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id="toc-The_Spanish_Republic_and_Spanish_Civil_War-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-World_War_II" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#World_War_II"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.5.2</span> <span>World War II</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-World_War_II-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Post_World_War_II" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Post_World_War_II"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.5.3</span> <span>Post World War II</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Post_World_War_II-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Current_status" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Current_status"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2</span> <span>Current status</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Current_status-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Current status subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Current_status-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Infantería_de_Marina" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Infantería_de_Marina"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.1</span> <span>Infantería de Marina</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Infantería_de_Marina-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Equipment" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Equipment"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3</span> <span>Equipment</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Equipment-sublist" 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<a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Ranks_and_insignia"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4</span> <span>Ranks and insignia</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Ranks_and_insignia-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Organization" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Organization"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5</span> <span>Organization</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Organization-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Preserved_ships" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Preserved_ships"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6</span> <span>Preserved ships</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Preserved_ships-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7</span> <span>See also</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Notes" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Notes"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8</span> <span>Notes</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Notes-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">9</span> <span>References</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-External_links" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#External_links"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">10</span> <span>External links</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-External_links-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> <div class="mw-content-container"> <main id="content" class="mw-body"> <header class="mw-body-header vector-page-titlebar"> <nav aria-label="Contents" class="vector-toc-landmark"> <div id="vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown vector-page-titlebar-toc vector-button-flush-left" title="Table of Contents" > <input type="checkbox" id="vector-page-titlebar-toc-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown-checkbox " aria-label="Toggle the table of contents" > <label id="vector-page-titlebar-toc-label" for="vector-page-titlebar-toc-checkbox" class="vector-dropdown-label cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled 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href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A8%D8%AD%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A5%D8%B3%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%A9" title="البحرية الإسبانية – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="البحرية الإسبانية" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ast mw-list-item"><a href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armada_Espa%C3%B1ola" title="Armada Española – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="Armada Española" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Asturianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armada_Espanyola" title="Armada Espanyola – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Armada Espanyola" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%A0pan%C4%9Blsk%C3%A9_n%C3%A1mo%C5%99nictvo" title="Španělské námořnictvo – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Španělské námořnictvo" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armada_Espa%C3%B1ola" title="Armada Española – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Armada Española" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armada_Espa%C3%B1ola" title="Armada Española – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Armada Española" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%99%CF%83%CF%80%CE%B1%CE%BD%CE%B9%CE%BA%CF%8C_%CE%A0%CE%BF%CE%BB%CE%B5%CE%BC%CE%B9%CE%BA%CF%8C_%CE%9D%CE%B1%CF%85%CF%84%CE%B9%CE%BA%CF%8C" title="Ισπανικό Πολεμικό Ναυτικό – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Ισπανικό Πολεμικό Ναυτικό" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armada_espa%C3%B1ola" title="Armada española – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Armada española" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispania_mararmeo" title="Hispania mararmeo – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Hispania mararmeo" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espainiako_Itsas_Armada" title="Espainiako Itsas Armada – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Espainiako Itsas Armada" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%DB%8C%D8%B1%D9%88%DB%8C_%D8%AF%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%A7%DB%8C%DB%8C_%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%BE%D8%A7%D9%86%DB%8C%D8%A7" title="نیروی دریایی اسپانیا – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="نیروی دریایی اسپانیا" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_espagnole" title="Marine espagnole – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Marine espagnole" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armada_Espa%C3%B1ola" title="Armada Española – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Armada Española" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%8A%A4%ED%8E%98%EC%9D%B8_%ED%95%B4%EA%B5%B0" title="스페인 해군 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="스페인 해군" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%A0panjolska_mornarica" title="Španjolska mornarica – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Španjolska mornarica" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armada_Espa%C3%B1ola" title="Armada Española – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Armada Española" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%94%D7%A6%D7%99_%D7%94%D7%A1%D7%A4%D7%A8%D7%93%D7%99" title="הצי הספרדי – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="הצי הספרדי" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tentera_Laut_Sepanyol" title="Tentera Laut Sepanyol – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Tentera Laut Sepanyol" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaanse_marine" title="Spaanse marine – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Spaanse marine" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B9%E3%83%9A%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B3%E6%B5%B7%E8%BB%8D" title="スペイン海軍 – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="スペイン海軍" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armada_Espa%C3%B1ola" title="Armada Española – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Armada Española" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Den_spanske_marinen" title="Den spanske marinen – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="Den spanske marinen" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk nynorsk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armada_Espa%C3%B1ola" title="Armada Española – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Armada Española" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armada_Espanhola" title="Armada Espanhola – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Armada Espanhola" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%BE%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%BE-%D0%BC%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B5_%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8B_%D0%98%D1%81%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B8" title="Военно-морские силы Испании – Russian" lang="ru" 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class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Our_Lady_of_Mount_Carmel" title="Our Lady of Mount Carmel">Our Lady of Mount Carmel</a> (Spanish: <i>Nuestra Señora del Carmen</i>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;">March</th><td class="infobox-data">Himno de la Escuela Naval (José María Pemán)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;">Anniversaries</th><td class="infobox-data">16 July</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.armada.mde.es">www<wbr />.armada<wbr />.mde<wbr />.es</a></span></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#C3D6EF;color:inherit;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;font-size:110%;">Commanders</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;"><a href="/wiki/Captain_general_of_the_Navy" title="Captain general of the Navy">Commander in Chief</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Estandarte_Real_de_Espa%C3%B1a.svg/15px-Estandarte_Real_de_Espa%C3%B1a.svg.png" decoding="async" width="15" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Estandarte_Real_de_Espa%C3%B1a.svg/23px-Estandarte_Real_de_Espa%C3%B1a.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Estandarte_Real_de_Espa%C3%B1a.svg/30px-Estandarte_Real_de_Espa%C3%B1a.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="800" /></span></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Felipe_VI_of_Spain" class="mw-redirect" title="Felipe VI of Spain">King Felipe VI</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;"><a href="/wiki/Chief_of_Staff_of_the_Navy_(Spain)" title="Chief of Staff of the Navy (Spain)">Admiral Chief of the Naval Staff</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Spanish_Chief_of_Staff_of_the_Navy_flag.png/15px-Spanish_Chief_of_Staff_of_the_Navy_flag.png" decoding="async" width="15" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Spanish_Chief_of_Staff_of_the_Navy_flag.png/23px-Spanish_Chief_of_Staff_of_the_Navy_flag.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Spanish_Chief_of_Staff_of_the_Navy_flag.png/30px-Spanish_Chief_of_Staff_of_the_Navy_flag.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></span></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Admiral" title="Admiral">Admiral</a> Carlos Martínez-Merello y Díaz de Miranda (acting)</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#C3D6EF;color:inherit;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;font-size:110%;">Insignia</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;">Jack</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Naval_jack_of_Spain.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Naval_jack_of_Spain.svg/100px-Naval_jack_of_Spain.svg.png" decoding="async" width="100" height="100" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Naval_jack_of_Spain.svg/150px-Naval_jack_of_Spain.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Naval_jack_of_Spain.svg/200px-Naval_jack_of_Spain.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="500" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;">Ensign</th><td class="infobox-data"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_Spain.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Spain.svg/150px-Flag_of_Spain.svg.png" decoding="async" width="150" height="100" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Spain.svg/225px-Flag_of_Spain.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Spain.svg/300px-Flag_of_Spain.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="750" data-file-height="500" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#C3D6EF;color:inherit;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;font-size:110%;">Aircraft flown</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;"><a href="/wiki/Attack_aircraft" title="Attack aircraft">Attack</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_AV-8B_Harrier_II" title="McDonnell Douglas AV-8B Harrier II">McDonnell Douglas EAV-8B Harrier II+</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;"><a href="/wiki/Fighter_aircraft" title="Fighter aircraft">Fighter</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_AV-8B_Harrier_II" title="McDonnell Douglas AV-8B Harrier II">McDonnell Douglas EAV-8B Harrier II+</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;"><a href="/wiki/Helicopter" title="Helicopter">Helicopter</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Sikorsky_SH-60_Seahawk" title="Sikorsky SH-60 Seahawk">Sikorsky SH-60B Seahawk</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;"><a href="/wiki/Cargo_helicopter" class="mw-redirect" title="Cargo helicopter">Cargo helicopter</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Sikorsky_SH-60_Seahawk" title="Sikorsky SH-60 Seahawk">Sikorsky SH-60F Seahawk</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;"><a href="/wiki/Multirole_helicopter" class="mw-redirect" title="Multirole helicopter">Multirole helicopter</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Bell_212" title="Bell 212">Agusta Bell AB-212+</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;"><a href="/wiki/Trainer_helicopter" class="mw-redirect" title="Trainer helicopter">Trainer helicopter</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Eurocopter_EC135" title="Eurocopter EC135">Airbus H135</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;"><a href="/wiki/Surveillance_aircraft" title="Surveillance aircraft">Reconnaissance</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Boeing_Insitu_MQ-27_ScanEagle" title="Boeing Insitu MQ-27 ScanEagle">Boeing Institu ScanEagle</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;"><a href="/wiki/Trainer_(aircraft)" class="mw-redirect" title="Trainer (aircraft)">Trainer</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_AV-8B_Harrier_II" title="McDonnell Douglas AV-8B Harrier II">McDonnell Douglas TAV-8B Harrier II</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;"><a href="/wiki/Cargo_aircraft" title="Cargo aircraft">Transport</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Cessna_Citation_II" title="Cessna Citation II">Cessna Citation</a></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Military unit</div> <p>The <b>Spanish Navy</b>, officially the <b>Armada</b>, is the <a href="/wiki/Navy" title="Navy">maritime branch</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Spanish_Armed_Forces" title="Spanish Armed Forces">Spanish Armed Forces</a> and one of the oldest active naval forces in the world. The Spanish Navy was responsible for a number of major historic achievements in navigation, the most famous being the <a href="/wiki/Voyages_of_Christopher_Columbus" title="Voyages of Christopher Columbus">discovery of America</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Magellan%27s_circumnavigation" class="mw-redirect" title="Magellan's circumnavigation">first global circumnavigation</a>. For several centuries, it played a crucial logistical role in the expansion and consolidation of the <a href="/wiki/Spanish_Empire" title="Spanish Empire">Spanish Empire</a>, and defended a vast trade network across the Atlantic Ocean between the <a href="/wiki/Spanish_treasure_fleet" title="Spanish treasure fleet">Americas and Europe</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Manila_Galleon" class="mw-redirect" title="Manila Galleon">Manila Galleon</a> across the Pacific Ocean between the <a href="/wiki/Spanish_East_Indies" title="Spanish East Indies">Philippines</a> and the Americas. </p><p>The Spanish Navy was one of the most powerful maritime forces in the world from the late 15th century to mid-18th century.<sup id="cite_ref-Márquez2016_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Márquez2016-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the early 19th century, with the <a href="/wiki/Spanish_American_wars_of_independence" title="Spanish American wars of independence">loss of most of its empire</a>, the Spanish navy transitioned to a smaller fleet but it still maintained a significant shipbuilding capability and produced the first fully capable <a href="/wiki/Peral_Submarine" class="mw-redirect" title="Peral Submarine">military submarine</a>. In this time, the Spanish navy also contributed to the development of the <a href="/wiki/Spanish_warship_Destructor" title="Spanish warship Destructor">destroyer</a> class of warship and achieved the first global circumnavigation by an <a href="/wiki/Spanish_ironclad_Numancia" title="Spanish ironclad Numancia">ironclad vessel</a>. </p><p>The main bases of the Spanish Navy are at <a href="/wiki/Rota,_C%C3%A1diz" class="mw-redirect" title="Rota, Cádiz">Rota</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ferrol,_Galicia" class="mw-redirect" title="Ferrol, Galicia">Ferrol</a>, <a href="/wiki/San_Fernando,_C%C3%A1diz" title="San Fernando, Cádiz">San Fernando</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cartagena,_Spain" title="Cartagena, Spain">Cartagena</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Spanish_Navy&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Origins:_the_Middle_Ages">Origins: the Middle Ages</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Spanish_Navy&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Origins: the Middle Ages"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bataille_de_la_Rochelle.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Bataille_de_la_Rochelle.jpg/220px-Bataille_de_la_Rochelle.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="208" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Bataille_de_la_Rochelle.jpg/330px-Bataille_de_la_Rochelle.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Bataille_de_la_Rochelle.jpg/440px-Bataille_de_la_Rochelle.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2014" data-file-height="1907" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_La_Rochelle" title="Battle of La Rochelle">Battle of La Rochelle</a>, 1372</figcaption></figure> <p>The roots of the modern Spanish Navy date back to before the unification of Spain. By the late <a href="/wiki/Middle_Ages" title="Middle Ages">Middle Ages</a>, the two principal kingdoms that would later combine to form Spain, <a href="/wiki/Crown_of_Aragon" title="Crown of Aragon">Aragon</a> and <a href="/wiki/Crown_of_Castile" title="Crown of Castile">Castile</a>, had developed powerful fleets. Aragon possessed the third largest navy in the late medieval Mediterranean, although its capabilities were exceeded by those of <a href="/wiki/Venetian_Republic" class="mw-redirect" title="Venetian Republic">Venice</a> and (until overtaken in the 15th century by those of Aragon) <a href="/wiki/Genoese_Republic" class="mw-redirect" title="Genoese Republic">Genoa</a>. In the 14th and 15th centuries, these naval capabilities enabled Aragon to assemble the largest collection of territories of any European power in the Mediterranean, encompassing the <a href="/wiki/Balearics" class="mw-redirect" title="Balearics">Balearics</a>, Sardinia, <a href="/wiki/Sicily" title="Sicily">Sicily</a>, southern Italy and, briefly, the <a href="/wiki/Duchy_of_Athens" title="Duchy of Athens">Duchy of Athens</a>. </p><p>Castile meanwhile used its naval capacities to conduct its <a href="/wiki/Reconquista" title="Reconquista">Reconquista</a> operations against the <a href="/wiki/Moors" title="Moors">Moors</a>, capturing <a href="/wiki/C%C3%A1diz" title="Cádiz">Cádiz</a> in 1232 and also to help the French Crown against England in the <a href="/wiki/Hundred_Years%27_War" title="Hundred Years' War">Hundred Years' War</a>. In 1375, a Castilian fleet destroyed a large English fleet at Bourgneuf, and Castilian ships raided the English coast. As Castile developed long-lasting trade relationships with towns in the <a href="/wiki/Low_Countries" title="Low Countries">Low Countries</a> of the Netherlands and <a href="/wiki/Flanders" title="Flanders">Flanders</a>, the <a href="/wiki/English_Channel" title="English Channel">English Channel</a> virtually became the "Spanish Channel."<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1402, a Castilian expedition led by <a href="/wiki/Juan_de_Bethencourt" class="mw-redirect" title="Juan de Bethencourt">Juan de Bethencourt</a> conquered the <a href="/wiki/Canary_Islands" title="Canary Islands">Canary Islands</a> for <a href="/wiki/Henry_III_of_Castile" title="Henry III of Castile">Henry III of Castile</a>. In 1419, the Castilians <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_La_Rochelle_(1419)" title="Battle of La Rochelle (1419)">defeated</a> the German <a href="/wiki/Hanseatic_League" title="Hanseatic League">Hanseatic League</a> at sea and excluded them from the <a href="/wiki/Bay_of_Biscay" title="Bay of Biscay">Bay of Biscay</a>. </p><p>In the 15th century, Castile entered into a race of exploration with <a href="/wiki/Portuguese_Empire" title="Portuguese Empire">Portugal</a>, the country that inaugurated the European <a href="/wiki/Age_of_Discovery" title="Age of Discovery">Age of Discovery</a>. In 1492, two <a href="/wiki/Caravel" title="Caravel">caravels</a> and a <a href="/wiki/Carrack" title="Carrack">carrack</a>, commanded by <a href="/wiki/Christopher_Columbus" title="Christopher Columbus">Christopher Columbus</a>, arrived in America, on an expedition that sought a westward oceanic passage across the Atlantic, to the Far East. This began the era of trans-oceanic trade routes, pioneered by the Spanish in the seas to the west of Europe and the Portuguese to the east. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_Habsburg_era">The Habsburg era</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Spanish_Navy&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: The Habsburg era"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Placa_del_pante%C3%B3n.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/44/Placa_del_pante%C3%B3n.JPG/190px-Placa_del_pante%C3%B3n.JPG" decoding="async" width="190" height="287" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/44/Placa_del_pante%C3%B3n.JPG/285px-Placa_del_pante%C3%B3n.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/44/Placa_del_pante%C3%B3n.JPG/380px-Placa_del_pante%C3%B3n.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1059" data-file-height="1600" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Commemorative_plaque" title="Commemorative plaque">Commemorative plaque</a> at <a href="/wiki/San_Fernando,_C%C3%A1diz" title="San Fernando, Cádiz">San Fernando</a>'s <i>Panteón de los Marinos Ilustres</i>, depicting a list of victories of the <a href="/wiki/Naval_fleet" title="Naval fleet">Armadas</a> of Spain <table class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"> <tbody><tr> <th>List of <i>Victories</i> </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Conquest_of_Majorca" title="Conquest of Majorca">Conquest of Majorca</a> 1229 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/James_I_of_Aragon" title="James I of Aragon">Conquest of Menorca</a> 1232 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/James_I_of_Aragon" title="James I of Aragon">Conquest of Ibiza</a> 1234 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Ferdinand_III_of_Castile" title="Ferdinand III of Castile">Conquest of Seville</a> 1248 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Malta" title="Battle of Malta">Battle of Malta</a> 1283 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/War_of_the_Sicilian_Vespers" title="War of the Sicilian Vespers">Combat of Sorrento</a> 1284 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Roger_of_Lauria" title="Roger of Lauria">Battle of Castellamare</a> 1287 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Cape_St._Vincent_(1337)" title="Battle of Cape St. Vincent (1337)">Battle of Cape St. Vincent</a> 1337 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_La_Rochelle" title="Battle of La Rochelle">Battle of La Rochelle</a> 1371 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Combat of Gibraltar 1407 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_La_Rochelle_(1419)" title="Battle of La Rochelle (1419)">Battle of La Rochelle</a> 1419 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Conquest_of_the_Canary_Islands" title="Conquest of the Canary Islands">Conquest of the Canary Islands</a> 1484 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_M%C3%A1laga_(1487)" title="Siege of Málaga (1487)">Conquest of Malaga</a> 1487 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Spanish_conquest_of_Oran_(1509)" title="Spanish conquest of Oran (1509)">Conquest of Oran</a> 1509 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Conquest_of_Tunis_(1535)" title="Conquest of Tunis (1535)">Conquest of Tunis</a> 1535 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Muros_Bay" title="Battle of Muros Bay">Battle of Muros Bay</a> 1544 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Conquest_of_the_Pe%C3%B1%C3%B3n_de_V%C3%A9lez_de_la_Gomera_(1564)" title="Conquest of the Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera (1564)">Conquest of Velez</a> 1584 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Lepanto" title="Battle of Lepanto">Battle of Lepanto</a> 1571 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Ponta_Delgada" class="mw-redirect" title="Battle of Ponta Delgada">Battle of Ponta Delgada</a> 1582 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Conquest_of_the_Azores" title="Conquest of the Azores">Disembarkation of Terceira Island</a> 1583 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Kinsale" title="Siege of Kinsale">Spanish landing on Ireland</a> 1602 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Cape_St._Vincent_(1641)" title="Battle of Cape St. Vincent (1641)">Battle of Saint Vincent</a> 1603? </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Playa_Honda" title="Battle of Playa Honda">Battle of Playa Honda</a> 1617 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Recapture_of_Bahia" title="Recapture of Bahia">Battle de Pernambuco</a> 1621 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Anglo-Spanish_War_(1625%E2%80%931630)" title="Anglo-Spanish War (1625–1630)">Combate de Las Antillas</a> 1629 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Albrolhos" class="mw-redirect" title="Battle of Albrolhos">Batalla de los Abrojos</a> 1631 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Battles_of_La_Naval_de_Manila" title="Battles of La Naval de Manila">Battles of La Naval de Manila</a> 1649 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Spanish_expedition_to_Sardinia" class="mw-redirect" title="Spanish expedition to Sardinia">Conquest of Sardinia</a> 1717 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Cartagena_de_Indias" title="Battle of Cartagena de Indias">Battle of Cartagena de Indias</a> 1741 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Toulon_(1744)" title="Battle of Toulon (1744)">Battle of Toulon</a> 1744 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Action_of_9_August_1780" title="Action of 9 August 1780">Battle of the Azores</a> 1780 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Pensacola" title="Siege of Pensacola">Siege of Pensacola</a> 1781 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/British_invasions_of_the_R%C3%ADo_de_la_Plata" class="mw-redirect" title="British invasions of the Río de la Plata">Reconquest of Buenos Aires</a> 1806 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Capture_of_Rosily_Squadron" class="mw-redirect" title="Capture of Rosily Squadron">Battle of Cadiz</a> 1808 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_C%C3%A1diz" title="Siege of Cádiz">Siege of Cádiz</a> 1810 – 1812 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Callao" title="Battle of Callao">Bombardeo del Callao</a> 1866 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Alhucemas_landing" title="Alhucemas landing">Landing on Alhucemas</a> 1925 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Cape_Espartel" class="mw-redirect" title="Battle of Cape Espartel">Battle of the Strait</a> 1936 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Spanish_Civil_War" title="Spanish Civil War">Cantabrian campaign</a> 1936 – 1939 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Spanish_Civil_War" title="Spanish Civil War">Campaign of the Mediterranean</a> 1936 – 1939 </td></tr></tbody></table> </figcaption></figure> <p>Following the discovery of America and the settlement of certain Caribbean islands, such as <a href="/wiki/Cuba" title="Cuba">Cuba</a>, Spanish <a href="/wiki/Conquistador" title="Conquistador">conquistadors</a> <a href="/wiki/Hern%C3%A1n_Cort%C3%A9s" title="Hernán Cortés">Hernán Cortés</a> and <a href="/wiki/Francisco_Pizarro" title="Francisco Pizarro">Francisco Pizarro</a> were carried by the Spanish Navy to the mainland, where they conquered <a href="/wiki/Viceroyalty_of_New_Spain" class="mw-redirect" title="Viceroyalty of New Spain">Mexico</a> and <a href="/wiki/Viceroyalty_of_Peru" title="Viceroyalty of Peru">Peru</a> respectively. The navy also carried explorers to the North American mainland, including <a href="/wiki/Juan_Ponce_de_Le%C3%B3n" title="Juan Ponce de León">Juan Ponce de León</a> and <a href="/wiki/%C3%81lvarez_de_Pineda" class="mw-redirect" title="Álvarez de Pineda">Álvarez de Pineda</a>, who discovered Florida (1519) and <a href="/wiki/Texas" title="Texas">Texas</a> (1521) respectively. In 1519, Spain sent out the first expedition of <a href="/wiki/Circumnavigation" title="Circumnavigation">world circumnavigation</a> in history, which was put in the charge of the Portuguese Commander <a href="/wiki/Ferdinand_Magellan" title="Ferdinand Magellan">Ferdinand Magellan</a>. Following the death of Magellan in the <a href="/wiki/Philippines" title="Philippines">Philippines</a>, the expedition was completed under the command of <a href="/wiki/Juan_Sebasti%C3%A1n_Elcano" title="Juan Sebastián Elcano">Juan Sebastián Elcano</a> in 1522. In 1565, a follow-on expedition by <a href="/wiki/Miguel_L%C3%B3pez_de_Legazpi" title="Miguel López de Legazpi">Miguel López de Legazpi</a> was carried by the navy from <a href="/wiki/Viceroyalty_of_New_Spain" class="mw-redirect" title="Viceroyalty of New Spain">New Spain</a> (Mexico) to the Philippines via <a href="/wiki/Guam" title="Guam">Guam</a> to establish the <a href="/wiki/Spanish_East_Indies" title="Spanish East Indies">Spanish East Indies</a>, a base for trade with the <a href="/wiki/Orient" title="Orient">Orient</a>. For two and a half centuries, the <a href="/wiki/Manila_galleon" title="Manila galleon">Manila galleons</a> operated across the Pacific linking <a href="/wiki/Manila" title="Manila">Manila</a> and <a href="/wiki/Acapulco" title="Acapulco">Acapulco</a>. Until the early 17th century, the Pacific Ocean was dominated by the Spanish Navy. Aside from the <a href="/wiki/Mariana_Islands" title="Mariana Islands">Marianas</a> and <a href="/wiki/Caroline_Islands" title="Caroline Islands">Caroline Islands</a>, several naval expeditions also discovered the <a href="/wiki/Tuvalu" title="Tuvalu">Tuvalu</a> archipelago, the <a href="/wiki/Marquesas_Islands" title="Marquesas Islands">Marquesas</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Solomon_Islands" title="Solomon Islands">Solomon Islands</a> and <a href="/wiki/New_Guinea" title="New Guinea">New Guinea</a> in the South Pacific. In the quest for <a href="/wiki/Terra_Australis" title="Terra Australis">Terra Australis</a>, Spanish explorers in the 17th century also discovered the <a href="/wiki/Pitcairn_Islands" title="Pitcairn Islands">Pitcairn</a> and <a href="/wiki/Vanuatu" title="Vanuatu">Vanuatu</a> archipelagos. Most significantly, from 1565 Spanish fleets explored and colonised the Philippine archipelago, the Spanish East Indies. </p><p>After the unification of its kingdoms under the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Habsburg" title="House of Habsburg">House of Habsburg</a>, Spain maintained two largely separate fleets, one consisting chiefly of <a href="/wiki/Galley_(ship)" class="mw-redirect" title="Galley (ship)">galleys</a> for use in the Mediterranean and the other of sailing ships for the Atlantic, successors to the Aragonese and Castilian navies respectively. This arrangement continued until superseded by the decline of galley warfare during the 17th century. The completion of the <a href="/wiki/Reconquista" title="Reconquista">Reconquista</a> with the conquest of the <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Granada" class="mw-redirect" title="Kingdom of Granada">Kingdom of Granada</a> in 1492 had been followed by naval expansion in the Mediterranean, where Spain seized control of almost every significant port along the coast of <a href="/wiki/North_Africa" title="North Africa">North Africa</a> west of <a href="/wiki/Cyrenaica" title="Cyrenaica">Cyrenaica</a>, notably <a href="/wiki/Melilla" title="Melilla">Melilla</a> (captured 1497), <a href="/wiki/Mers_El_K%C3%A9bir" title="Mers El Kébir">Mers El Kébir</a> (1505), <a href="/wiki/Oran" title="Oran">Oran</a> (1509), <a href="/wiki/Algiers" title="Algiers">Algiers</a> (1510) and <a href="/wiki/Tripoli,_Libya" title="Tripoli, Libya">Tripoli</a> (<a href="/wiki/Spanish_conquest_of_Tripoli_(1510)" class="mw-redirect" title="Spanish conquest of Tripoli (1510)">1510</a>), which marked the furthest point of this advance. However, the hinterlands of these ports remained under the control of their Muslim and <a href="/wiki/Berber_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Berber people">Berber</a> inhabitants, and the expanding naval power of the <a href="/wiki/Ottoman_Empire" title="Ottoman Empire">Ottoman Empire</a> brought about a major Islamic counter-offensive, which embroiled Spain in decades of intense warfare for control of the Mediterranean.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> From the 1570s, the lengthy <a href="/wiki/Eighty_Years%27_War" title="Eighty Years' War">Dutch Revolt</a> increasingly challenged Spanish sea power, producing powerful rebel naval forces that attacked Spanish shipping and in time made Spain's sea communications with its possessions in the Low Countries difficult. Most notable of these attacks was the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Gibraltar_(1607)" title="Battle of Gibraltar (1607)">Battle of Gibraltar</a> in 1607, in which a Dutch <a href="/wiki/Squadron_(naval)" title="Squadron (naval)">squadron</a> destroyed a fleet of <a href="/wiki/Galleon" title="Galleon">galleons</a> at anchor in the confines of the bay. This naval war took on a global dimension with actions in the Caribbean and the Far East, notably around the Philippines. Spain's response to its problems included the encouragement of <a href="/wiki/Privateer" title="Privateer">privateers</a> based in the <a href="/wiki/Spanish_Netherlands" title="Spanish Netherlands">Spanish Netherlands</a> and known from their main base as <a href="/wiki/Dunkirkers" title="Dunkirkers">Dunkirkers</a>, who preyed on Dutch merchant ships and <a href="/wiki/Fishing_vessel" title="Fishing vessel">fishing trawlers</a>. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Battle_of_Lepanto_1571.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/Battle_of_Lepanto_1571.jpg/280px-Battle_of_Lepanto_1571.jpg" decoding="async" width="280" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/Battle_of_Lepanto_1571.jpg/420px-Battle_of_Lepanto_1571.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/Battle_of_Lepanto_1571.jpg/560px-Battle_of_Lepanto_1571.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2500" data-file-height="1341" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Lepanto" title="Battle of Lepanto">Battle of Lepanto</a>, 1571</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Spanish_Galleon.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Spanish_Galleon.jpg/190px-Spanish_Galleon.jpg" decoding="async" width="190" height="261" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Spanish_Galleon.jpg/285px-Spanish_Galleon.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/08/Spanish_Galleon.jpg 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="412" /></a><figcaption>A 17th-century Spanish galleon</figcaption></figure> <p>At the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Lepanto" title="Battle of Lepanto">Battle of Lepanto</a> (1571), the Holy League, formed by Spain, Venice, the <a href="/wiki/Papal_States" title="Papal States">Papal States</a> and other Christian allies, inflicted a great defeat on the <a href="/wiki/Ottoman_Navy" title="Ottoman Navy">Ottoman Navy</a>, stopping Muslim forces from gaining uncontested control of the eastern Mediterranean. </p><p>In 1580, Spain entered a <a href="/wiki/Iberian_Union" title="Iberian Union">dynastic union</a> with Portugal, reaching the apex of its naval power as a result of the combined might of its navy with the <a href="/wiki/Portuguese_Navy" title="Portuguese Navy">Portuguese navy</a>, and effectively becoming the most powerful maritime force in the world. </p><p>In the 1580s, the conflict in the Netherlands drew England into <a href="/wiki/Anglo-Spanish_War_(1585%E2%80%931604)" title="Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604)">war with Spain</a>, creating a further menace to Spanish shipping. The effort to neutralise this threat led to a <a href="/wiki/Spanish_Armada" title="Spanish Armada">disastrous attempt to invade England</a> in 1588, however, the disaster of the <a href="/wiki/English_Armada" title="English Armada">English Armada</a> the following year managed to return the balance between the belligerents. The defeat of 1588 led to a reform of fleet operations. The navy at this time was not a single operation but consisted of various fleets, made up mainly of armed merchantmen with escorts of royal ships. The Armada fiasco marked a turning point in naval warfare, where gunnery was now more important than ramming and boarding and so Spanish ships were equipped with purpose built naval guns. During the 1590s, the expansion of these fleets allowed a great increase in overseas trade and a massive increase in the importation of luxuries and silver. Nevertheless, inadequate port defences allowed an Anglo-Dutch force to <a href="/wiki/Capture_of_C%C3%A1diz" title="Capture of Cádiz">raid Cádiz</a> in 1596, and though unsuccessful in its objective of capturing the silver from the just returned convoy, was able to inflict great damage upon the city. Port defences at Cádiz were upgraded and all attempts to repeat the attack in the following centuries would fail. </p><p>Meanwhile, Spanish ships were able to step up operations in the English Channel, the <a href="/wiki/North_Sea" title="North Sea">North Sea</a> and towards Ireland. They were able to capture many enemy ships, merchant and military, in the early decades of the 17th century and provide military supplies to Spanish armies in France and the Low Countries and to Irish rebels in Ireland. In the early 17th century Spanish fleets inflicted major defeats on Ottoman Empire in the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Cape_Corvo" title="Battle of Cape Corvo">Battle of Cape Corvo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Cape_Celidonia" title="Battle of Cape Celidonia">Cape Celidonia</a> along with a <a href="/wiki/Raid_on_Constantinople" title="Raid on Constantinople">raid on Constantinople</a>, along with multiple raids on the <a href="/wiki/Ottoman_Tunisia" title="Ottoman Tunisia">Ottoman Tunisia</a>. These battles stabilised the situation on the <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Mediterranean" title="Eastern Mediterranean">eastern Mediterranean</a> front. However, in 1639, a Dutch fleet under <a href="/wiki/Maarten_Tromp" title="Maarten Tromp">Maarten Tromp</a> decisively defeated a large Spanish fleet in the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Downs" title="Battle of the Downs">Battle of the Downs</a> and put an end to Spanish operations in northern waters. </p><p>By the middle of the 17th century, Spain had been drained by the vast strains of the <a href="/wiki/Thirty_Years%27_War" title="Thirty Years' War">Thirty Years'</a> and related wars and began to slip into a slow decline. During the middle to late decades of the century, the Dutch, English and French were able to take advantage of Spain's shrinking, run-down and increasingly underequipped fleets. Military priorities in continental Europe meant that naval affairs were increasingly neglected. The Dutch took control of the <a href="/wiki/Lesser_Antilles" title="Lesser Antilles">smaller islands of the Caribbean</a>, while England conquered <a href="/wiki/Jamaica" title="Jamaica">Jamaica</a> and France the western part of <a href="/wiki/Santo_Domingo" title="Santo Domingo">Santo Domingo</a>. These territories became bases for raids on Spanish New World ports and shipping by pirates and privateers. The Spanish concentrated their efforts in keeping the most important islands, such as Cuba, <a href="/wiki/Puerto_Rico" title="Puerto Rico">Puerto Rico</a> and the majority of Santo Domingo, while the system of <a href="/wiki/Spanish_treasure_fleets" class="mw-redirect" title="Spanish treasure fleets">treasure fleets</a>, despite being greatly diminished, was rarely defeated in safely conveying its freight of silver and Asian luxuries across the Atlantic to Europe. Only two such convoys were ever lost to enemy action with their cargo, one to a <a href="/wiki/Battle_in_the_Bay_of_Matanzas" title="Battle in the Bay of Matanzas">Dutch fleet in 1628</a> and another to an <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_C%C3%A1diz_(1656)" title="Battle of Cádiz (1656)">English fleet in 1656</a>. A third convoy was destroyed at anchor by another <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Santa_Cruz_de_Tenerife_(1657)" title="Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife (1657)">English attack in 1657</a>, but it had already unloaded its treasure. </p><p>By the time of the wars of the <a href="/wiki/War_of_the_Grand_Alliance" class="mw-redirect" title="War of the Grand Alliance">Grand Alliance (1688–97)</a> and the <a href="/wiki/War_of_the_Spanish_Succession" title="War of the Spanish Succession">Spanish Succession (1702–14)</a>, the Habsburg regime had decided that it was more cost effective to rely on allied fleets, Anglo-Dutch and French respectively, than to invest in its own fleets. Around this time, a service of defensive privateering based on America named <i><a href="/wiki/Guarda_costa" title="Guarda costa">guarda costa</a></i> was established. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_Bourbon_era">The Bourbon era</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Spanish_Navy&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: The Bourbon era"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The War of the Spanish Succession arose after the establishment on the Spanish throne of a <a href="/wiki/House_of_Bourbon" title="House of Bourbon">House of Bourbon</a> king, following the extinction of the Spanish Habsburg line. The internal division between supporters of a Habsburg and those of a Bourbon king led to a civil war and ultimately to the loss of Sicily, Sardinia, <a href="/wiki/Menorca" title="Menorca">Menorca</a> and <a href="/wiki/Gibraltar" title="Gibraltar">Gibraltar</a>. Gibraltar and Menorca were captured by Anglo-Dutch forces fighting under the Spanish flag of Habsburg contender <a href="/wiki/Charles_VI,_Holy_Roman_Emperor" title="Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor">Charles VI</a>. Menorca was ultimately surrendered to Spain years later. At the end of the War of Spanish Succession, Spain's possessions in the Low Countries and <a href="/wiki/Italian_peninsula" title="Italian peninsula">mainland Italy</a> were ceded to <a href="/wiki/Austrian_monarchy" class="mw-redirect" title="Austrian monarchy">Austria</a>. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:FedericoGravinaYN%C3%A1poliAn%C3%B3nimoHacia1810.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/FedericoGravinaYN%C3%A1poliAn%C3%B3nimoHacia1810.jpg/220px-FedericoGravinaYN%C3%A1poliAn%C3%B3nimoHacia1810.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="267" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/FedericoGravinaYN%C3%A1poliAn%C3%B3nimoHacia1810.jpg/330px-FedericoGravinaYN%C3%A1poliAn%C3%B3nimoHacia1810.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/FedericoGravinaYN%C3%A1poliAn%C3%B3nimoHacia1810.jpg/440px-FedericoGravinaYN%C3%A1poliAn%C3%B3nimoHacia1810.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1753" data-file-height="2126" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Federico_Gravina" title="Federico Gravina">Federico Gravina</a>, one of the Spanish heroes of the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Trafalgar" title="Battle of Trafalgar">Battle of Trafalgar</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Battle_of_Cape_Passaro,_11_August_1718_RMG_BHC0351.tiff" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/The_Battle_of_Cape_Passaro%2C_11_August_1718_RMG_BHC0351.tiff/lossy-page1-200px-The_Battle_of_Cape_Passaro%2C_11_August_1718_RMG_BHC0351.tiff.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="126" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/The_Battle_of_Cape_Passaro%2C_11_August_1718_RMG_BHC0351.tiff/lossy-page1-300px-The_Battle_of_Cape_Passaro%2C_11_August_1718_RMG_BHC0351.tiff.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/The_Battle_of_Cape_Passaro%2C_11_August_1718_RMG_BHC0351.tiff/lossy-page1-400px-The_Battle_of_Cape_Passaro%2C_11_August_1718_RMG_BHC0351.tiff.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4739" data-file-height="2983" /></a><figcaption>A painting of the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Cape_Passaro" title="Battle of Cape Passaro">Battle of Cape Passaro</a> by <a href="/wiki/Richard_Paton" title="Richard Paton">Richard Paton</a></figcaption></figure> <p>Attempting to reverse the losses of the previous war, in the <a href="/wiki/War_of_the_Quadruple_Alliance" title="War of the Quadruple Alliance">War of the Quadruple Alliance</a> (1718–20) the Spanish Navy successfully convoyed armies to invade Sicily and <a href="/wiki/Sardinia" title="Sardinia">Sardinia</a>, but the poorly maintained escort fleet was destroyed by the British in the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Cape_Passaro" title="Battle of Cape Passaro">Battle of Cape Passaro</a> and the Spanish invasion army was defeated in Italy by the Austrians. A major program to renovate and reorganise the run-down navy was begun. A <i>secretaría</i> (ministry) of the army and navy had been established by the Bourbon regime as early as 1714; which centralized the command and administration of the different fleets. Following the war of Quadruple Alliance, a program of rigorous standardization was introduced in ships, operations, and administration. Given the needs of its empire, Spanish warship designs tended to be more orientated towards long-range escort and patrol duties than for battle. A major reform of the Spanish Navy was initiated, updating its ships and administration, which was helped by French and Italian experts, although Spaniards, most notably <a href="/wiki/Antonio_Castaneta" class="mw-redirect" title="Antonio Castaneta">Antonio Castaneta</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jorge_Juan_y_Santacilia" title="Jorge Juan y Santacilia">Jorge Juan</a>, soon rose to prominence in this work, which made Spain a leader in warship design and quality again, as was demonstrated by ships like <i><a href="/wiki/HMS_Princess_(1740)" title="HMS Princess (1740)">Princesa</a></i>. A major naval yard was established at <a href="/wiki/Havana" title="Havana">Havana</a>, enabling the navy to maintain a permanent force in the Americas for the defence of the colonies and the suppression of piracy and smuggling, complemented by <i>guarda costa</i> privateers. In metropolitan Spain, significant forest reconnaissance operations were regularly undertaken by Spanish naval officers to seek out sources of <a href="/wiki/Timber" class="mw-redirect" title="Timber">timber</a> suitable for shipbuilding.<sup id="cite_ref-Wing2014_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wing2014-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Nav%C3%ADo_santa_ana_de_112_ca%C3%B1ones.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Nav%C3%ADo_santa_ana_de_112_ca%C3%B1ones.jpg/220px-Nav%C3%ADo_santa_ana_de_112_ca%C3%B1ones.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="163" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Nav%C3%ADo_santa_ana_de_112_ca%C3%B1ones.jpg/330px-Nav%C3%ADo_santa_ana_de_112_ca%C3%B1ones.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Nav%C3%ADo_santa_ana_de_112_ca%C3%B1ones.jpg/440px-Nav%C3%ADo_santa_ana_de_112_ca%C3%B1ones.jpg 2x" data-file-width="799" data-file-height="593" /></a><figcaption><i>Navío</i> or ship-of-the-line, <a href="/wiki/Spanish_ship_Santa_Ana_(1784)" title="Spanish ship Santa Ana (1784)"><i>Santa Ana</i></a>, 1784–1814</figcaption></figure> <p>During the <a href="/wiki/War_of_the_Polish_Succession" title="War of the Polish Succession">War of the Polish Succession</a> (1733–38), a renewed attempt to regain the lost Italian territories for the Bourbon dynasty was successful; with the French as allies and the British and Dutch neutral, Spain launched a campaign by sea and retook Sicily and southern Italy from Austria. In the <a href="/wiki/War_of_Jenkins%27_Ear" title="War of Jenkins' Ear">War of Jenkins' Ear</a>, the navy showed it was able to maintain communications with the American colonies and resupply Spanish forces in Italy in the face of British naval opposition. The navy played an important part in the decisive <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Cartagena_de_Indias" title="Battle of Cartagena de Indias">Battle of Cartagena de Indias</a> in modern-day <a href="/wiki/Colombia" title="Colombia">Colombia</a>, where a massive British invasion fleet and army were defeated by a smaller Spanish force commanded by able strategist <a href="/wiki/Admiral_Blas_de_Lezo" class="mw-redirect" title="Admiral Blas de Lezo">Blas de Lezo</a>. This Spanish victory prolonged Spain's supremacy in the Americas until the early 19th century. The program of naval renovation was continued and by the 1750s the Spanish navy had outstripped the Dutch to become the third most powerful in the world, behind only those of Britain and France. </p><p>Joining France against Britain near the end of the <a href="/wiki/Seven_Years%27_War" title="Seven Years' War">Seven Years' War</a> (1756–63), the navy failed to prevent the British <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Havana_(1762)" class="mw-redirect" title="Battle of Havana (1762)">capturing Havana</a>, during which the Spanish squadron present was also captured. In the <a href="/wiki/American_War_of_Independence" class="mw-redirect" title="American War of Independence">American War of Independence</a> (1775–83), the Spanish Navy was essential to the establishment, in combination with the French and Dutch navies, of a numerical advantage that stretched British naval resources. They played a vital role, along with the French and Dutch, in maintaining military supplies to the American rebels. The navy also played a key role in the Spanish Army-led operations that defeated the British in Florida. The bulk of the purely naval combat on the allied side fell to the <a href="/wiki/French_Navy" title="French Navy">French Navy</a>, although Spain achieved lucrative successes with the capture of two great British convoys meant for the resupply of British forces and loyalists in North America. Joint operations with France resulted in the <a href="/wiki/Invasion_of_Menorca,_1781" class="mw-redirect" title="Invasion of Menorca, 1781">capture of Menorca</a> but failed in the <a href="/wiki/Great_Siege_of_Gibraltar" title="Great Siege of Gibraltar">siege of Gibraltar</a>. This time also marked the creation of <i><a href="/wiki/Fuerzas_sutiles" title="Fuerzas sutiles">fuerzas sutiles</a></i>, a policy based on <a href="/wiki/Gunboat" title="Gunboat">gunboats</a> and small vessels. </p><p>Having initially opposed France in the <a href="/wiki/French_Revolutionary_Wars" title="French Revolutionary Wars">French Revolutionary Wars</a> (1792–1802), Spain changed sides in 1796, but defeat by the British a few months later in the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Cape_St._Vincent_(1797)" title="Battle of Cape St. Vincent (1797)">Battle of Cape St. Vincent (1797)</a> and <a href="/wiki/Invasion_of_Trinidad_(1797)" title="Invasion of Trinidad (1797)">Trinidad</a> (1798) was followed by the blockade of the main Spanish fleet in Cádiz. The run down of naval operations had as much to do with the confused political situation in Spain as it had to do with the blockade. The British blockade of Spain's ports was of limited success and an attempt to <a href="/wiki/Assault_on_C%C3%A1diz_(1797)" class="mw-redirect" title="Assault on Cádiz (1797)">attack Cádiz</a> was defeated; ships on special missions and convoys successfully evaded the Cádiz blockade and other ports continued to operate with little difficulty, but the main battle fleets were largely inactive. The blockade was lifted with the <a href="/wiki/Peace_of_Amiens" class="mw-redirect" title="Peace of Amiens">Peace of Amiens</a> 1802. <a href="/wiki/Anglo-Spanish_War_(1796%E2%80%931808)" title="Anglo-Spanish War (1796–1808)">The war</a> recommenced in 1804 and ended in 1808 when the Spain and the United Kingdom became allied against <a href="/wiki/Napoleon" title="Napoleon">Napoleon</a>. As in the first part, Cádiz was blockaded and Spanish naval activity was minimal. The most notable event was Spanish involvement in the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Trafalgar" title="Battle of Trafalgar">Battle of Trafalgar</a> under French leadership. This resulted in the Spanish Navy losing eleven <a href="/wiki/Ships-of-the-line" class="mw-redirect" title="Ships-of-the-line">ships-of-the-line</a> or over a quarter of its line-of-battle ships. After Spain became allied with the United Kingdom in 1808 in its <a href="/wiki/Peninsular_war" class="mw-redirect" title="Peninsular war">war of independence</a>, the Spanish Navy <a href="/wiki/Capture_of_the_Rosily_Squadron" title="Capture of the Rosily Squadron">joined the war effort</a> against Napoleon. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_19th_century">The 19th century</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Spanish_Navy&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: The 19th century"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Peral1888.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Peral1888.jpg/220px-Peral1888.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="70" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Peral1888.jpg/330px-Peral1888.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Peral1888.jpg/440px-Peral1888.jpg 2x" data-file-width="608" data-file-height="193" /></a><figcaption>The experimental submarine <a href="/wiki/Spanish_submarine_Peral" title="Spanish submarine Peral"><i>Peral</i></a>, 1888</figcaption></figure> <p>The 1820s saw the loss of most of the <a href="/wiki/Spanish_Empire" title="Spanish Empire">Spanish Empire</a> in the Americas. With the empire greatly reduced in size and Spain divided and unstable after its own war of independence, the navy lost its importance and shrank greatly. </p><p>The first new steam-driven vessel (<i>Isabel II</i>) was purchased from the United Kingdom in 1834. </p><p>However, in the 1850s and 1860s, particularly under the prime-ministership of <a href="/wiki/Leopold_O%27Donnell" class="mw-redirect" title="Leopold O'Donnell">General O'Donnell</a>, significant investments were made in the Spanish naval squadrons of the Pacific. A new steam-powered naval squadron sailed around the Pacific escorting a Spanish scientific expedition and unfortunately became entangled in what has been billed the <a href="/wiki/Chincha_Islands_War" title="Chincha Islands War">First War of the Pacific</a> from 1864 to 1871. During the conflict, the Spanish massed a fleet of 15 vessels to combat the combined navies of Peru, Chile, and Ecuador. </p> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Spanish_Fleet,_Suez_Canal_1898.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Spanish_Fleet%2C_Suez_Canal_1898.jpg/250px-Spanish_Fleet%2C_Suez_Canal_1898.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="170" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Spanish_Fleet%2C_Suez_Canal_1898.jpg/375px-Spanish_Fleet%2C_Suez_Canal_1898.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Spanish_Fleet%2C_Suez_Canal_1898.jpg/500px-Spanish_Fleet%2C_Suez_Canal_1898.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2084" data-file-height="1418" /></a><figcaption>Spanish fleet of Admiral <a href="/wiki/Manuel_de_la_C%C3%A1mara" title="Manuel de la Cámara">Cámara</a> anchored in the Suez Canal in 1898, formed among others by the battleship <a href="/wiki/Spanish_battleship_Pelayo" title="Spanish battleship Pelayo"><i>Pelayo</i></a> or the cruiser <a href="/wiki/Spanish_cruiser_Emperador_Carlos_V" title="Spanish cruiser Emperador Carlos V"><i>Emperador Carlos V</i></a> and that ultimately did not intervene in the <a href="/wiki/Spanish%E2%80%93American_War" title="Spanish–American War">Spanish–American War</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p>The 1890s saw the Spanish Navy gain several <a href="/wiki/Armored_cruiser" title="Armored cruiser">armored cruisers</a>—important for maintaining connection with the Spanish Empire's remaining colonies—including the <a href="/wiki/Spanish_cruiser_Emperador_Carlos_V" title="Spanish cruiser Emperador Carlos V"><i>Emperador Carlos V</i></a>. As of 1896, according to the plans of Admiral <a href="/w/index.php?title=Jos%C3%A9_Mar%C3%ADa_Ber%C3%A1nger&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="José María Beránger (page does not exist)">José María Beránger</a>, there were three naval divisions based at <a href="/wiki/C%C3%A1diz,_Spain" class="mw-redirect" title="Cádiz, Spain">Cádiz</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ferrol,_Spain" title="Ferrol, Spain">Ferrol</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Cartagena,_Spain" title="Cartagena, Spain">Cartagena</a>. Each division was composed of <a href="/wiki/Ironclad_warship" title="Ironclad warship">ironclads</a>, in addition to auxiliary squadrons for defense of the Spanish coastline. That year the Armada consisted of one <a href="/wiki/Battleship" title="Battleship">battleship</a>, eight cruisers of the first class, six of the second class, and nine of the third class, as well as 38 torpedo craft. There were an additional ten vessels under construction. As of 1896 there were 1,002 officers in the navy, along with 725 mechanics, 14,000 sailors, and 9,000 marines. Their numbers were maintained by conscription of the seafaring population.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>During the <a href="/wiki/Spanish%E2%80%93American_War" title="Spanish–American War">Spanish–American War</a> in 1898, a badly supported and equipped Spanish fleet of four armored cruisers and two <a href="/wiki/Destroyer" title="Destroyer">destroyers</a> was overwhelmed by numerically and technically superior forces (three new battleships, one new second-class battleship, and one large armored cruiser) as it tried to break out of an American blockade in the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Santiago_de_Cuba" title="Battle of Santiago de Cuba">Battle of Santiago de Cuba</a>. <a href="/wiki/Admiral_Cervera" class="mw-redirect" title="Admiral Cervera">Admiral Cervera</a>'s squadron was overrun in an attempt to break a powerful American blockade off Cuba. In the Philippines, a squadron, made up of aging ships, including some obsolete cruisers, had already been sacrificed in a token gesture in <a href="/wiki/Manila_Bay" title="Manila Bay">Manila Bay</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Manila_Bay" title="Battle of Manila Bay">Battle of Manila Bay</a> took place on 1 May 1898. The American Asiatic Squadron under Commodore <a href="/wiki/George_Dewey" title="George Dewey">George Dewey</a> engaged and destroyed the Spanish Pacific Squadron under Admiral <a href="/wiki/Patricio_Montojo_y_Pasar%C3%B3n" title="Patricio Montojo y Pasarón">Patricio Montojo y Pasarón</a>. The engagement took place in Manila Bay in the Philippines, and was the first major engagement of the Spanish–American War. This war marked the end for the Spanish Navy as a global maritime force. </p><p>At the end of the 19th century, the Spanish Navy adopted the <i><a href="/wiki/Salve_Marinera" title="Salve Marinera">Salve Marinera</a></i>, a hymn to the <a href="/wiki/Virgin_Mary" class="mw-redirect" title="Virgin Mary">Virgin Mary</a> as <a href="/wiki/Our_Lady,_Star_of_the_Sea" title="Our Lady, Star of the Sea">Stella Maris</a>, as its official <a href="/wiki/Anthem" title="Anthem">anthem</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_20th_and_21st_centuries">The 20th and 21st centuries</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Spanish_Navy&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: The 20th and 21st centuries"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Acorazado_Espa%C3%B1a.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/Acorazado_Espa%C3%B1a.jpg/220px-Acorazado_Espa%C3%B1a.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="131" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/Acorazado_Espa%C3%B1a.jpg/330px-Acorazado_Espa%C3%B1a.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/Acorazado_Espa%C3%B1a.jpg/440px-Acorazado_Espa%C3%B1a.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="956" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Spanish_battleship_Espa%C3%B1a" title="Spanish battleship España">Spanish battleship <i>España</i></a> (launched in 1913)</figcaption></figure> <p>During the <a href="/wiki/Rif_War_(1920)" class="mw-redirect" title="Rif War (1920)">Rif War</a> in Morocco, the Spanish Navy conducted operations along the coast, including the <a href="/wiki/Alhucemas_landing" title="Alhucemas landing">Alhucemas landing</a> in 1925, the first air-naval landing of the world. At that time, the navy developed a <a href="/wiki/Naval_aviation" title="Naval aviation">naval aviation</a> branch, the <i>Aeronáutica naval</i>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="The_Spanish_Republic_and_Spanish_Civil_War">The Spanish Republic and Spanish Civil War</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Spanish_Navy&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: The Spanish Republic and Spanish Civil War"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Spanish_Republican_Navy" title="Spanish Republican Navy">Spanish Republican Navy</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Canarias_C21_2.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Canarias_C21_2.jpg/220px-Canarias_C21_2.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="129" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Canarias_C21_2.jpg/330px-Canarias_C21_2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Canarias_C21_2.jpg/440px-Canarias_C21_2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1636" data-file-height="963" /></a><figcaption>The cruiser <a href="/wiki/Spanish_cruiser_Canarias" title="Spanish cruiser Canarias"><i>Canarias</i></a> was the flagship of the Spanish Navy until its discharge in 1975</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1931, following the proclamation of the <a href="/wiki/Second_Spanish_Republic" title="Second Spanish Republic">Second Spanish Republic</a>, the Navy of the Spanish Kingdom became the <a href="/wiki/Spanish_Republican_Navy" title="Spanish Republican Navy">Spanish Republican Navy</a>. <a href="/wiki/Juan_Bautista_Aznar-Caba%C3%B1as" title="Juan Bautista Aznar-Cabañas">Admiral Aznar</a>'s casual comment: <i>"Do you think it was a little thing what happened yesterday, that Spain went to bed as a monarchy and rose as a republic"</i> became instantly famous, going quickly around <a href="/wiki/Madrid" title="Madrid">Madrid</a> and around Spain, making people accept the fact and setting a more relaxed mood.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Spanish Republican Navy introduced a few changes in the <a href="/wiki/Flag_of_the_Second_Spanish_Republic" title="Flag of the Second Spanish Republic">flags and ensigns</a>, as well as in the navy officer rank insignia.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Executive_curl" title="Executive curl">executive curl</a> <i>(La coca)</i> was replaced by a golden five-pointed star and the royal crown of the brass buttons and of the officers' breastplates <i>(La gola)</i> became a <a href="/wiki/Mural_crown" title="Mural crown">mural crown</a>. </p><p>The Spanish Republican Navy became divided after the <a href="/wiki/Spanish_coup_of_July_1936" title="Spanish coup of July 1936">coup of July 1936</a> that led to the <a href="/wiki/Spanish_Civil_War" title="Spanish Civil War">Spanish Civil War</a> (1936–39). The fleet's two <a href="/wiki/Espa%C3%B1a-class_battleship" title="España-class battleship">small dreadnoughts</a>, one <a href="/wiki/Spanish_cruiser_Baleares" title="Spanish cruiser Baleares">heavy cruiser</a>, one <a href="/wiki/Spanish_destroyer_Almirante_Ferr%C3%A1ndiz_(1928)" title="Spanish destroyer Almirante Ferrándiz (1928)">large destroyer</a> and half a dozen submarines and auxiliary vessels were lost in the course of the conflict. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="World_War_II">World War II</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Spanish_Navy&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: World War II"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Like the rest of the Spanish armed forces, the Spanish Francoist Navy maintained <a href="/wiki/Francisco_Franco" title="Francisco Franco">Francisco Franco</a>'s policy of neutrality during <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Post_World_War_II">Post World War II</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Spanish_Navy&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Post World War II"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Torrevieja_-_Museo_Flotante,_Submarino_S-61_(1).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Torrevieja_-_Museo_Flotante%2C_Submarino_S-61_%281%29.jpg/220px-Torrevieja_-_Museo_Flotante%2C_Submarino_S-61_%281%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Torrevieja_-_Museo_Flotante%2C_Submarino_S-61_%281%29.jpg/330px-Torrevieja_-_Museo_Flotante%2C_Submarino_S-61_%281%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Torrevieja_-_Museo_Flotante%2C_Submarino_S-61_%281%29.jpg/440px-Torrevieja_-_Museo_Flotante%2C_Submarino_S-61_%281%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2048" data-file-height="1536" /></a><figcaption>Submarine <a href="/wiki/Spanish_submarine_Delf%C3%ADn_(S61)" title="Spanish submarine Delfín (S61)"><i>Delfín</i></a>, preserved as <a href="/wiki/Museum_ship" title="Museum ship">museum ship</a> in <a href="/wiki/Torrevieja" title="Torrevieja">Torrevieja</a> (<a href="/wiki/Province_of_Alicante" title="Province of Alicante">Alicante</a>), becoming the first "floating museum" of these characteristics in Spain</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Spanish_carrier_Dedalo_at_Naval_Station_Rota_1976.JPEG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Spanish_carrier_Dedalo_at_Naval_Station_Rota_1976.JPEG/220px-Spanish_carrier_Dedalo_at_Naval_Station_Rota_1976.JPEG" decoding="async" width="220" height="148" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Spanish_carrier_Dedalo_at_Naval_Station_Rota_1976.JPEG/330px-Spanish_carrier_Dedalo_at_Naval_Station_Rota_1976.JPEG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Spanish_carrier_Dedalo_at_Naval_Station_Rota_1976.JPEG/440px-Spanish_carrier_Dedalo_at_Naval_Station_Rota_1976.JPEG 2x" data-file-width="3000" data-file-height="2018" /></a><figcaption>Spanish <a href="/wiki/Aircraft_carrier" title="Aircraft carrier">aircraft carrier</a> <a href="/wiki/Spanish_aircraft_carrier_D%C3%A9dalo" title="Spanish aircraft carrier Dédalo"><i>Dédalo</i></a> (ex <a href="/wiki/USS_Cabot_(CVL-28)" title="USS Cabot (CVL-28)">USS <i>Cabot</i></a>), flagship between 1975 and 1989, tied up at a pier at <a href="/wiki/Naval_Station_Rota" title="Naval Station Rota">Naval Station Rota</a> in 1976</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:SNS_Principe_de_Asturias_(R11)_during_Dragon_Hammer_92.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/SNS_Principe_de_Asturias_%28R11%29_during_Dragon_Hammer_92.jpg/220px-SNS_Principe_de_Asturias_%28R11%29_during_Dragon_Hammer_92.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/SNS_Principe_de_Asturias_%28R11%29_during_Dragon_Hammer_92.jpg/330px-SNS_Principe_de_Asturias_%28R11%29_during_Dragon_Hammer_92.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/SNS_Principe_de_Asturias_%28R11%29_during_Dragon_Hammer_92.jpg/440px-SNS_Principe_de_Asturias_%28R11%29_during_Dragon_Hammer_92.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2899" data-file-height="1932" /></a><figcaption>Spanish aircraft carrier <a href="/wiki/Spanish_aircraft_carrier_Pr%C3%ADncipe_de_Asturias" title="Spanish aircraft carrier Príncipe de Asturias"><i>Príncipe de Asturias</i></a>, flagship between 1989 and 2010, during the joint exercise Dragon Hammer '92</figcaption></figure> <p>Since the mid-20th century, the Spanish Navy began a process of reorganization to once again become one of the major navies of the world. After the development of the <a href="/wiki/Baleares-class_frigate" title="Baleares-class frigate"><i>Baleares</i>-class</a> <a href="/wiki/Frigate" title="Frigate">frigates</a> based on the <a href="/wiki/US_Navy" class="mw-redirect" title="US Navy">US Navy</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Knox-class_frigate" title="Knox-class frigate"><i>Knox</i> class</a>, the Spanish Navy embraced the American <a href="/wiki/Naval_doctrine" class="mw-redirect" title="Naval doctrine">naval doctrine</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Spain became a member of <a href="/wiki/NATO" title="NATO">NATO</a> in 1982 and the Armada Española has taken part in many coalition peacekeeping operations, from <a href="/wiki/SFOR" class="mw-redirect" title="SFOR">SFOR</a> to <a href="/wiki/Haiti" title="Haiti">Haiti</a> and other locations around the world. The Armada is a modern navy with an <a href="/wiki/Aircraft_carrier" title="Aircraft carrier">aircraft carrier</a> group, a modern <a href="/wiki/Spanish_ship_Juan_Carlos_I_(L61)" class="mw-redirect" title="Spanish ship Juan Carlos I (L61)">strategic amphibious ship</a> (which replaced a dedicated <a href="/wiki/Spanish_aircraft_carrier_Pr%C3%ADncipe_de_Asturias" title="Spanish aircraft carrier Príncipe de Asturias">aircraft carrier</a> in 2011), modern frigates (F-100 class) with the <a href="/wiki/Aegis_Combat_System" title="Aegis Combat System">Aegis Combat System</a>, F-80-class frigates, <a href="/wiki/Minesweeper" title="Minesweeper">minesweepers</a>, new <a href="/wiki/S-80-class_submarine" class="mw-redirect" title="S-80-class submarine">S-80-class</a> <a href="/wiki/Submarine" title="Submarine">submarines</a>, amphibious ships and various other ships, including oceanographic <a href="/wiki/Research_ship" class="mw-redirect" title="Research ship">research ships</a>. </p><p>The Armada's <a href="/wiki/Special_operations" title="Special operations">special operations</a> and unconventional warfare capability is embodied in the Naval Special Warfare Command (<b>Mando de Guerra Naval Especial</b>), which is under the direct control of the Admiral of the Fleet. The unit in charge of special operations is the <i>Naval Special Warfare Force</i> (<b>Fuerza de Guerra Naval Especial</b>), which is a merge of the previous <i>Special Operations Unit</i> (<a href="/wiki/Unidad_de_Operaciones_Especiales_(UOE)" class="mw-redirect" title="Unidad de Operaciones Especiales (UOE)">Unidad de Operaciones Especiales (UOE)</a>) and the <i>Special</i> <i>Combat Diver Unit</i> (<b>Unidad Especial de Buceadores de Combate (UEBC)</b>). This unit is trained in maritime counter-terrorism, specialized combat diving and swimming, coastal infiltration, ship boarding, direct action, special reconnaissance, hydrographic reconnaissance and underwater demolitions. </p><p>Armada officers receive their education at the <a href="/wiki/Escuela_Naval_Militar" class="mw-redirect" title="Escuela Naval Militar">Spanish Naval Academy</a> (ENM). They are recruited through two different methods: </p> <ul><li><b>Militar de Complemento:</b> Similar to the U.S. <a href="/wiki/ROTC" class="mw-redirect" title="ROTC">ROTC</a> program, students are college graduates who enroll in the navy. They spend a year at the Naval Academy and then are commissioned as ensigns and Marine second lieutenants. This path is growing in prestige. Their career stops at the rank of commander (for the Navy) and for the Marines, lieutenant colonel.</li> <li><b>Militar de Carrera:</b> Students spend one year in the Naval Academy if they apply to the Supply Branch or the Engineering Branch, and five years if they apply as General Branch or Marines, receiving a university degree-equivalent upon graduation and being commissioned as ensigns and Marine second lieutenants.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Current_status">Current status</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Spanish_Navy&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Current status"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1246091330">.mw-parser-output .sidebar{width:22em;float:right;clear:right;margin:0.5em 0 1em 1em;background:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa);border:1px solid 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a{color:var(--color-progressive)!important}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .sidebar{display:none!important}}</style><table class="sidebar nomobile nowraplinks"><tbody><tr><th class="sidebar-title">Spanish Navy</th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Emblem_of_the_Spanish_Navy.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Emblem_of_the_Spanish_Navy.svg/40px-Emblem_of_the_Spanish_Navy.svg.png" decoding="async" width="40" height="72" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Emblem_of_the_Spanish_Navy.svg/60px-Emblem_of_the_Spanish_Navy.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Emblem_of_the_Spanish_Navy.svg/80px-Emblem_of_the_Spanish_Navy.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1889" data-file-height="3401" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading"> Components</th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content" style="text-align:left"> <a href="/wiki/List_of_active_Spanish_Navy_ships" title="List of active Spanish Navy ships">Surface Fleet</a><br /> <a href="/wiki/Spanish_Naval_Air_Arm" class="mw-redirect" title="Spanish Naval Air Arm">Spanish Naval Air Arm</a><br /> <a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#Submarines">Submarine Service</a><br /> <a href="/wiki/Spanish_Navy_Marines" class="mw-redirect" title="Spanish Navy Marines">Spanish Navy Marines</a><br /> <a href="/wiki/Unidad_de_Operaciones_Especiales" title="Unidad de Operaciones Especiales">Special Operations</a></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading"> History</th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content" style="text-align:left"> <a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#History">History of the Armada</a><br /> <a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#The_Contemporary_Spanish_Navy_(20th_and_21st_Centuries)">Future of the Armada</a></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading"> Ships</th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content" style="text-align:left"> <a href="/wiki/List_of_active_Spanish_Navy_ships" title="List of active Spanish Navy ships">Current Fleet</a><br /> <a href="/wiki/List_of_future_Spanish_Navy_ships" title="List of future Spanish Navy ships">Future ships</a><br /> <a href="/wiki/List_of_retired_Spanish_Navy_ships" title="List of retired Spanish Navy ships">Historic ships</a></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading"> Personnel</th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content" style="text-align:left"> <a href="/wiki/Structure_of_the_Spanish_Navy_in_the_21st_century" class="mw-redirect" title="Structure of the Spanish Navy in the 21st century">Structure of the Armada</a><br /> <a href="/wiki/Spanish_Royal_Academy_of_Naval_Engineers" title="Spanish Royal Academy of Naval Engineers">Academy of Naval Engineers</a><br /> <a href="/wiki/Escuela_Naval_Militar_de_Oficiales" class="mw-redirect" title="Escuela Naval Militar de Oficiales">Officer naval academy</a><br /> <a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#Ranks">Officer ranks of the Armada</a></td> </tr></tbody></table> <p>Subordinate to the Spanish Chief of Naval Staff, stationed in Madrid, are four area commands: the Cantabrian Maritime Zone with its headquarters at <a href="/wiki/Ferrol,_A_Coru%C3%B1a" class="mw-redirect" title="Ferrol, A Coruña">Ferrol</a> on the Atlantic coast; the Straits Maritime Zone with its headquarters at <a href="/wiki/San_Fernando,_C%C3%A1diz" title="San Fernando, Cádiz">San Fernando</a> near Cádiz; the Mediterranean Maritime Zone with its headquarters at Cartagena; and the Canary Islands Maritime Zone with its headquarters at <a href="/wiki/Las_Palmas_de_Gran_Canaria" class="mw-redirect" title="Las Palmas de Gran Canaria">Las Palmas de Gran Canaria</a>. Operational naval units are classified by mission and assigned to either the combat forces, the protective forces, or the auxiliary forces. Combat forces are given the tasks of conducting offensive and defensive operations against potential enemies and for assuring maritime communications. Their principal vessels include a carrier group, naval aircraft, transports, landing vessels, submarines, and missile-armed <a href="/wiki/Fast_attack_craft" title="Fast attack craft">fast attack craft</a>. Protective forces have the mission of securing maritime communications over both ocean and coastal routes, securing the approaches to ports and maritime terminals. Their principal components are frigates, <a href="/wiki/Corvette" title="Corvette">corvettes</a>, and minesweepers. It also has marine units for the defense of naval installations. Auxiliary forces are responsible for transportation and provisioning at sea and has diverse tasks like coast guard operations, scientific work, and maintenance of training vessels. In addition to supply ships and tankers, the force included destroyers and a large number of patrol craft. </p><p>Until February 2013, when it was decommissioned because of budget cuts,<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the second largest vessel of the <i>Armada</i> was the aircraft carrier <i>Príncipe de Asturias</i>, which entered service in 1988 after completing sea trials. Built in Spain, it was designed with a "ski-jump" takeoff deck. Its complement was 29 <a href="/wiki/AV-8_Harrier_II" class="mw-redirect" title="AV-8 Harrier II">AV-8 Harrier II</a> vertical (or short) takeoff and landing (V/STOL) aircraft or 16 helicopters designed for anti-submarine warfare and to support marine landings. </p><p>As of 2012<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spanish_Navy&action=edit">[update]</a></sup>, the Armada has a strength of 20,800 personnel.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Infantería_de_Marina"><span id="Infanter.C3.ADa_de_Marina"></span>Infantería de Marina</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Spanish_Navy&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Infantería de Marina"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Spanish_Navy_Marines" class="mw-redirect" title="Spanish Navy Marines">Spanish Navy Marines</a></div> <p>The Infantería de Marina is the marine infantry of the Spanish Navy, and the oldest marine corps in existence in the world. It has a strength of 11,500 troops and is divided into base defense forces and landing forces. One of the three base defense battalions is stationed with each of the Navy headquarters. "Groups" (midway between battalions and regiments) are stationed in Madrid and Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. The <i><a href="/wiki/Tercio" title="Tercio">Tercio</a></i> (fleet — regiment equivalent) is available for immediate embarkation and based out of San Fernando. Its principal weapons include <a href="/wiki/Light_tank" title="Light tank">light tanks</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Armored_personnel_vehicle&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Armored personnel vehicle (page does not exist)">armored personnel vehicles</a>, self-propelled artillery, and <a href="/wiki/TOW_missile" class="mw-redirect" title="TOW missile">TOW</a> and <a href="/wiki/Dragon_missile" class="mw-redirect" title="Dragon missile">Dragon</a> <a href="/wiki/Anti-tank_missile" class="mw-redirect" title="Anti-tank missile">anti-tank missiles</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Equipment">Equipment</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Spanish_Navy&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Equipment"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Ships_and_submarines">Ships and submarines</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Spanish_Navy&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Ships and submarines"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/List_of_active_Spanish_Navy_ships" title="List of active Spanish Navy ships">List of active Spanish Navy ships</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Spanish_navy_frigate,_BAM_and_LHD.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Spanish_navy_frigate%2C_BAM_and_LHD.jpg/220px-Spanish_navy_frigate%2C_BAM_and_LHD.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Spanish_navy_frigate%2C_BAM_and_LHD.jpg/330px-Spanish_navy_frigate%2C_BAM_and_LHD.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Spanish_navy_frigate%2C_BAM_and_LHD.jpg/440px-Spanish_navy_frigate%2C_BAM_and_LHD.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2000" data-file-height="1333" /></a><figcaption>Naval parade of the Spanish Navy held in 2017. In the image, the BAM <a href="/wiki/Spanish_patrol_vessel_Tornado" title="Spanish patrol vessel Tornado"><i>Tornado</i> (P-44)</a>, the frigate <a href="/wiki/Spanish_frigate_Almirante_Juan_de_Borb%C3%B3n" title="Spanish frigate Almirante Juan de Borbón"><i>Almirante Juan de Borbón</i></a> (F-102) and in the background, the flagship amphibious assault ship <a href="/wiki/Spanish_landing_helicopter_dock_Juan_Carlos_I" title="Spanish landing helicopter dock Juan Carlos I"><i>Juan Carlos I</i></a> (L-61).</figcaption></figure> <p>As of 2018, there are approximately 138 vessels in service within the Navy, including minor auxiliary vessels. A breakdown includes an <a href="/wiki/Amphibious_assault_ship" title="Amphibious assault ship">amphibious assault ship</a> (also used as an aircraft carrier), <a href="/wiki/Amphibious_transport_dock" title="Amphibious transport dock">amphibious transport docks</a>, frigates, submarines, <a href="/wiki/Mine_countermeasure_vessel" class="mw-redirect" title="Mine countermeasure vessel">mine countermeasure vessels</a>, <a href="/wiki/Patrol_boat" title="Patrol boat">patrol vessels</a> and a number of <a href="/wiki/Auxiliary_ship" title="Auxiliary ship">auxiliary ships</a>. The total displacement of the Spanish Navy is approximately 220,000 tonnes.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Aircraft">Aircraft</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Spanish_Navy&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Aircraft"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Spanish_Navy_AV-8B_Harrier_II_070223-N-3888C-004.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/Spanish_Navy_AV-8B_Harrier_II_070223-N-3888C-004.jpg/220px-Spanish_Navy_AV-8B_Harrier_II_070223-N-3888C-004.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/Spanish_Navy_AV-8B_Harrier_II_070223-N-3888C-004.jpg/330px-Spanish_Navy_AV-8B_Harrier_II_070223-N-3888C-004.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/Spanish_Navy_AV-8B_Harrier_II_070223-N-3888C-004.jpg/440px-Spanish_Navy_AV-8B_Harrier_II_070223-N-3888C-004.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2100" data-file-height="1406" /></a><figcaption>A Spanish Navy <a href="/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_AV-8B_Harrier_II" title="McDonnell Douglas AV-8B Harrier II">AV-8B Harrier</a> operating from an aircraft carrier</figcaption></figure> <p>The Spanish Naval Air Arm constitutes the naval aviation branch of the Spanish Navy. </p> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Type</th> <th>Origin</th> <th>Class</th> <th>Role</th> <th>Introduced</th> <th>In service</th> <th>Total</th> <th>Notes </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_AV-8B_Harrier_II" title="McDonnell Douglas AV-8B Harrier II">McDonnell Douglas AV-8B Harrier II</a> </td> <td>UK </td> <td>Jet </td> <td>Multi-role </td> <td>1987 </td> <td> </td> <td>11<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td>Including 1 TAV-8B double-seat trainer </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Cessna_Citation_II" title="Cessna Citation II">Cessna Citation</a> </td> <td>USA </td> <td>Jet </td> <td>Utility </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td>4 </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/NHIndustries_NH90" title="NHIndustries NH90">NHI NH90</a> </td> <td>Europe </td> <td>Rotorcraft </td> <td>Transport </td> <td>2024 </td> <td>NH-90 MSPT </td> <td> </td> <td>7 on order </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Airbus_Helicopters_H135" class="mw-redirect" title="Airbus Helicopters H135">Airbus Helicopters H135</a> </td> <td>Europe </td> <td>Rotorcraft </td> <td>Trainer </td> <td>2023 </td> <td>H135 </td> <td>2 </td> <td>7 on order<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/UH-1N_Twin_Huey" class="mw-redirect" title="UH-1N Twin Huey">Agusta-Bell AB 212+</a> </td> <td>Italy </td> <td>Rotorcraft </td> <td>Utility </td> <td>1989 </td> <td> </td> <td>7 </td> <td>To retire; scheduled for July 31, 2024 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Sikorsky_SH-60_Seahawk" title="Sikorsky SH-60 Seahawk">Sikorsky SH-60 Seahawk</a> </td> <td>USA </td> <td>Rotorcraft </td> <td>ASW </td> <td>1988 </td> <td>SH-60B </td> <td>12 </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Sikorsky_SH-60_Seahawk" title="Sikorsky SH-60 Seahawk">Sikorsky SH-60 Seahawk</a> </td> <td>USA </td> <td>Rotorcraft </td> <td>Transport </td> <td>2020 </td> <td>SH-60F </td> <td>8 </td> <td>Configure for ASW, use for transport only<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Sikorsky_SH-60_Seahawk" title="Sikorsky SH-60 Seahawk">Sikorsky SH-60 Seahawk</a> </td> <td>USA </td> <td>Rotorcraft </td> <td>ASW/ASuW/Transport </td> <td>2025 </td> <td>MH-60R </td> <td> </td> <td>8 on order, to replace SH-60B </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Ranks_and_insignia">Ranks and insignia</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Spanish_Navy&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Ranks and insignia"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Military_ranks_of_Spain" title="Military ranks of Spain">Military ranks of Spain</a></div> <p>The officer ranks of the Spanish Navy are as follows below, (for a comparison with other NATO ranks, see <a href="/wiki/Ranks_and_Insignia_of_NATO" class="mw-redirect" title="Ranks and Insignia of NATO">Ranks and Insignia of NATO</a>). Midshipmen are further divided into 1st and 2nd Classes and Officer Cadets 3rd and 4th Classes respectively. </p> <dl><dt>Officers</dt></dl> <table style="border:1px solid #8888aa; background:#fff; padding:5px; font-size:95%; margin:0 12px 12px 0;"> <tbody><tr style="background-color:#CCCCCC; width: 100%"> <th>NATO code</th> <th colspan="2">OF-10</th> <th colspan="2">OF-9</th> <th colspan="2">OF-8</th> <th colspan="2">OF-7</th> <th colspan="2">OF-6</th> <th colspan="2">OF-5</th> <th colspan="2">OF-4</th> <th colspan="2">OF-3</th> <th colspan="2">OF-2</th> <th colspan="6">OF-1 </th></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td rowspan="2"><b><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Spain.svg/23px-Flag_of_Spain.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Spain.svg/35px-Flag_of_Spain.svg.png 1.5x, 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title="Spanish-language text"><i lang="es"><a href="/wiki/First_sergeant" title="First sergeant">Sargento primero</a></i></span> </td> <td colspan="6"><span title="Spanish-language text"><i lang="es"><a href="/wiki/Sergeant" title="Sergeant">Sargento</a></i></span> </td> <td colspan="6"><span title="Spanish-language text"><i lang="es"><a href="/wiki/Corporal_major" title="Corporal major">Cabo mayor</a></i></span> </td> <td colspan="4"><span title="Spanish-language text"><i lang="es"><a href="/wiki/First_corporal" class="mw-redirect" title="First corporal">Cabo primero</a></i></span> </td> <td colspan="2"><span title="Spanish-language text"><i lang="es"><a href="/wiki/Corporal#Spain" title="Corporal">Cabo</a></i></span> </td> <td colspan="6"><span title="Spanish-language text"><i lang="es"><a href="/wiki/Sailor_first_class" title="Sailor first class">Marinero de primera</a></i></span> </td> <td colspan="2"><span title="Spanish-language text"><i lang="es"><a href="/wiki/Seaman_(rank)" title="Seaman (rank)">Marinero</a></i></span> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <p>The article <a href="/wiki/Spanish_Marine_Infantry" title="Spanish Marine Infantry">Spanish Marine Infantry</a> includes the rank insignia descriptions for this part of the Navy. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Organization">Organization</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Spanish_Navy&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Organization"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Monolitomarina.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/Monolitomarina.jpg/220px-Monolitomarina.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/Monolitomarina.jpg/330px-Monolitomarina.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/Monolitomarina.jpg/440px-Monolitomarina.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2304" data-file-height="3072" /></a><figcaption>Monolit of Spanish Navy in <a href="/wiki/La_Coru%C3%B1a" class="mw-redirect" title="La Coruña">La Coruña</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p>The Spanish Navy shares the organization model of its two sister services – the <a href="/wiki/Spanish_Army" title="Spanish Army">Spanish Army</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Spanish_Air_and_Space_Force" title="Spanish Air and Space Force">Spanish Air and Space Force</a>. Each of them consists of a Headquarters (<i>Cuartel general</i>), a Force (<i>Fuerza</i>, composed of the operational units) and a Force Support (<i>Apoyo a la fuerza</i>, composed of administration, logistical and training units). For historical traditions the Force of the Spanish Navy is called Fleet (<i>Flota</i>) and the two terms are used interchangeably. At the head of the Navy is an <i>Almirante general</i> (a four-star rank reserved for the Chief of the Spanish Navy and the Chief of the Spanish Armed Forces, when the latter position is held by a naval officer), denominated AJEMA or Admiral Chief of the General Staff of the Navy (<i>Almirante Jefe de Estado Mayor de la Armada</i>). Counterintuitive to this official designation he holds authority over all three components of the service and the officer, who actually functions as Chief of Staff is a three-star <i>Almirante</i>, designated Admiral Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Navy (<i>Almirante Segundo Jefe del Estado Mayor de la Armada</i> or <i>2º AJEMA</i>) </p><p><b>Admiral Chief of the General Staff of the Navy (<i>AJEMA</i>)</b> <span role="img" style="white-space:nowrap" title="4/4 stars"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="4/4 stars"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/11px-Star_full.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/17px-Star_full.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/22px-Star_full.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="108" data-file-height="110" /></span></span><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" 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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/11px-Star_full.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/17px-Star_full.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/22px-Star_full.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="108" data-file-height="110" /></span></span></span> </p> <ul><li><b>Navy Headquarters</b> – Admiral Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Navy (<i>2º AJEMA</i>) <span role="img" style="white-space:nowrap" title="3/3 stars"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="3/3 stars"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/11px-Star_full.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/17px-Star_full.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/22px-Star_full.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="108" data-file-height="110" /></span></span><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/11px-Star_full.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/17px-Star_full.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/22px-Star_full.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="108" data-file-height="110" /></span></span><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/11px-Star_full.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/17px-Star_full.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/22px-Star_full.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="108" data-file-height="110" /></span></span></span> (in <a href="/wiki/Madrid" title="Madrid">Madrid</a>) <ul><li>General Staff of the Navy</li> <li>Office of the Admiral Chief of the General Staff of the Navy</li> <li>Department of General Services, Technical Assistance and Signals and Telecommunication Systems</li> <li>Naval Cultural and Historical Office</li> <li>Legal Service of the Navy Headquarters</li> <li>Central Internal Audit Service of the Navy</li> <li>Central Maritime (Naval) Tribunal</li></ul></li> <li><b>Fleet</b> – Admiral of the Fleet (<i>ALFLOT</i>) <span role="img" style="white-space:nowrap" title="3/3 stars"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="3/3 stars"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/11px-Star_full.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/17px-Star_full.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/22px-Star_full.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="108" data-file-height="110" /></span></span><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/11px-Star_full.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/17px-Star_full.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/22px-Star_full.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="108" data-file-height="110" /></span></span><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/11px-Star_full.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/17px-Star_full.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/22px-Star_full.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="108" data-file-height="110" /></span></span></span> <ul><li>Fleet Command (Mando de la Flota, in the "Almirante Rodríguez Martín-Granizo" Complex at <a href="/wiki/Rota,_C%C3%A1diz" class="mw-redirect" title="Rota, Cádiz">Rota Naval Base</a>)</li> <li><b>Naval Action Force</b> – Admiral of Naval Action (<i>ALNAV</i>) <span role="img" style="white-space:nowrap" title="2/2 stars"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="2/2 stars"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/11px-Star_full.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/17px-Star_full.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/22px-Star_full.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="108" data-file-height="110" /></span></span><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/11px-Star_full.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/17px-Star_full.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/22px-Star_full.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="108" data-file-height="110" /></span></span></span> (at the La Graña Naval Station, <a href="/wiki/Ferrol,_Spain" title="Ferrol, Spain">Ferrol</a>) <ul><li>Naval Action Group 1 <span role="img" style="white-space:nowrap" title="1/1 star"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="1/1 star"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/11px-Star_full.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/17px-Star_full.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/22px-Star_full.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="108" data-file-height="110" /></span></span></span> (at the La Graña Naval Station, <a href="/wiki/Ferrol,_Spain" title="Ferrol, Spain">Ferrol</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <ul><li>31st Escort Squadron (at <a href="/wiki/Ferrol,_Spain" title="Ferrol, Spain">Ferrol</a>) <ul><li>5 AEGIS Frigates (<a href="/wiki/%C3%81lvaro_de_Baz%C3%A1n-class_frigate" title="Álvaro de Bazán-class frigate"><i>Álvaro de Bazán</i> class</a>). 6,250 tons.</li></ul></li> <li>41st Escort Squadron (at Rota Naval Base) <ul><li>6 Frigates (<a href="/wiki/Santa_Mar%C3%ADa-class_frigate" title="Santa María-class frigate"><i>Santa María</i> class</a>). 4,017 tons</li></ul></li> <li>1 Replenishment ship <a href="/wiki/Spanish_oiler_Pati%C3%B1o" title="Spanish oiler Patiño"><i>Patiño</i></a> (at Ferrol). 17,045 tons</li> <li>1 Replenishment ship <a href="/wiki/Spanish_oiler_Cantabria" title="Spanish oiler Cantabria"><i>Cantabria</i></a> (at Ferrol). 19,500 tons</li></ul></li> <li>Naval Action Group 2 <span role="img" style="white-space:nowrap" title="1/1 star"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="1/1 star"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/11px-Star_full.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/17px-Star_full.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/22px-Star_full.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="108" data-file-height="110" /></span></span></span> (at Rota Naval Base) <ul><li>1 <a href="/wiki/Landing_helicopter_dock" title="Landing helicopter dock">LHD</a> <a href="/wiki/Spanish_landing_helicopter_dock_Juan_Carlos_I" title="Spanish landing helicopter dock Juan Carlos I"><i>Juan Carlos I</i> (L61)</a>. 27,079 Tons.</li> <li>2 <a href="/wiki/Landing_Platform_Dock" class="mw-redirect" title="Landing Platform Dock">LPD</a> <a href="/wiki/Galicia-class_landing_platform_dock" title="Galicia-class landing platform dock"><i>Galicia</i>-class</a> landing platform docks. 13,818 tons</li> <li>Beachmaster Group, including <a href="/wiki/LCM-1E" title="LCM-1E">LCM-1E</a> landing craft</li></ul></li></ul></li> <li><b>Naval Maritime Force</b> – Admiral of Maritime Action (<i>ALMART</i>) <span role="img" style="white-space:nowrap" title="2/2 stars"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="2/2 stars"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/11px-Star_full.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/17px-Star_full.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/22px-Star_full.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="108" data-file-height="110" /></span></span><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/11px-Star_full.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/17px-Star_full.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/22px-Star_full.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="108" data-file-height="110" /></span></span></span>, at Cartagena Naval Arsenal <ul><li>Canary Islands Naval Command – Admiral of the Canary Islands (<i>ALCANAR</i>) <span role="img" style="white-space:nowrap" title="1/1 star"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="1/1 star"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/11px-Star_full.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/17px-Star_full.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/22px-Star_full.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="108" data-file-height="110" /></span></span></span>, at Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Naval Arsenal) <ul><li>Canary Patrol Craft Unit</li> <li>Canary Diving Unit</li> <li>support units</li> <li>Naval Commandancy of Santa Cruz de Tenerife</li> <li>Naval Commandancy of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria</li></ul></li> <li>Cádiz Naval Action Command – Naval Commandant of Cádiz, at Puntales Naval Station, Cádiz <ul><li>Alborán Naval Detachment (of patrol craft and tow boats)</li> <li>Cádiz Diving Unit</li> <li>Naval Commandancy of Cádiz</li></ul></li> <li>Ferrol Naval Action Command – Naval Commandant of Ferrol, at Ferrol Naval Base <ul><li>Ferrol Naval Detachment</li> <li>Ferrol Diving Unit</li> <li>Naval Commandancy of Ferrol</li></ul></li> <li>Cartagena Naval Action Command – Naval Commandant of Cartagena, at Cartagena Naval Arsenal <ul><li>Cartagena Naval Detachment</li> <li>Naval Commandancy of Cartagena</li></ul></li> <li>Balearic Islands Naval Sector – Naval Commandant of the Balearic Islands, at Porto Pi Naval Station, Palma de Mallorca <ul><li>Naval Commandancy of Palma</li> <li>Naval Commandancy of Mahón</li> <li>Naval Commandancy of Ibiza</li></ul></li> <li>Mine Counter-Measures Force – Commandant of the MCM Force, at the Cartagena Naval Arsenal <ul><li>MCM command ship Diana</li> <li>1st MCM Squadron – 6 Minehunters M-30 (<a href="/w/index.php?title=Segura-class_minehunter&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Segura-class minehunter (page does not exist)"><i>Segura</i> class</a>). 585 tons</li> <li>MCM Diving Unit</li> <li>Support Force</li></ul></li> <li>Naval Diving Center, at Algameca Naval Station, Cartagena</li> <li>Sector Naval de Baleares</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spanish_Marine_Infantry" title="Spanish Marine Infantry">Marine Infantry Force</a> – Commandant General of Naval Infantry (<i>COMGEIM</i>) <span role="img" style="white-space:nowrap" title="2/2 stars"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="2/2 stars"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/11px-Star_full.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/17px-Star_full.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/22px-Star_full.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="108" data-file-height="110" /></span></span><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/11px-Star_full.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/17px-Star_full.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/22px-Star_full.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="108" data-file-height="110" /></span></span></span>, at <a href="/wiki/San_Fernando,_C%C3%A1diz" title="San Fernando, Cádiz">San Fernando, Cádiz</a> <ul><li>Naval Expeditionary Force (<i>Tercio de la Armada</i> (<i>TEAR</i>)) <ul><li>Naval Infantry Brigade (<i>BIM</i>) <span role="img" style="white-space:nowrap" title="1/1 star"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="1/1 star"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/11px-Star_full.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/17px-Star_full.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/22px-Star_full.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="108" data-file-height="110" /></span></span></span>, at <a href="/wiki/San_Fernando,_C%C3%A1diz" title="San Fernando, Cádiz">San Fernando, Cádiz</a></li></ul></li> <li>Protection Force (<i>Fuerza de Protección</i>) <ul><li>Marine Infantry Madrid Detachment (<i>Agrupación de Infantería de Marina de Madrid</i> (<i>AGRUMAD</i>)) – Naval HQ security unit</li> <li>Northern Battalion (<i>Tercio del Norte</i> (<i>TERNOR</i>)) – Nuestra Señora de los Dolores Barracks, Ferrol</li> <li>Southern Battalion (<i>Tercio del Sur</i> (<i>TERSUR</i>)) – San Fernando and Rota Naval Base</li> <li>Eastern Battalion (<i>Tercio de Levante</i> (<i>TERLEV</i>)) – Cartagena Naval Arsenal</li> <li>Security Unit of the Canary Islands Naval Command (<i>Unidad de Seguridad del Mando Naval de Canarias</i> (<i>USCAN</i>)) – Las Palmas</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fuerza_de_Guerra_Naval_Especial" title="Fuerza de Guerra Naval Especial">Naval Special Warfare Force(FGNE)</a>, at Algameca Naval Station, Cartagena</li></ul></li> <li><b>Submarine Flotilla</b> (FLOSUB), at Cartagena Naval Arsenal <ul><li>Flotilla Command</li> <li>3 Submarines S-70 <i>Galerna</i> (<a href="/wiki/Agosta-class_submarine" title="Agosta-class submarine"><i>Agosta</i> class</a>). 1,740 tons</li> <li>4 AIP submarines (<a href="/wiki/S-80-class_submarine" class="mw-redirect" title="S-80-class submarine"><i>S-80</i> class</a>). (Under construction) 3,426 tons</li> <li>Submarine Base</li> <li>Training Section</li> <li>Tactical Submarine Programs Center</li></ul></li> <li><b>Aircraft Flotilla</b> (FLOAN), at <a href="/wiki/Rota,_C%C3%A1diz" class="mw-redirect" title="Rota, Cádiz">Rota Naval Base</a> <ul><li>Flotilla Command</li> <li>3rd Flying Squadron – <a href="/wiki/Bell_212" title="Bell 212">Agusta-Bell 212</a></li> <li>4th Flying Squadron – <a href="/wiki/Cessna_Citation_family" title="Cessna Citation family">Cessna Citation</a> liaison aircraft</li> <li>5th Flying Squadron – <a href="/wiki/Sikorsky_SH-3_Sea_King" title="Sikorsky SH-3 Sea King">Sikorsky SH-3D Sea King</a></li> <li>6th Flying Squadron – <a href="/wiki/Hughes_500MD" class="mw-redirect" title="Hughes 500MD">Hughes 500MD</a></li> <li>9th Flying Squadron – <a href="/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_AV-8B_Harrier_II" title="McDonnell Douglas AV-8B Harrier II">McDonnell Douglas AV/TAV-8B+ Harrier II</a></li> <li>10th Flying Squadron – <a href="/wiki/Sikorsky_SH-60_Seahawk" title="Sikorsky SH-60 Seahawk">Sikorsky SH-60B/F Seahawk</a></li> <li>11th Flying Squadron – <a href="/wiki/Boeing_Insitu_ScanEagle" class="mw-redirect" title="Boeing Insitu ScanEagle">Boeing Insitu ScanEagle</a></li> <li>Carrier Air Group – aircraft detached from the flying squadrons</li> <li>Simulation Center</li> <li>Aircraft Maintenance Center</li> <li>General Support Units</li></ul></li></ul></li> <li>Force Support <ul><li>Department of Personnel – Admiral in Charge of Personnel (<i>AJEPER</i>) <span role="img" style="white-space:nowrap" title="3/3 stars"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="3/3 stars"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/11px-Star_full.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/17px-Star_full.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/22px-Star_full.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="108" data-file-height="110" /></span></span><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/11px-Star_full.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/17px-Star_full.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/22px-Star_full.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="108" data-file-height="110" /></span></span><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/11px-Star_full.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/17px-Star_full.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/22px-Star_full.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="108" data-file-height="110" /></span></span></span>, in Cádiz</li> <li>Logistic Support Department – Admiral in Charge of Logistic Support (<i>AJAL</i>) <span role="img" style="white-space:nowrap" title="3/3 stars"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="3/3 stars"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/11px-Star_full.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/17px-Star_full.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/22px-Star_full.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="108" data-file-height="110" /></span></span><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/11px-Star_full.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/17px-Star_full.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/22px-Star_full.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="108" data-file-height="110" /></span></span><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/11px-Star_full.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/17px-Star_full.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/22px-Star_full.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="108" data-file-height="110" /></span></span></span>, in Cádiz</li> <li>Directorate of Economic Affairs – Director of Economic Affairs, Quartermaster Major General (<i>DEA</i>) <span role="img" style="white-space:nowrap" title="2/2 stars"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="2/2 stars"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/11px-Star_full.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/17px-Star_full.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/22px-Star_full.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="108" data-file-height="110" /></span></span><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/11px-Star_full.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/17px-Star_full.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/22px-Star_full.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="108" data-file-height="110" /></span></span></span>, in Madrid</li></ul></li> <li><b>TOTAL Tons Main Vessels: 233,596 Tons</b></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading 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style="width:492px;max-width:492px"><div class="trow"><div class="theader">Some preserved Spanish submarines</div></div><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:162px;max-width:162px"><div class="thumbimage" style="height:120px;overflow:hidden"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Onderzeeboot_Peral_Cartagena.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Onderzeeboot_Peral_Cartagena.jpg/160px-Onderzeeboot_Peral_Cartagena.jpg" decoding="async" width="160" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Onderzeeboot_Peral_Cartagena.jpg/240px-Onderzeeboot_Peral_Cartagena.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Onderzeeboot_Peral_Cartagena.jpg/320px-Onderzeeboot_Peral_Cartagena.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4032" data-file-height="3024" /></a></span></div></div><div class="tsingle" style="width:162px;max-width:162px"><div class="thumbimage" style="height:120px;overflow:hidden"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Submarine_(SA_42)-Foca.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Submarine_%28SA_42%29-Foca.jpg/160px-Submarine_%28SA_42%29-Foca.jpg" decoding="async" width="160" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Submarine_%28SA_42%29-Foca.jpg/240px-Submarine_%28SA_42%29-Foca.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Submarine_%28SA_42%29-Foca.jpg/320px-Submarine_%28SA_42%29-Foca.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2048" data-file-height="1536" /></a></span></div></div><div class="tsingle" style="width:162px;max-width:162px"><div class="thumbimage" style="height:120px;overflow:hidden"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Submar%C3%AD_Barcelona_P1180788.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Submar%C3%AD_Barcelona_P1180788.JPG/160px-Submar%C3%AD_Barcelona_P1180788.JPG" decoding="async" width="160" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Submar%C3%AD_Barcelona_P1180788.JPG/240px-Submar%C3%AD_Barcelona_P1180788.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Submar%C3%AD_Barcelona_P1180788.JPG/320px-Submar%C3%AD_Barcelona_P1180788.JPG 2x" data-file-width="3264" data-file-height="2448" /></a></span></div></div></div><div class="trow" style="display:flex"><div class="thumbcaption">From left to right: <a href="/wiki/Spanish_submarine_Peral" title="Spanish submarine Peral"><i>Peral</i></a> in <a href="/wiki/Cartagena,_Spain" title="Cartagena, Spain">Cartagena</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=SA-41&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="SA-41 (page does not exist)">SA-41</a> of the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Spanish_Foca-class_submarine&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Spanish Foca-class submarine (page does not exist)">Foca class</a> in <a href="/wiki/Mah%C3%B3n" title="Mahón">Mahón</a> and <a href="/w/index.php?title=SA-51&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="SA-51 (page does not exist)">SA-51</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Spanish_Shark-class_submarine" title="Spanish Shark-class submarine">Tiburón-class</a> in <a href="/wiki/Barcelona" title="Barcelona">Barcelona</a>.</div></div></div></div> <p>Most of the few retired Spanish Navy ships preserved as <a href="/wiki/Museum_ship" title="Museum ship">museum ships</a> are submarines: </p> <ul><li>Submarine <a href="/wiki/Spanish_submarine_Peral" title="Spanish submarine Peral"><i>Peral</i></a> of 1888 is preserved in <a href="/wiki/Cartagena,_Spain" title="Cartagena, Spain">Cartagena</a> (<a href="/wiki/Murcia" title="Murcia">Murcia</a>).</li> <li>Two units of the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Spanish_Seal-class_submarine&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Spanish Seal-class submarine (page does not exist)">Foca class</a>: <a href="/w/index.php?title=SA-41&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="SA-41 (page does not exist)">SA-41</a> in <a href="/wiki/Mah%C3%B3n" title="Mahón">Mahón</a> (<a href="/wiki/Balearic_Islands" title="Balearic Islands">Balearic Islands</a>) and <a href="/w/index.php?title=SA-42&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="SA-42 (page does not exist)">SA-42</a> in Cartagena (Murcia).</li> <li>Two units of the <a href="/wiki/Spanish_Shark-class_submarine" title="Spanish Shark-class submarine">Tiburón class</a>: the <a href="/w/index.php?title=SA-51&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="SA-51 (page does not exist)">SA-51</a> in <a href="/wiki/Barcelona" title="Barcelona">Barcelona</a> (<a href="/wiki/Catalonia" title="Catalonia">Catalonia</a>) and the <a href="/w/index.php?title=SA-52&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="SA-52 (page does not exist)">SA-52</a> in Cartagena (Murcia).</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spanish_submarine_Delf%C3%ADn_(S61)" title="Spanish submarine Delfín (S61)"><i>Delfín</i> (S-61)</a>, of the <a href="/wiki/Daphn%C3%A9-class_submarine" title="Daphné-class submarine">Daphné class</a> (S-60) is moored in <a href="/wiki/Torrevieja" title="Torrevieja">Torrevieja</a> (<a href="/wiki/Province_of_Alicante" title="Province of Alicante">Province of Alicante</a>, <a href="/wiki/Valencian_Community" title="Valencian Community">Valencian Community</a>). Unlike the other submarines, it is not anchored on land but moored in the port, thus becoming the first "floating museum" of its kind in Spain.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Customs_Surveillance_Service" title="Customs Surveillance Service">Customs Surveillance Service</a> patrol car <i>Albatros III</i> is also preserved in Torrevieja.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Glenlee_(ship)" title="Glenlee (ship)">Galatea</a></i>, a <a href="/wiki/Barque" title="Barque">barque</a> that was a <a href="/wiki/Training_ship" title="Training ship">training ship</a> for the Spanish Navy between 1922 and 1982, is preserved in <a href="/wiki/Glasgow" title="Glasgow">Glasgow</a> (<a href="/wiki/Scotland" title="Scotland">Scotland</a>, <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a>).</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Spanish_Navy&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Salve_Marinera" title="Salve Marinera">Salve Marinera</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coats_of_arms,_badges_and_emblems_of_Spanish_Armed_Forces#Navy" class="mw-redirect" title="Coats of arms, badges and emblems of Spanish Armed Forces">Coats of arms, badges and emblems of Spanish Armed Forces#Navy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_retired_Spanish_Navy_ships" title="List of retired Spanish Navy ships">List of retired Spanish Navy ships</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_future_Spanish_Navy_ships" title="List of future Spanish Navy ships">List of future Spanish Navy ships</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Spanish_Navy&action=edit&section=19" 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data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Royal_Netherlands_Navy" title="Royal Netherlands Navy">Royal Netherlands Navy</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Norway" title="Norway"><img alt="Norway" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Norway.svg/21px-Flag_of_Norway.svg.png" decoding="async" width="21" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Norway.svg/32px-Flag_of_Norway.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Norway.svg/41px-Flag_of_Norway.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="372" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Royal_Norwegian_Navy" title="Royal Norwegian Navy">Royal Norwegian Navy</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Poland" 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