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Sunday, 28 October 2018

Ambitious Spanish naval shipbuilding program according to the magazine Mitteilungen aus dem Gebiete des Seewesens dated 1907 No. 1

Espana-class

An item reported that the new Spanish shipbuilding program with as costs 15.840.000 pound sterling included the building of 8-14.000 tons battleships (1) and 9 cruisers. The cruisers (2) included the already completed Cataluna, Princesa de Asturias and Carlos V and probably the recently launched Reina Regente.

Notes
1. Of which the 15.700 tons España class battleships consisting of the España, Alfono XIII and Jaime I was realized.
2. The Cataluna of 1900, Princesa de Asturias of 1896, Emperador Carlos V of 1895 and the Reina Regente of 1906?