draft of ; her freeboard was amidships. Her propulsion system consisted of four-shaft Parsons steam turbines and twelve Yarrow boilers. The engines were rated at and produced a top speed of . ''Alfonso XIII'' had a cruising radius of at a speed of . Her crew consisted of 854 officers and enlisted men.〔Gardiner & Gray, p. 378〕 ''Alfonso XIII'' was armed with a main battery of eight /50 guns, mounted in four twin gun turrets. One turret was placed forward, two were positioned en echelon amidships, and the fourth was aft of the superstructure.〔 This mounting scheme was chosen in preference to superimposed turrets, as was done in the s, to save weight and cost.〔Fitzsimons, p. 856〕 Her secondary battery consisted of twenty guns mounted in casemates along the length of the hull. They were too close to the waterline, however, which made them unusable in heavy seas. She was also armed with four 3-pounder guns and two machine guns. Her armored belt was thick amidships; the main battery turrets were protected with the same amount of armor plate. The conning tower had thick sides. Her armored deck was thick.〔
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