Baleares
Tier VI · Cruiser · Spain
Rating A+ (Strong within its tier and class · overall score 78) · Gunnery cruiser
Gunnery cruiser, suited to stealth torps with equipment. A glass cannon: huge firepower, but low HP means it melts under focus fire. Its AP main battery DPM of 46,368 is 23% above the same-tier cruiser average. A full torpedo spread can deal up to 13,800 (all launchers combined). Torpedo DPM is 20% higher than average. Key skills: Sonar I ×2 (3.75 km, 25 s); Air Defense Alert I ×2.
Key stats
- HP: 20,470
- Top speed: 32.11 kn
- Surface detectability: 7.92 km
- Main battery: 203 mm 4X2 · reload 10 s · range 10.86 km
In 1926, Spain ordered two modern "Washington Treaty" cruisers. Vickers-Armstrong created a project based on County-class cruisers with reinforced AA defenses and armor protection. The cruisers were named Canarias and Baleares after the major Spanish archipelagos of the same name. The construction was delayed, but the Nationalists who seized the shipyards forced the ships' construction to speed up until completion. Baleares participated in the offensive against Málaga and the hunt for transport ships; she carried out raids on coastal fortifications and bombarded cities. The cruiser was sunk by Republican destroyers in the Battle of Cape Palos.