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HRMS Rotterdam

Ship List
#	Name	Port	Laid Down	Launch	Comm	Decomm	Notes
L 800	Rotterdam				1998
#	Johan de Witt				2006

Galicia (BAA - buque de asalto anfibio)

Number	Name	Builder	Homeport	Launch	Comm
L51	Galicia	Bazan, El Ferrol shipyard	Rota	Jun 1997	Apr 1998
L52	Castilla	Bazan, El Ferrol shipyard	Rota	Jun 1999	Jun 2000

This was the seventh ship of the history of the Spanish Armada to hold the name of the ancient Kingdom of Galicia. The previous were:

1. 70-Gun ship built in La Graña, launched on 28 July 1729 and delivered to the Navy on April 26, 1730. Captured by the English (5 Apr 1741) in the attack on Cartagena de Indias, was sunk by 29 April 1741.
2. Ship of 74 guns and 1,651 tn. built in Havana in 1750. It disbanded in Cádiz by lack of careening in 1797.
3. Cañonero-torpedero "Galicia" built in La Graña (1891). It was 18 knots and moving 571 tn.
4. Gunship tug "Galicia". He participated in the sinking of the submarine B-6 to Cabo Peñas in 1936.
5. Cruiser "Galicia" (ex - "Prince Alfonso" ex-"libertad"). Built in El Ferrol, her keel laid on November 24, 1922, she was launched on 3 January 1925 and delivered on October 11, 1927. With a length of 176,6 m., manga 16.6 m and depth 5,03 m moving 7.975 tn. Powered by 8 Yarrow boilers and 4 sets of turbines Parsons (80,000 HP), reached in evidence 34.7 knots. Her main guns were 8 pieces of 152 mm She was scrapped in 1970.
6. LSD (dock landing ship) "Galicia" L-31 (ex-USS "San Marcos" LSD-25), the "Casa Grande" class. Built in the shipyards of the US. Navy in Philadelphia, her keel laid on 1 September 1944, she was launched on 10 January 1945 and entered service in the Navy on April 15, 1945. He handed over to the Spanish Navy on 1 July 1971. It was decommissioned in 1987, broken up in 1989. With a displacement full load of 9,400 tons., it reached 15.5 knots and could carry 9 LCM-8.

Ship assault amphibian "Castilla" (L-52), second ship of the class "Galicia", was built by the Empresa Nacional Bazán (today, Navantia) in El Ferrol. Its construction began in May of 1997, she was launched on 14 June 1999 and delivered to the Navy on June 26, year 2000, replacing the old transport attack "Aragon" (L-22).

The current "Castilla" is the twelfth in the history of the Navy that bears this name. The previous were:

1. Patache Navy Royal of Flanders (1628).
2. Corvette 12 guns (1728).
3. 62-Gun ship built in Guarnizo 1729-30 and entered service on January 11, 1730. He was ordered to scrapping in 1736.
4. 60-Gun ship built in Havana and launched on 13 June 1737. It sank off Veracruz in 1751 by a storm.
5. 64-Gun ship built in El Ferrol in 1751. She was wrecked on 30 September 1769 in a temporary near Veracruz, although other sources indicate it was decommissioned in 1771.
6. Last ship sailing with this name. 64-Gun ship built in Ferrol in 1780. Due to a strong temporary finalized stranded near Cadiz and was burned by the French in 1810.
7. "Queen of Castile", first ship to steam with this realm name. Built in Ditchburn & Mare (London) in 1846 and assigned to hydrographic commissions. He had a 160 HP machine.
8. Purchased Mexico ship in 1846, old "Montezuma". Built Green & Wigram (London) in 1842, he had a 300 HP machine. First steam I cross the Atlantic from West to East (1848).
9. Unprotected first class Cruiser built in the ratchet (1881). 3.342 Tn. with a machine of 1,100 HP reached 15.9 knots and her main guns were 4 pieces of 150 mm. He took part in the battle of Cavite, where destroyed (1 may 1898).
10. Former transport attack "USS Achernar" (AKA-53), built in 1943-44 by Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Co. in New Jersey, entered service on January 31, 1944. Displaced 14,200 tn and gave 16.5 knots. Transferred by the United States February 2, 1965. He served in the Navy (paragraph TA-21) until 1980. She was scrapped in 1982.
11. Ex-USS "Paul Revere" (LPA 248) transport of attack that gave name to the same class. Built in 1952-53 New York SB. Corp., entered service in the US. Navy in September 1958. Moving 16.828 tn and gave 20 knots. Transferred to Spain the US January 17, 1980. He served in the Navy until 6 June 1998.