Operational History
Jaime I saw action against insurgents in Morocco in the Rif War during the early 1920s, and was damaged by a coastal battery in May 1924.
She fought with the Spanish Republican Navy in the Spanish Civil War. On the first months of the war, Jaime I shelled a number of rebel strongholds, among them Ceuta, Melilla and Algeciras. In Algeciras she hit with her secondary armament the Nationalist gunboat Dato, which was burned down to the waterline, although she was later recovered and upgraded by the rebels. During that conflict, Jaime I was damaged by a Nationalist air attack at Malaga on 13 August 1936.
On 17 June 1937, while at Cartagena, she was wrecked by an accidental internal explosion and fire, although sabotage is suspected. She was refloated, but determined to be beyond repair. She was officially discarded on 3 July 1939 and broken up in 1941.
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