ENJOY, PROTECT, SHOW THE SPANISH UNDERWATER CULTURAL HERITAGE
ENJOY, PROTECT, SHOW THE SPANISH UNDERWATER CULTURAL HERITAGE
The history of this ship is closely linked to that of the Ulla and the Turia. The three are ships belonging to the Spanish Navy and it was this that yielded them for their subsequent sinking in Murcian coastal waters, (Resolution of the Ministry of Defense 236/1998 of September 10, 1998, BOE 224 of September 18, 1998) . The Navy, in addition to giving up the three ships free of charge, was commissioned ...
On November 18, 1918, the Echeverrieta & Larrinaga company launched the Nadir, a cargo steamship of almost 50 m in length built in the Cádiz shipyard. According to what we are told in the shipyards, it took a long time to sell, as if it had written in its austere lines the dark fate that the future had in store for it. In 1926 it changed its name and was renamed Magurio until ...
The Tordisa, known as the CARBONERO, as they say was torpedoed during the First World War by a German submarine (U 35) that wreaked havoc in the area, going to the bottom until it stayed at 45 m. It is believed that it was loaded with coal, hence its nickname. However, other sources suggest that coal was a cover for the true ammunition load, which was known to the Germans through ...
The SS-Stanfield was a steel steam merchant freighter, 3370 tons, 120 meters long, 15 meters wide and 9 meters deep, with a bridge in the middle of the ship, which set sail on June 5, 1916 from Norfolk, Virginia to Savona, Italy captained by Georges Yannaghas with a cargo of coal for the Italian army. On June 25, 1916 at 11:30 p.m. ...
His sinking took place on October 1, 1918, when he made a trip from Alicante to Sfax, with a shipment of sulfur, and sent to sink off the coast of La Manga, very close to Palos Cabo by the shots of the German UB-type Uboat. -49 (Adolf Ehrensberger), who sent the ship to sink, without warning, the captain having to send the Francoli to abandon hastily. The crew composed of ...
“In front of Cape Palos de Cartagena, in the so-called Bajo de las Hormigas, the Italian steamer Sirio, heading for Buenos Aires, was shipwrecked on Saturday, August 4. The balance of the victims exceeded 200 dead. The ship collided with the shallows, followed by a massive explosion. The corpses were thrown by the waves to the beaches of Murcia and even to that of Santa ...
Like many of the freighters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, this ship was prepared to defend itself against possible attacks. However, the S / S ALAVI on a voyage between Genoa and Cartagena was captured and subsequently sunk by a German submarine U-35 (Captained by Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière) on October 13, 1917 at 8:30 am, 6 miles Northeast of ...