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{{other uses|Spanish destroyer Almirante Ferrandiz}}{{Infobox ship image| Ship image= | Ship caption=Spanish destroyer Almirante Ferrándiz
}}{{Infobox ship career | Hide header= | Ship country=Spain | Spain|1931}} | Ship name= Almirante Ferrandiz | Ship namesake=José Ferrándiz y Niño | Ship ordered= | Ship awarded= | Ship builder=SECN, Naval Dockyard, Cartagena, Spain | Ship original cost= | Ship yard number= | Ship way number= | Ship laid down= | Ship launched= | Ship sponsor= | Ship christened= | Ship completed=1929 | Ship commissioned=1929 | Ship recommissioned= | Ship decommissioned=1936 | 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= | Spanish cruiser|Canarias | 2} | Ship status= | Ship notes= | Ship badge=
}}{{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header= | Header caption= | Churruca|destroyer}} | Ship displacement=1,650 tons (normal); 2,067 tons (maximum) | 101|m|ftin|abbr=on}} | 9.6|m|ftin|abbr=on}} | 3.3|m|ftin|abbr=on}} | Ship power=*4 Yarrow boilers- {{convert|42,000|hp|lk=in|abbr=on}}
| Ship propulsion= 2 Parsons turbines | 36|kn|km/h}} | 5000|nmi|km}} at {{convert|10|kn|km/h}}- {{convert|3,100|nmi|km}} at {{convert|14|kn|km/h}}
| Ship complement=160 | Ship time to activate= | Ship sensors= | Ship EW= | 120|mm|in|abbr=on}} L45 (5x1)- 1 × {{convert|3|in|mm|abbr=on|0|order=flip}} anti-aircraft gun
- 4 × machineguns
- 6 × {{convert|21|in|mm|abbr=on|0|order=flip}} torpedo tubes (2x3)
- 2 × depth charge racks
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}} | Almirante Ferrándiz was a {{sclass-|Churruca|destroyer}} in the Spanish Republican Navy. She took part in the Spanish Civil War on the government side. She was named in honor of José Ferrándiz y Niño, a Spanish Admiral and former Navy Minister. HistoryAlmirante Ferrándiz took part in the Gibraltar Strait blockade. When a Republican squadron penetrated the Cantabrian Sea to relieve Republican troops isolated in the north, she remained in the strait with {{ship|Spanish destroyer|Gravina||2}} to stop any movement of Nationalist troops between Africa and the Iberian peninsula. In response, the nationalist heavy cruiser {{ship|Spanish cruiser|Canarias||2}} (which Republicans believed had been damaged by an aerial bomb) and light cruiser {{ship|Spanish cruiser|Almirante Cervera||2}} were sent to break the blockade. On 29 September 1936, at the Battle of Cape Spartel, Canarias opened fire from {{convert|16|km|nmi}}, and hit Almirante Ferrándiz with her second salvo. The Republican destroyer continued sailing away from Canarias, but the heavy cruiser struck her again with a third salvo, at {{convert|20|km|nmi|abbr=on}}. The destroyer took a total of six hits from Canarias{{'}}s {{convert|8|in|mm|abbr=on|order=flip}} main armament and sank {{convert|33|km|nmi|abbr=on}} off Calaburras with most of her crew. Canarias stopped to rescue 31 sailors from Almirante Ferrándiz and authorized the French liner Koutubia to pick up another 26, including her commander, José Luis Barbastro Jiménez.[1] References1. ^{{Cite book|title=Islam y Guerra Civil Española: moros con Franco y con la República|last=Sánchez Ruano|first=Francisco|publisher=Esfera de los Libros|year=2004|isbn=8497342062|location=|pages=596|language=Spanish|via=}}
- {{cite book | title = Buques de la Guerra Civil Española. Destructores" (Spanish Civil War Ships, destroyers) (in Spanish)| author = Dionisio García Flórez | year = | publisher = Library | isbn = 84-932284-7-8 }}
- {{cite book | title = La Batalla del Estrecho (The battle in the strait) (in Spanish)| author = Alejandro Ramírez| year = 2003 | publisher = Grupo Publicaciones del Sur| isbn = 84-95813-09-2 }}
- {{cite book | title = The Spanish Civil War | author = Hugh Thomas | year = 2001 | publisher = Modern Library | isbn = 0-375-75515-2 }}
External links- Destroyers of the Spanish civil war (in Spanish)
- Wrecksite, Spanish Republican Navy (1936-39)
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