USS Don Juan De Austria
| Career (United States) | |
|---|---|
| Name: | Don Juan de Austria |
| Namesake: | John of Austria (Spanish Navy name retained) |
| Builder: | Naval shipyard at Cartagena, Spain |
| Launched: | 23 January 1887 |
| Acquired: | Captured 1 May 1898 |
| Commissioned: | 11 April 1900 |
| Decommissioned: | 16 June 1919 |
| Fate: | Sold 16 October 1919 |
| Notes: | Served in Spanish Navy from 1887 to 1898 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type: | Velasco-class |
| Type: | Gunboat (ex-unprotected cruiser) |
| Displacement: | 1,015 tons |
| Length: | 215 ft 6 in (65.68 m) |
| Beam: | 32 ft 0 in (9.75 m) |
| Draft: | 12 ft 6 in (3.81 m) mean |
| Installed power: | 1,200 ihp (forced draft) |
| Propulsion: | 1-shaft horizontal compound, 4-cylinder boilers |
| Sail plan: | barque-rigged |
| Speed: | 12 knots |
| Complement: | 153 officers and enlisted |
| Armament: | 4 x 5 in (127 mm) guns; 4 x 6 pounder quick-firing guns; (5 inch (127 mm) guns later replaced by 4 x 4 inch (102 mm) guns) |
| Armor: | none |
| Notes: | Coal 225 tons |
USS Don Juan de Austria was a U.S. Navy gunboat. Formerly a Spanish Navy unprotected cruiser, she was captured in 1898 during the Spanish-American War and commissioned into the U.S. Navy.
For her technical characteristics and operational history as a Spanish ship, see Spanish cruiser Don Juan de Austria.
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