Spanish cruiser Reina Regente (1887)

She was laid down on 20 June 1886 and launched on 24 February 1887 at the J&G Thomson shipyard in Govan, United Kingdom.

She had 2 triple expansion engines driving a single screw propeller and 4 cylindrical boilers.

On 10 March 1895, Reina Regente departed Tangier in Morocco for the port of Cádiz, Spain, with a crew of 420 on board under the command of Captain Francisco Sanz de Andino.

Sanz de Andino ordered the unscheduled voyage because he wanted to witness the launching of the modern armored cruiser Carlos V in Cádiz the following day.

As Reina Regente passed through the Strait of Gibraltar into the Gulf of Cádiz a severe storm struck the area and she went down with all hands lost.

Crucero Reina Regente (1888)
Reina Regente in 1889
The sinking of Reina Regente during a storm on 10 March 1895, in an oil painting by Manuel Ussel de Guimbarda . In the work the naval ship appears as a central figure, being rammed by the waves, with the coat of arms of Cartagena covered by a mourning veil in the upper left margin as a sign of the pain of the city due to a shipwreck in which a large number of the 420 deceased were neighbors of.