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Spanish
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ships of the
Spanish Navy
The Spanish Navy or officially, the Armada, is the maritime branch of the Spanish Armed Forces 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, ...
have borne the name ''Castilla'', after the region of ''
Castilla'':
* ''Castilla'' (1628), patache in the Royal Navy of
Flanders
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* ''Castilla'' (1728), corvette, 12 guns
* ''Castilla'' (1730), ship of the line, 62 guns, launched in 1729 in Guarnizo, commissioned on 11 January 1730, scrapped in 1736 in Havana
* ''Castilla'' (1738), ship of the line, 60 guns, launched in 1737 in Havana, sunk in Veracruz by a storm in 1751
* ''Castilla'' (1751), ship of the line, 64 guns, constructed in Guarnizo, sunk on 30 September 1769 by a storm near Veracruz
* ''Castilla'' (1780), ship of the line, 58 guns, constructed in Ferrol, prison ship for French in 1808, burned by French in 1810 in Cádiz
* ''Reino de Castilla'', first steam ship in the Spanish Navy, built at Ditchburn & Mare (London) in 1846
* ''
Castilla'' (1842), ex Moctezuma, constructed at Green & Wigram (London) in 1842, first steamer to cross the Atlantic West–East in 1848
* , ''Aragon''-class unprotected cruiser of the Spanish Navy that fought in the
Battle of Manila Bay
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on 1 May 1898 during the
Spanish–American War
, partof = the Philippine Revolution, the decolonization of the Americas, and the Cuban War of Independence
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* ''Castilla'' (TA-21), ex
* ''Castilla'' (L-21), ex
* , ''Galicia''-class LPD
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Spanish Navy ship names