Spain Navy Infanta Elena Sunk

The decommissioned patrol vessel Infanta Elena (P-76) was sunk as a target in the Atlantic during the Spanish Navy's SINKEX 26 live-fire exercise, the Navy announced on 4 November 2026, hit by a single torpedo from the submarine Isaac Peral (S-81). According to the Navy, the frigates Cristóbal Colón and Navarra, the multipurpose ship Carnota, the patrol vessel Relámpago, three AV-8B Harriers, a helicopter, a ScanEagle drone and an Air and Space Force maritime patrol aircraft also took part; the hull had been decontaminated beforehand. Built at Cartagena as the Descubierta-class corvette F33 and delivered in 1980, she was reclassified as a patrol vessel in 2004 and left service in March 2023; her sinking removed no hull from the active fleet.