page_title: Spanish cruiser Vizcaya
section_title: Technical characteristics
hierarchical_section_title: Spanish cruiser Vizcaya / Technical characteristics
caption_attribution_description: English: Spanish Navy armored cruisers Cristóbal Colón (left) and Vizcaya at São Vicente sometime between 19 April 1898 and 29 April 1898.
context_page_description: Vizcaya was an Infanta Maria Teresa-class armored cruiser of the Spanish Navy that fought at the Battle of Santiago de Cuba during the Spanish–American War.
context_section_description: Vizcaya was built at Bilbao, Spain. She was laid down in 1889, launched on 8 July 1891, and completed in 1893. She had two funnels and was fast and well armed. Her main armament was mounted on the center line in single barbettes fore and aft.  Her armor was poor: her 11-inch (279 mm) guns had only lightly armored hoods, her 5.5-inch (140 mm) guns were mounted in the open on the upper deck, her armor belt was thin and protected only two-thirds of her length, and she had a high, unprotected freeboard that took much damage during the Battle of Santiago de Cuba. Like other nineteenth-century warships, she was heavily furnished and decorated with wood, which the Spanish failed to remove prior to combat and which would feed fires during the battle.
caption: Vizcaya (right) and armored cruiser Cristóbal Colón at São Vicente, sometime between 19 April 1898 and 29 April 1898.
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