An item reported that the two Spanish ships Arragon and Gerona sold to ship breakers in the Netherlands were no merchant ship but warships. One 30 years and the other 30 years old were both condemned. The Arragon (1) was a cruiser and the Gerona (2) a frigate with auxiliary steam power. Both ships were new lying ay La Carraca near Cadiz, Spain and bought by Frank Rijsdijk at Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht. Mr. Henkes of the Dutch firm Henkes&Co. at Rotterdam, Netherlands examined both ships already in December 1900.
Notes
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.
