Of the España-class with as sister ships the Jaime I and the Alfonso XIII. General details for this class are a displacement of 15.452 (normal)-15.700 (maximum) tons and as dimensions 132,6 (waterline)-140,0 (over all) x 24,00 x 7,77 (maximum) metres or 435‘-459’2” x 78’9”x 25’5”. The four Parsons steam turbines and twelve Yarrow boilers allowed a speed of 19, knots and with the coal bunker capacity of 900 (normal)-1,900 (maximum) and 2- oil bunker capacity a speed of 10 knots 5,000 nautical miles or with 16,75 knots a range of 3,100 nautical miles. Her crew numbered 854 men. The armament consisted of 4x2-12” guns, 20-4” guns, 4x3pdr quick firing guns, 2 machineguns and 2 landing guns. The armour consisted of a belt with a thickness of 4-8”, a upper belt thick 6” while the barbettes, gunhouses, deck and conning tower were protected by respectively 10”, 8”, 1,5” and 10”.. Further more were they fitted out with 1.5” thick bulkheads against torpedo attacks.
Laid down on 6 December 1909 at the shipyard of the Sociedad Española de Construcció Naval in El Ferrol, Spain, launched on 5 February three years later, completed on 23 October 1913 was she lost when running aground on 26 August 1923. The Dutch newspaper
Limburger Koerier dated 28 August 1923 published an item dated Madrid 27 August that she a day earlier was stranded near Cape Tresorcas and that the engine rooms were filled with water although there was still hope she could be salvaged. The disaster was caused by the fog. Another strange incident happened (newspaper
Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant dated 17 September) when the Norwegian salvage vessel Salvator was inspected by a Spanish navy trawler after first firing some shots. The Salvator was after two hours allowed to continue her voyage and arrived on 16 September in Gibraltar.
