Spanish schooner Virgen de Covadonga
The schooner Virgen de Covadonga was a ship that participated in the Chincha Islands War and the War of the Pacific, under Spanish and Chilean flags. She was launched in 1859. Covadonga hit a floating mine and sank off Chancay in 1880.
Covadonga at berth in Valparaiso, Chile | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| Spain | |
| Name | Virgen de Covadonga |
| Ordered | June 10, 1857 |
| Builder | Arsenal de la Carrara shipyard (Cádiz, Spain) |
| Cost | 5,000,000 Reales de Vellón |
| Laid down | 13 February 1858 |
| Launched | 28 November 1859 |
| Commissioned | 8 October 1859 |
| Captured | Battle of Papudo, 26 November 1865 |
| Fate | Captured by Chilean Navy during the Chincha Islands War |
| Chile | |
| Name | Covadonga |
| Acquired | 26 November 1865 |
| Commissioned | 4 December 1865 |
| Fate | Sunk by a mine in Chancay, Peru during the War of the Pacific, 13 September 1880 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Screw-propelled schooner |
| Tons burthen | 630 tons |
| Length | 107 ft (33 m) |
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| Sail plan | Brigantine sail rigging |
| Speed | 7 knots (13 km/h; 8.1 mph) on steam |
| Complement | 110 crewman |
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| Notes | (*) Installed after 21 May 1879 |
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