Numancia was a Spanish Navy armored frigate in commission from 1864 to 1912. Her long and active career included stints with the Spanish Royal Navy, the navy of the First Spanish Republic, and several months of operations in support of the Canton of Cartagena. She saw combat in the Chincha Islands War in 1865–1866, the Cantonal Rebellion in 1873–1874, the First Melillan campaign in 1893–1894, and the Second Melillan campaign in 1909. Between 1864 and 1867 she made the first circumnavigation of the Earth by an ironclad warship, and in 1877 she became one of the first two Spanish Navy ships to be electrified. Converted into a coastal defense ship between 1896 and 1898, she was decommissioned in 1912 and was wrecked in 1916 on her way to the shipbreakers for scrapping.
1877-04-08, La Ilustración Española y Americana, Páginas 232 y 233 (cropped) Cádiz, Aspecto del fondeadero de puntales y situación de las escuadras española, británica y de la empresa A. Lopez y C.ª en el momento de dirigirse
Sesimbra Antiga - Fragata Numancia
Sesimbra Antiga - Fragata Numancia 2
Bombardeo de los fuertes de El Callao Museo Naval--Rafael Monleon
Numancia Museo-Naval--Muñoz Degrain
Civil War in Spain - Alicante, bombarded by the Intransigentes - ILN 1873
Bombardeo de los fuertes de El Callao Museo Naval--Rafael Monleon (2)
1877-04-08, La Ilustración Española y Americana, Páginas 232 y 233 (cropped) Cádiz, Aspecto del fondeadero de puntales y situación de las escuadras española, británica y de la empresa A. Lopez y C.ª en el momento de dirigirse
Naval battle off Cartagena 1873-10-11
The Naval Engagement off Cartagena - The Graphic 1873