An item dated London, England reported that the Spanish wood-built cruiser Aragon (1) of 3.342 tons, built at Cartagena, Spain in 1879 and the wood-built training ship Gerona (2) of 3.920 ton were sold to the Netherlands for 600.000 pesetas.
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1. Building ordered in January 1869, laid down as an armoured central battery corvette at the naval shipyard, Cartagena, Spain on 2 May 1869, decided to complete her as an wood-built unprotected cruiser/corvette in 1870, launched on 31 July 1879, completed in 1880, decommissioned in mid-1890s, hulked in 1896.
2. This must be the screw steam frigate Gerona built at Cartagena, Spain in 1864.
