Ship:Canarias

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Canarias

Cruiser | Spain | Tier VI

Tech Tree Position

General

Purchase priceSpecial

Hit Points35,100

Main Battery

203 mm/50 BL Model 1924 Mk.D in a turret4 х 2 pcs.

Rate of Fire5 shots/min

Reload Time12 sec

Rotation Speed8 deg/sec

180 Degree Turn Time22.5 sec

Firing Range16.1 km

Maximum Dispersion144 m

AP Shell203 mm AP 256 lb Mk I

Maximum AP Shell Damage3,800

Initial AP Shell Velocity814 m/s

AP Shell Weight85 kg

Secondary Armament #1

120 mm/45 Mk.F on a shielded mount8 х 1 pcs.

Firing Range5 km

Rate of Fire17.1 shots/min

Reload Time3.5 sec

HE Shell120 mm granada rompedora HE

Maximum HE Shell Damage1,700

Initial HE Shell Velocity808 m/s

Chance of Fire on Target Caused by HE Shell8 %

AA Defense

20 mm/65 C/38 on an L/30 single mount2 х 1 pcs.

37 mm/83 SK C/30 on a Dopp LC/30 mount6 х 2 pcs.

120 mm/45 Mk.F on a shielded mount8 х 1 pcs.

Maneuverability

Maximum Speed33 knot

Turning Circle Radius740 m

Rudder Shift Time9.6 sec

Concealment

Surface Detectability Range11.2 km

Air Detectability Range6.5 km

Battle Levels

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VI

Special

Canarias — Spanish special premium Tier VI cruiser.

After signing the Washington Naval Treaty, which specified the maximum characteristics of cruisers, the leading naval powers started building heavy cruisers. Spain, too, strived to keep its fleet effective and modern. In 1928, two cruisers of a new class were laid down. They were named Canarias and Baleares after large Spanish archipelagos. Canarias was the most powerful ship involved in the Spanish Civil War. She took part in the Battle of Cape Spartel, hunted for Republican cargo ships, and attacked coastal fortifications. After the war, Canarias remained the flagship of the Spanish Navy for 40 years.

Canarias first became available during the Gibraltar Pillars event during Update 0.11.1. on 16 Feb 2022.

Modules

	Rate of Fire (shots/min)	180° Turn Time (sec)	Maximum Dispersion (m)	Maximum HE Shell Damage (HP)	Chances of HE shells causing a fire on target (%)	Maximum AP Shell Damage (HP)		Research price (exp)	Purchase price ()
203 mm/50 BL Model 1924 Mk.D in a turret	5	22.5	144			3,800		0	0

	Hit Points (HP)	Armor (mm)	Armor (mm)	Main Turrets (pcs.)	Secondary Gun Turrets (pcs.)	AA Mounts (pcs.)	Torpedo Tubes (pcs.)	Hangar Capacity (pcs.)		Research price (exp)	Purchase price ()
Canarias	35,100	13	51	4	8	2/6/8				0	0

	IDS_SHIP_PARAM_SUO_INCREASE_DIST (%)	Maximum Firing Range (km)		Research price (exp)	Purchase price ()
SCI Mk VI Mod. 1		0		0	0

	Maximum Speed (knot)		Research price (exp)	Purchase price ()
Propulsion: 90,000 hp	33		0	0

Compatible Upgrades

Slot 1
Slot 2
Slot 3
Slot 4

Player Opinion

Performance

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With the large, iconic, and frankly out-of-place Spanish flags along her hull, Canarias is the first Spanish ship to enter the game and quite an unusual heavy cruiser at her tier. To begin, compared to her older counterparts Canarias has access to only Armor Piercing (AP) ammunition for her eight 203mm guns, unlike other cruisers which have access to both AP and High Explosive (HE) ammunition, or in some cases Semi-Armor Piercing (SAP) shells. She compensates for this with improved characteristics on her AP shells, with an improved fuse timer and auto bounce angles reminiscent of Royal Navy light cruisers that allow her to deal consistent damage against thinly armored targets such as destroyers and to score consistent citadel hits on cruisers with exposed citadel plating, though her shells are easily defeated by ships with spaced armor belts.

The uniqueness doesn't stop there. Canarias is also equipped with a French Engine Boost Consumable that grants a 15 percent speed increase for a duration of 180 seconds, or up to 234 seconds with the appropriate module slotted. This, along with the Sierra Mike signal flag, gives Canarias a top speed of 39.4 knots — the highest top speed of any of the Tier VI cruisers and also grants her a unique level of flexibility in being able to reposition quickly to deal with threats.

Speaking of threats, however, this is where the shortcomings begin. Canarias, unfortunately, doesn't get any improved armor plating similar to Pensacola, or even a heal similar to Devonshire, with which she more or less shares an armor scheme. Her armor renders her somewhat fragile against battleship-caliber weaponry, though she does have a nice big slug of health at 35,100 health points. In addition, while she does come armed with 8-inch (203mm) guns, her AP alpha is actually very low, at just 3800 versus 4400-4600 for most cruisers at this tier, and while the improved fuse and ricochet angles result in consistently damaging salvos, they won't really hurt that much against anything larger than a cruiser, even with her fairly quick 12 second reload time and fairly good 16.15km maximum range.

Overall, while Canarias does bring something fresh and unique to the table as far as Tier VI cruiser game play, as well as being another unique historical premium ship, her game impact and damage dealing ability is largely limited to dealing with destroyers and light cruisers. She lacks HE shells to set consistent fires and her chip damage versus battleships stacks up slowly against the more well-armored targets at Tier VI or higher tiers. So while a good ship, she's not exactly spectacular, but definitely makes up for it by being fresh and unique.

Pros:

• Good health pool of 35,100 HP
• Decent to good main battery range
• Quick-ish reload for a Tier VI heavy cruiser
• Royal Navy-style AP Shells.
• High speed with Engine Boost
• Good concealment of 10km with Concealment Expert

Cons:

• No HE shells
• AP, while improved, does lower damage compared to 8-inch armed counterparts
• Fairly mediocre armor scheme and plating
• Poor AA Defenses

Research

As a premium ship, Canarias has no module upgrades to research.

Optimal Configuration

Upgrades

The recommended upgrades are:

• Slot 1: Main Armaments Modification 1
• Slot 2: Engine Room Protection
• Slot 3: Aiming Systems Modification 1
• Slot 4: Propulsion Modification 1 or Steering Gears Modification 1

Commander Skills

Recommended Commander Skills
Cost (points)	Attack				Defense
1	Grease the Gears +15% main battery traverse speed. ★★	Swift Fish +5% torpedo speed.	Consumable Specialist −7.5% cooldown time of all Consumables except:  Damage Control Party   Repair Party .	Gun Feeder -40% time to switch shell type.	Incoming Fire Alert Receive a warning of a salvo fired at your ship from more than 4.5km. ★	Last Stand The ship remains able to move and maneuver - slowly - while the engine or steering gears are incapacitated. ★★
2	Demolition Expert +1% chance of main and secondary HE shells causing a fire. +15% to the fragmentation damage area of HE ordnance fired at submarines.	Fill the Tubes -10% torpedo tubes reload time.	Consumables Enhancements +10% action time of Hydroacoustic Search, Surveillance Radar, Smoke Generator, & Engine Boost. ★★	Eye in the Sky Spotting Aircraft: • +2 charges • -50% cooldown time.	Priority Target The detection indicator will show the number of enemies targeting you with main battery. ★★	Focus Fire Training In an active priority AA sector: •  +1.5% (to 5%) immediate damage. •  +25% continuous damage. •  +1 flak burst per salvo. −10% aircraft preparation time. −15% reload time of Airstrike armament.. ★
3	Heavy HE and SAP Shells +10% HE and SAP shell damage. +15% ship detectability guns 149mm and up.	Pack a Punch +15% torpedo damage. +20% secondary battery range..	Adrenaline Rush -0.2% reload time of all armaments per 1% HP lost +0.2% AA continuous damage per 1% HP lost. ★★★	Heavy AP Shells +5% damage for AP shells 190mm and larger. ★★★	Superintendent +1 charge to all consumables. ★★	Survivability Expert +450 HP per ship tier. ★★
4	Top Grade Gunner -10% reload time of secondary batteries If enemy ship is spotted within detectability range, -8% reload time of main battery. ★★	Outnumbered If there are fewer allies than visible enemies within the ship's base main caliber firing range: +8% ship speed -10% main battery dispersion. ★	Radio Location Shows the direction to the nearest enemy ship. The enemy is alerted that a bearing has been taken.. ★★★	Inertial Fuse for HE Shells +25% armor penetration of HE shells Base fire chance reduced by half.	Concealment Expert -10% detectability range of the ship. ★★★	AAA & ASW Expert +25% continuous AA and flak damage. +15% damage inflicted by depth charges. While AAA is active: −50% ship consumables reload time.. ★
Key: ★★★ - Extremely Useful      ★★ - Frequently Useful      ★ - Occasionally Useful     No stars - Not Useful

Consumables

Canarias equips the following consumables:

• Slot 1: Damage Control Party 
• Slot 2: Hydroacoustic Search  – 3 charges
• Slot 3: Engine Boost  – 3 charges

Camouflage

As a premium ship, Canarias comes with Default permanent camouflage and a set of permanent combat bonuses.

Signals

Recommended Signal Flags
Combat
Charlie Kilo +5% ship HP; +2.5% squadron HP.	Juliet Yankee Bissotwo -20% to flooding duration.	India Yankee -20% to fire duration.	Hotel Yankee -20% to damage received when ramming the enemy. +50% to damage dealt when ramming the enemy.	Victor Lima +1% chance for HE bombs and shells with a caliber above 160mm causing a fire. +0.5% chance for bombs and smaller shells causing a fire. +4% chance of torpedoes causing flooding. ★★	India X-Ray +1% chance for HE bombs and shells with a caliber above 160mm causing a fire. +0.5% chance for bombs and smaller shells causing a fire. ★★
Juliet Whiskey Unaone +15% chance of causing flooding.	Mike Yankee Soxisix +5% to secondary battery maximum firing range. -5% to maximum dispersion of secondary battery shells. -5% to secondary battery loading time.	November Echo Setteseven +5% continuous AA damage at all ranges. +5% damage from flak bursts.	Sierra Mike +5% to the ship's maximum speed. ★★★	November Foxtrot -5% reload time on all consumables. ★★★	India Delta +20% to the amount of HP recovered when Repair Party  is used.
X-Ray Papa Unaone +10% action time of a Smoke Generator .	Sierra Bravo +10% action time of Hydroacoustic Search  -10% reload time of Defensive AA Fire . ★★

Gallery

Historical Info

Canarias, 1936

Construction

Builder: Sociedad Española de Construcción Naval; Ferrol, Galicia, Spain

Laid down: August 15 1928

Launched: May 28 1931

Commissioned: September 13 1936

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Specifications

10,282 tons displacement, standard

13,969 tons displacement, full load

193,9m length

19,51m beam

6,275m draft

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Machinery

8 Yarrow: boilers

4 Parsons : turbines

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Performance

33 knots at 90,0000 shaft horsepower

7000nm range at 15 knots

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Armor

Main belt: 50mm

Torpedo bulkhead: 25mm

Decks: 38mm main, 38mm upper deck

Turrets: 25mm

Conning tower: 25mm

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Armament

Main

Eight (4x2) 203mm rifles

Secondary

Eight (8x1) 120mm dual purpose rifles

Anti-Aircraft

Eight (8x1) 40mm guns

Torpedoes

Twelve (4x3) 533mm torpedo tubes but were never installed

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Aircraft

Two (2) float planes, two catapult but were never installed

History

Design

Canarias and Baleares found their origin under Ley de 13 de julio de 1926 focussed on Spanish naval rearmament, three Canarias-class cruisers were planned: Canarias, Baleares, and Ferrol which was never laid down due to lack of funding. Following the Washington Naval Treaty limitations, the Canarias-class couldn't carry any armament greater than 203mm and larger displacement than 10,000 tons. Her design was based on the Royal Navy's Vickers-Armstrong–designed County-class heavy cruisers.

British engineer Philip Watt (Armstrong shipyard manager) was appointed as a chief design officer. Plans were accepted by Sociedad Española de Construcción Naval on May 31, 1928. Canarias was laid down on August 15, 1928, and it was to be delivered in 1933 but this wasn't possible until 1936.

Spanish Civil War

Canarias was unfinished at the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War but the Nationalist side decided they wanted her to join active service as soon as possible so a lot of effort was put into the final building stages. When she joined Nationalist Navy the ship lacked main artillery firing direction and secondary armament. It was even necessary to transfer crew from other ships to form the crew of the Canarias.

Canarias and her unfinished sister ship Baleares fought in the Spanish Civil War for the Nationalists. She saw action in the following battles: Batalla del Cabo Espartel, Batalla del Cabo Machichaco, Battle of Malaga (where she took part in the war crimes known as Malaga-Almeria road massacre), bombing of Alicante, bombing of Barcelona and the important battle of Cabo de Palos where her sister Baleares was sunk by torpedos from Republican Navy destroyer Lepanto. During the war she sank 34 ships.

World War 2

During the Second World War, she unsuccessfully searched for survivors of the German battleship Bismarck. In 1943, she received a small refit, adding German 37mm anti-aircraft cannons.

Coversion plans into an aircraft carrier

In 1946, the Spanish Government started developing plans for conversion into a 12,000 ton light aircraft carrier. Spain was under an international aislament and building his own carrier was the only possibility left. The design consisted in maintaining the ship’s hull and engine and transforming the rest of the ship. But in 1951 the plan was halted and later in 1953 with the approval of the purchase of ships from the USN it was totally abandoned.

Ifni War

She participated in the Ifni War from 1957 to 1958. She performed logistical duties as well as naval support against Moroccan militia positions. She also took part in the very successful dissuasive action of December 9, 1957 against the Moroccan government which made the Moroccan government change its policies about the conflict.

Equatorial Guinea Independence Crisis

In 1969, Canarias took part in the Equatorial Guinea Independence Crisis under the name of Operación Ecuador due to the collapse of the Spanish colonial administration. Following the United Nations directives for the decolonization in Africa, a referendum was held. 64,32% of the population voted for independence so a recall was needed for all Spanish personnel whether civilian or military. During the operation, Canarias carried back to Spain a total of 280 men, 230 vehicles, two planes, and one helicopter.

Canarias's fate

She was finally decommissioned in 1975, making her the last heavy cruiser in active service and the last surviving Washington Naval Treaty cruiser. Several attempts at conversion into a museum ship failed due to a lack of funds. The ship was finally scrapped in 1977. She was also the last cruiser survivor from the Washington Treaties era.

Historical Inaccuracies

• Despite being labeled "203 mm AP 256 lb", Canarias' shells are given an in-game weight of only 85kg (187.39lb) instead of the historically correct 116.12kg (256lb). The muzzle velocity of 814m/s is also significantly lower than the historical 885m/s.

Historical Gallery

• 
  Naval postage stamp from the 1940s. Original World War 2 camouflage can be seen, same as the one we got in-game.
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  Canarias docked at port.
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  Canarias's regular camouflage scheme.
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  Canarias docked at Barcelona. Columbus Monument, Barcelona can be seen behind the ship.
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  Baleares after naval combat.
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  Canarias performing a naval patrol.
• 
  Canarias sailing to be scrapped in 1977.

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References

Ship Change Log

• Available for testing by supertesters in the game starting from Update 0.10.11.

Testing Changes

• DevBlog 243:
  • Preliminary characteristics.
• DevBlog 257:
  • The ship will lose approximately 15% less speed while turning.
  • Interval between salvos in the alternate firing mode increased from 1 to 1.2 s.
  • Main battery reload time in the alternate firing mode increased from 40 to 45 s.
• DevBlog 264:
  • Alternate Burst Fire mode removed.
  • Main battery firing range increased from 14.5 to 16.5 km.
  • Added Engine Boost consumable that increases maximum speed by 15%.
  • Main battery reload time decreased from 15 to 10 s.
  • Changed AP shell parameters:
    • Maximum damage increased from 3,800 to 4,500.
    • Armor penetration doubled.
• DevBlog 269:
  • Main battery reload time increased from 10 to 10.5 s.
  • Main battery firing range decreased from 16.5 to 16.1 km.
  • AP shell maximum damage decreased from 4,500 to 4,250.
• DevBlog 275:
  • Main battery reload time increased from 10.5 to 12 s.
  • AP shell maximum damage decreased from 4,250 to 3,800.
  • Base detectability range by sea increased from 10.8 to 11.5 km. Other detectability ranges increased accordingly.

• Update 0.11.1:
  • First available for 70 Mediterranean Tokens during the Gibraltar Pillars event.
• Update 0.11.5:
  • The name of the main battery caliber shell was changed from 203 mm AP 256 lb to 203 mm AP 256 lb Mk I

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