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Alfonso XIII was a Spanish dreadnought battleship built in the early 1910s, part of a naval construction program to rebuild the fleet after the losses of the Spanish–American War. The vessel was armed with a main battery of eight 305 mm (12 in) guns and was intended to support the French Navy in the event of a major European war. Alfonso XIII's early career was largely unremarkable. In the 1920s, she took part in the Rif War in the Spanish protectorate in Morocco. In 1931, Alfonso XIII was renamed España. At the start of the Spanish Civil War in 1936, the crew murdered the ship's officers and attempted to resist the Nationalist rebels in Ferrol, but then surrendered. España became the core of the Nationalist fleet, and she was used to enforce a blockade of the north coast of Spain. On 30 April 1937, she accidentally struck a mine laid by a Nationalist minelayer. All of her crew but four were evacuated before España capsized and sank. (Full article...)
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Hi Parsecboy and congratulations again. A draft blurb for this article is above. Thoughts, comments and edits from you or from anyone else interested are welcome. Gog the Mild (talk) 19:59, 13 September 2020 (UTC)
- Looks good to me, thanks Gog! Parsecboy (talk) 20:31, 13 September 2020 (UTC)