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Fisheries of Basque origin deep in the winter of 1986 after running aground against low known as "La Negra".
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Fisheries of Basque origin deep in the winter of 1986 after running aground against low known as "La Negra".
Spanish coal ship sunk in 1961 when, after running aground on the island of Sálvora, was carried to a nearby beach beach.
The magnificent steam Alfonso XII of the Transatlantic Company, when it was built (in 1875) was the largest steamer afloat with Spanish flag.
Panamanian-flagged freighter chartered by a British broker killed by Franco's naval forces in the Cantabrian coast, near Laredo Bay during the Spanish civil war.
Reinforced Bulk transport ore Antares Maritime property that the July 14, 1986, in the course of a voyage with cargo of 12,000 tonnes of iron ore powder, half an hour after leaving the Port of La Luz, lost
A great depth, about 91 feet, in the vicinity of the Ria de La Coruña are found from the September 19, 1969 the remains of Anna Dutch freighter.
The Spanish Antarctic freighter ran aground on October 6, 1959 west of Las Quebrantas Santander at the entrance when the route was Lobito (Angola) to Santander and carrying 5,000 tons of manganese.
Este buque cargaba polvo de mármol procedente del Puerto de la Garrufa (Almería) y su destino era descargar en Puebla del Camariñal (La Coruña). Problemas con el timón y la baja visibilidad hicieron al barco encallar en “Las Lobeiras” durante una tormenta. El pesquero de Ribeira “San Ramón” logró socorrer a toda la tripulación y no hubo perdidas de vidas humanas. A una profundidad entre 14 y 25 metros, en…
Sinking of a Steamer: "As we acquire news yesterday, on the 16th, sailing around the Cape of Gata, at about half past five p.m., steam Czechoslovak" Arna ", registration of Prague, collided with a Laja
The Italian freighter Avvenire, called "Marmoler" by loading large blocks of marble that is still preserved in their cellars, wrecked in May 1971 because of a storm that was aground on the coast of Estartit.
The August 22, 1909, about six in the afternoon, in Lower Greek, next to Jandia Lighthouse, sank the "Ballester" after colliding with her, opened a water route and lose the helm
In June 1589 the city of Vigo was ransacked by the British under the command of the famous Drake. There were surprised South temporary prompting two of his small boats naufragasen on the north coast of the estuary. Immediately they were torched by neighbors, to prevent refloating. Currently there are only two groups of two guns. The remains have been despoiled. Source: Yago Crespo Abilleira
In full World War II, a French couple patrolmen tried to seize German merchant anchored in the Ria de Vigo. On the night of 6th January 1940, the fog caused the "Barsac" is too close to the costa.7 dead and 10 missing. Very scrapped. Armament: 4 100 mm guns, 2 cannons 37 mm, 2 mm anti-aircraft guns 8, depth charges ....
The light cruiser of the Spanish Navy Blas de Lezo during naval maneuvers in June 1932, compared to Finisterre, when sailing between the coast and O'Centolo Shoal, collided with one of the two existing stone needles there, unmarked
Vapor-mail transport shipping company Antonio Lopez and bound to the West Indies and transporting the military battalion San Marcial, on March 5, 1862 ran aground on the coast of the island of La Gomera.
The Mediterranean coast of the Iberian Peninsula was widely used by Allied merchant ships during World War 1 as a transit route given the Spanish neutrality during the war.
The armored cruiser of the Spanish Navy Cardinal Cisneros, in the exercise of maneuvers in the Galician estuaries, sailed on October 28, 1905 of its walls anchorage Ferrol bound to repair some minor problems in their boilers.
En la madrugada del 11 de diciembre de 1917, con la primera guerra mundial en curso, el transatlántico italiano Cavour que había partido de Génova dos días antes con destino a Buenos Aires tiene un violento choque con el “Cabrera”, una de las naves de vigilancia que lo acompañaba para protegerlo del ataque de barcos enemigos. Parece que a los fuertes vientos reinantes, se unió la oscuridad como motivo del…
Steam freighter sunk Austro-Hungarian July 28, 1913, three miles west of Cape Prioriño Grande.
Fishing sunk after a collision on August 31, 1975. No one was killed. Without scrap. Source: Yago Crespo Abilleira
In September 1963 this height tug French Navy and decommissioned, towed traveling from a port to a port Algerian French noon to be scrapped.
The Mediterranean coast of the Iberian Peninsula was widely used by Allied merchant ships during World War 1 as a transit route given the Spanish neutrality during the war.
The Mediterranean coast of the Iberian Peninsula was widely used by Allied merchant ships during World War 1 as a transit route given the Spanish neutrality during the war.
The inability to fish in the Sahara coast meant the dismantling of much of the fishing fleet, as in the case of the three ships that were sunk in 2004 in the area to promote diving tourism.
In the 70's were sunk a group of wooden fishing boats to promote diving tourism in the area.
This pushed Portuguese freighter ran aground by a storm January 17, 2004 while at anchor near the concrete cube 70th of Punta Lucero breakwater in the port of Bilbao.
The freighter "Dina", known colloquially as "From the beans" for the cargo carrying (cans of beans), remain stranded in the area since it ran aground during a storm in April 1983.
Buque trasatlántico francés de vela y vapor que se fue a pique en el mes de mayo de 1895 tras encallar en los bajíos del Cabo Corrubedo, situados dos millas al suroeste del mismo. En el momento del naufragio llevaba a bordo 130 personas, de las que murieron 89. Procedía de El Havre (Francia) y tras haber hecho escala en Burdeos y Guipúzcoa, se dirigía a Carril, en Villagarcía de…
The ferry Don Pedro, in charge of the route Ibiza Denia sank on July 11, 2007 after running aground against a low islet Since Small.
The Dragonera freighter 65 m in length, starting at some points lying on a background of mud and sand between 14 and 23 m, and which highlights the presence of bream and golden in some of their holes, was sunk in
The history of this boat is very close to the Ulla and Turia. All three are vessels belonging to the Spanish Armada and it was this which gave way for subsequent collapse in murcianas coastal waters (MoD Resolution 236/1998 of 10 September 1998, BOE 224 of 18 September 1998) . The Navy, in addition to give free three ships, was responsible ...
Shortly after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, the battleship "Spain", moored at Ferrol, and operational use either for their antiquity, was taken by the National Forces.
The Spanish freighter Francisquita, from the port of Seville with 100 tons of beet pulp and a game of cork, sank on December 17, 1952, 1.4 miles NW of Punta Nati on the coast of Menorca as a result of the
This merchant was carrying 950 tons of borax (sodium borate) from Rotterdan to Barcelona when the ship ran aground in the Lower Delgados, three miles from Cape Prior, and suffered a leak beyond repair.
In the surf zone wave, beachfront Hole, on the island of Gran Canaria, are the remains of a wooden ship modern era.
In the Ria de Vigo, between the island of St. Simon and Modernity Bridge, are submerged Rande Galleons.
About 50 meters from the cliffs of Mascarat Galiana the remains of a fishing boat about 15 meters long sunk to a depth of 21 meters.
Underwater sold by Mussolini Franco in the Spanish Civil War. In that contest he sank 4 ships and damaged another. It is the "Ace of Aces" of the Spanish Armada. In December 1959 while being towed for scrapping, he broke out the trailer at the height of Ons, crashing against the shore. There were no fatalities. Very scrapped. Armament: 2 guns of 100 mm, 2 anti-aircraft machine guns 13'2 ...
The ship, owned by Naviera Ferros, was the route from Gijon to Bilbao with a full load of coal.
Fish that were to scrap and gave to sink underwater and promote tourism in the area.
In the heart of "War of the six years' war a French squadron consisting of the ship" Courageoux "and the frigate" Malicieuse "and" Hermine "returning from the West Indies after carrying soldiers and supplies.
The November 18, 1918 the company dropped the Echeverrieta & Nadir Larrinaga a cargo steamer of nearly 50 m in length, built at the shipyard in Cadiz.
Sailboat sunk about four miles from the port of Ibiza in the early 90s of last century, to a maximum depth of 48 meters.
El Tordisa, conocido como el CARBONERO, según cuentan fue torpedeado durante la primera Guerra Mundial por un submarino Alemán (U 35) que hizo estragos en la zona, yéndose al fondo hasta quedarse en 45 m. Se cree que iba cargado de carbón de ahí su apodo.Sin embargo, otras fuentes apuntan que el carbón era una tapadera de la verdadera carga de municiones, que era conocida por los alemanes a través…
These two freighters of about 50 meters long sunk in the harbor of Burriana were refloated, taken from the port and re-anchor to create an artificial reef in the late twentieth century.
These guns belonged to a ship that had crashed into the stone and to release and save the waterway that had released all the guns of a band with anchors to be escorase to the other side and bridge the gap that had been done by the impact. Sources: oceanuscadiz; waterbugs
This French freighter suffered a tragic boating accident off the coast of SW end of the island of Menorca on January 2, 1929 after colliding against Escull des Governor.
Greek-flagged tanker from the North Sea carrying 79,081 tons of oil to Repsol refinery in Corunna, of which an estimated 67,000 sea poured.
Mardinian was a British cargo on a voyage from Calcutta to London was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine on May 19, 1917 off the coast of Santa Pola.
Fisheries iron and wood that is perched on a sandy bottom at 51 meters maximum depth.
Small fishing about 20 feet long sunk in April 1982 between Dragonera Island and the coast of Mallorca.
This vessel was Villaricos route to Gibraltar with a cargo of iron ore when he suffered a collision with the ship Iddesleigh, marking its collapse.
"The Barge" or "Wreck of Tunny", is actually the Miau, a barge carrying mineral and wrecked in 1950.
The Mina Mary was a merchant ship that caught fire in the port of Bermeo in 1963, and was towed out of the harbor, where it sank.
The Mediterranean coast of the Iberian Peninsula was widely used by Allied merchant ships during World War 1 as a transit route given the Spanish neutrality during the war.
Wooden fishing boat, about 15 meters, sunk about 300 yards offshore, off the tip of the Miracle.
The June 8, 2007, while being towed from Las Palmas to Turkey for scrapping, the dredge "Nautilus" sank off the salt of Roquetas de Mar. At a depth of-54m, and lying on her starboard side,
This merchant was the route Croatian ore of Biscay (Spain) to Turkey carrying 5,492 tons of pyrite ash.
The Mediterranean coast of the Iberian Peninsula was widely used by Allied merchant ships during World War 1 as a transit route given the Spanish neutrality during the war.
Under Italian flag, the freighter Participation, known locally as "Nina" was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine off the coast of Santa Pola on February 4, 1918, while on a route between Sicily and Liverpool with a cargo of oranges
In the Asturian side of the River Eo, in the cove of Llan, between Arnao Beach and Cape Point da Cruz (in Castropol), was located in 2007 by four underwater archaeological divers Figueras Club Water Activities
2.8 miles from Cala Bona (Mallorca) and 14 meters deep are the remains of a thirteenth-century merchantman.
Company freighter sunk Asturian Basque April 15, 1905 in the vicinity of the Palos de Poo, a mile and a half from Puerto de Llanes.
Freighter owned by Naviera Medina devoted to coastal trade between the islands and the Spanish Sahara.
The Polycommander was an oil Norwegian flag on May 5, 1970 ran aground on a close to the island of Monteagudo, in the Cies low, due to an error of the captain as he left the Vigo estuary, causing the biggest ecological disaster of this ria: the reef tore his port side, causing a fire and spilling 15,000 tons of crude. By the oil spill ...
This steam freighter British sank off the Cantabrian coast on May 14, 1901 after running aground when it was St. Nazaire route to Santander.
It was in the '70s, when a figure appeared noon this unfortunate ship on the horizon Andalusian Atlantic.
The name of this fish gives a good account of the preferential direction I had planned, the African coast.
Initially a ferry, primarily for the transport of trains, which provided service between the Italian cities of San Giovanni and Messina, since it changed hands in 1987, the Reggio Messina was intended as a floating nightclub in the port of Barcelona to
This ship was the route Malaga Sevilla when it collided with the British frigate HMS Minden.
The Spanish freighter Rio Miera, on December 6, 1951 suffered a collision and sank 4 miles from Cabo Mayor.
The Norwegian merchant sailing to Thailand carrying chemical fertilizers when on the night of October 11, 1976 due to a strong storm suffered a load shift that made the ship heeling.
He SS, Stanfield was a merchant freighter steam steel, shades of 3370, 120 meters long, 15 meters sleeve and 9 meters of shore, with bridge in the mediocrity of it ship, which he zarpó Junio 5th, 1916 from
The Saint-Prosper, known as the "Oil", and carrying 300 tons of crude oil in drums, was a steam merchant ship that sank the French flag March 8, 1939 in the Bay of Roses, to come up with a
In Scotland, saithe stern machine with Norwegian flag, in 1938, loaded with 850 tons of iron pyrite Hinojedo and heading to France, he was surprised heavy seas while crossing the bar corretín Suances and the mouth of
The ship Setares II (the barge) belonged to the "Setares Mining Company" and was responsible for transporting ore from Mioño to Altos Hornos de Vizcaya.
Southern Cross was a British refrigerated cargo steamer that ran aground and capsized at the entrance of the Ria de Vigo on December 24, 1909.
Sunk by the German submarine U-64, the boat is split into two halves at the height of the boiler separating the rest of the ship's bow. The bow lies on its port side exposing its majestic starboard anchor with their respective winch and perfectly kept stowed in his portside. In the part of the torpedo boat exploded perfectly appreciated ...
The SS was a merchant ironworks IMO137411 English flag and registration of Liverpool 121.5 meters long by 15.5 strut, and 4,590 tons of registration. It was built by Short Brothers. Ltd. in Sunderland, with the number of tier 378 and delivered in November 1914. It was a classic is a four wineries with more additional decks between the bridge and the machine had only one chimney on ...
Its fall transcurrio the October 1, 1918, while on a trip from Alicante to Sfax, with a cargo of sulfur, and sent to the bottom off the coast of La Manga, near Cape Palos by gunfire from German Uboat UB type
"Waterfront Cape Palos Cartagena, in the lower called the Ants, sank on Saturday August 4 Italian steam Sirius, bound for Buenos Aires.
Like many of the freighters in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this vessel was ready to defend against possible attacks.
British-flagged freighter Hong Kong and Indian crew (a total of 17 people) who had sailed from Dublin with 5,280 tons of zinc concentrates Zinc Asturian company and seemed ready to dock at the port of Aviles when a storm will
During World War II, German submarines, when they fought against the Allies and harassed American and English merchants in the North Atlantic, the Ria de Vigo used as a shelter, where they stocked up on food, fuel and crew rest.
The first name of this ship was Temple Hall, to be renamed years later by a Greek shipping as Telamon, in honor of one of the legendary Argonauts.
A collision because of the fog with English Esso tanker sinking Cardiff motivated the Swedish merchant Thangoy in November 1953.
The May 12, 1976 the Spanish tanker Urquiola, from the Persian Gulf, stars in the Galician coast of the worst environmental disasters occurred in the Peninsula.
Passenger steamer foundered on February 28, 1887. A late. Very scrapped. Source: Yago Crespo Abilleira
Launched in 1882, the steam passenger and cargo liner French "Ville de Pará", was his third trip from Le Havre to Pernambuco.
The June 30, 1971 Douglas DC3 military aircraft of the Spanish Armada, the Fox 33 -, off the Gando Air Base to El Aaiun to participate in a parachute drop.