- Technical characteristics
- Operational history
- References
- External links
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}}{{Infobox ship career | Hide header= | Ship country=Spain | Ship flag= | Ship name=Velasco | Ship namesake=Velasco | Ship ordered= | Ship awarded= | Ship builder=Thames Ironworks & Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd. | Ship original cost= | Ship yard number= | Ship way number= | Ship laid down= | Ship launched=1881 | Ship sponsor= | Ship christened= | Ship completed= | Ship acquired= | Ship commissioned= | Ship recommissioned= | Ship decommissioned= | Ship maiden voyage= | Ship in service= | Ship out of service= | Ship renamed= | Ship reclassified= | Ship refit= | Ship struck= | Ship reinstated= | Ship homeport= | Ship identification= | Ship motto= | Ship nickname= | Ship honours= | Ship honors= | Ship captured= | Ship fate=Sunk 1 May 1898 | Ship status= | Ship notes= | Ship badge=
}}{{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header= | Header caption= | Velasco|cruiser|0}} unprotected cruiser | Ship displacement=1,152 tons | 210|ft|0|in|m|abbr=on}} | 32|ft|0|in|m|abbr=on}} | 13|ft|8|in|m|abbr=on}} maximum | 1,500|ihp|abbr=on}} | Ship propulsion=1-shaft, horizontal compound, 4-cylinder boilers | Ship sail plan=Barque-rigged | 13|kn}} | Ship range= | Ship endurance= | Ship complement=173 officers and enlisted | Ship sensors= | Ship EW= | 6|in|mm|abbr=on|0}} guns- 2 × {{convert|3|in|mm|abbr=on|0}} guns
- 2 × machine guns
- 2 × {{convert|14|in|mm|abbr=on|0}} torpedo tubes
| Ship armour= | Ship armor= | Ship notes=200 to 220 tons of coal (normal)
}} | Velasco was a {{sclass-|Velasco|cruiser|0}} unprotected cruiser of the Spanish Navy which fought in the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish–American War. Technical characteristicsVelasco was built by the Thames Ironworks & Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd. at Leamouth, London in the United Kingdom, as the lead ship of a new class of eight Spanish unprotected cruisers. Her keel was laid in 1881. She had one rather tall funnel. She had an iron hull and was rigged as a barque. She and the second ship of the class, {{ship|Spanish cruiser|Gravina||2}}, also built in the United Kingdom, were differently armed from and slightly faster than the final six ships of the class, all of which were built in Spain. Operational historyWhen the Spanish–American War began in April 1898, Velasco was anchored in Manila Bay off the Cavite Peninsula as part of Rear Admiral Patricio Montojo y Pasaron's Pacific Squadron. In the Battle of Manila Bay, she was still anchored there when the U.S. Navy's Asiatic Squadron attacked Montojo's squadron on 1 May 1898. She was sunk in the battle. References- Chesneau, Roger, and Eugene M. Kolesnik, Eds. Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. New York, New York: Mayflower Books Inc., 1979. {{ISBN|0-8317-0302-4}}.
- Nofi, Albert A. The Spanish–American War, 1898. Conshohocken, Pennsylvania: Combined Books, Inc., 1996. {{ISBN|0-938289-57-8}}.
External links- Department of the Navy: Naval Historical Center: Online Library of Selected Images: Spanish Navy Ships: Velasco (Cruiser, 1881–1898)
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