BLANCA frigate 1859

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BLANCA frigate 1859

Post by aukepalmhof » Wed Nov 22, 2017 10:17 pm

Built as a wooden screw frigate by Reales Astilleros de Esteira, Ferrol for the Spanish Navy.
09 October 1853 ordered.
Launched as the BLANCA one of the Petronila Class.
Displacement 3,800 ton, dim. ?
Armament 30 – 68 pdrs, and 14 – 32 pdrs, guns.
One steam engine, 360 nhp., one shaft, speed ?
Commissioned 1859.

The REINA BLANCA or BLANCA, was a screw frigate of the Spanish Navy, with wooden hull and powered by steam and sails, built on the Royal Shipyards de Esteira in Ferrol.
She received her name in memory of Queen Blanca de Navarra. She was ordered together with the frigates PETRONILA and BERENGUELA on 08 August 1863.

History
Since October 1859, under the command of Captain Manuel Sibila she participated in blockade operations and coastal bombing during the African War or First War of Morocco.
Between 1861 - 1862 , she participated in the expedition against Mexico together with forces of the United Kingdom and France , as part of the squadron under command of General Joaquín Gutiérrez de Rubalcava , commander general of the Apostadero de La Havana . When the French intentions to place Maximilian I of Habsburg as emperor of Mexico were put in place, BLANCA was ordered to return to Cuba.
During the Hispano-South American War, she was under the command of Juan Bautista Topete, she participated with the frigate VILLA DE MADRID, in the Battle of Abtao. On 17 February 1866, she sailed with the NUMANCIA from Valparaíso to the Chiloé Islands, anchoring on the 27th of the same month in Puerto Low and on 1 March in Puerto Oscuro and on the 9th at Arauco Bay the BLANCA captured that same afternoon a steamer called PAQUETE DEL MAULE , the next day, the BLANCA captured two coal barges, after which, on the 12 March, the five ships began their return to Valparaíso, where the NUMANCIA and the PAQUETE DEL MAULE arrived on 14 March and the rest of the ships the following day.
He also participated in the bombardment of Valparaíso and in the Battle of Callao, along with the rest of the Pacific squadron.
After the Battle of Callao on May 10, the Pacific squadron left the South American waters. The frigates VILLA DE MADRID, BLANCA and ALMANSA RESOLUTION via the Cape Horn route, while BERENGUELA and NUMANCIA, headed to the Philippines to repair the damages of the BERENGUELA, and the lack of coal in the NUMANCIA.
Between March and June of 1874, the BLANCA operated against the Carlist forces during the Second Carlist War, bombarding Santurce , Algorta and Carlist positions in San Pedro Abanto on 25 March, Santurce, Portugalete, Las Arenas and Carlist forces in the surroundings of Ciérvana on 26 March, Santurce, Portugalete and Las Arenas on 27 March and Ciérvana on 28th.
From 1874 to 1881, she was used as a school ship for the training of future officers of the Spanish Navy.
On the occasion of the inauguration of the Universal Exhibition of Barcelona , on 20 May, 1888 several ships of the Spanish fleet were at Barcelona, the armoured frigate NUMANCIA the screw frigate GERONA and BLANCA, the cruisers CASTILE and NAVARRE, ISLA DE LUZON, ISLA DE CUBA, the DESTRUCTOR, the gunboats PILAR and CÓNDOR and the transport LEGAZPI.
The BLANCA was decommissioned shortly after ceasing the school ship activity in 1882, but it looks in 1888 she was still around.
1893 Is given that she was broken up.

Source: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blanca_(1859).
Chile 2017 label.
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