The Spanish Navy - Armada Española

[Sea Toby]

A few weeks ago it was difficult to find any good images of her on the world wide web. Search her now, and loads of links pop up. There is even a fs2004 computer game image available now. Who is going to christened her? Will she be Queen Sophia?

 

[Blas de Lezo]

Yes Sea Toby, Queen Sofia will do the honours, great day for the Spanish Navy, I can´t wait to see her on the water, I hope the excelent spotters from
www.fotosdebarcos.com will post some videos on the 10th.

 

[Blas de Lezo]

She is ready, 48 hours to go!

 

[Blas de Lezo]

Different angles courtesy of Cardimp @ http://www.boards2go.com/boards/board.cgi?action=read&id=1204882555&user=morato)

 

[Blas de Lezo]

another one

 

[Blas de Lezo]

almost ready

 

[Blas de Lezo]

Starboard view, can not upload it, try the link

http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/1743/panolhdlb1.jpg

 

[Blas de Lezo]

Picture published by www.revistanaval.com

 

[kato]

You can attach multiple pictures to one post btw.

 

[Ozzy Blizzard]

She looks great, cant wait to see her sister's in RAN colours!

 

[Blas de Lezo]

on the water!!

 

[AegisFC]

It is a very good looking ship, I'd love to see more pics of her from different angles.

 

[swerve]

on the water!!

Looks as if she had a big crowd for the launch. A pity the weather wasn't better.

Nice to see her afloat.

 

[Blas de Lezo]

And a little video!!!, what a day

http://www.youtube.com/user/pedrosap3

 

[Blas de Lezo]

one from the distance
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHmCEQrLPAU"]YouTube - imagym - Botadura del BPE[/ame]

 

[swerve]

Looks like the edge of the storm that hit us today brushed Galicia. A blustery March day. Well, she'll see many more of them. Good thing the storm didn't hit full-on, or the launch might have had to be postponed.

Nice to see a traditional launch, backwards into the water. Is she the biggest ship the Armada has had? The old battleships I've read of were smaller, more like the size of Principe de Asturias.

 

[Blas de Lezo]

Yes swerve, is the biggest ship the Armada ever had, the three battleships, España,AlfonsoXIII and Jaime I, also built in Ferrol around 1909 had a desplacement of 16450 tonnes, as you very well said about the size of the PDA.

 

[Tasman]

Thanks for the pics and the video. She is an impressive ship. I particularly like the look of the ski jump and it will be interesting to see how well she is able to operate the AV-8B and eventually the F-35B.

Tas

 

[Blas de Lezo]

I hope not to bore you with all of this but this is a short and interesting video of the construction process with some also interesting shots of the hangars , docks and flight deck. Is in spanish but the images are worth it.

http://www.antena3noticias.com/Port...os&pag=1&idGaleriaVideos=250661&vervideo=true

 

[Blas de Lezo]

Excelent set of 41 pictures of LHD Juan Carlos I @

http://www.revistanaval.com/