La Armada Franquista

The Nationalist Navy

España Class Battleship

España

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The España class was a series of three dreadnought battleships that were built for the Spanish Navy between 1909 and 1921: España, Alfonso XIII, and Jaime I. The ships were ordered as part of an informal mutual defense agreement with Britain and France, and were built with British support.

Canarias Class Heavy Cruiser

Canarias

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The Canarias class was a class of heavy cruiser of the . Two ships of the class were completed in the 1930s. They were built in Spain by the Vickers-Armstrongs subsidiary Sociedad Española de Construcción Naval upon a British design, and were a modified version of the Royal Navy′s County class.

Canarias Class Heavy Cruiser

Baleares 1936 Iteration

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Baleares was a Canarias-class heavy cruiser of the Spanish Navy whose control was taken by the Nationalist side during the Spanish Civil War, initially entering service without her Y Turret.

Canarias Class Heavy Cruiser

Baleares 1937 Iteration

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Baleares was constructed in Spain by the Vickers-Armstrongs subsidiary Sociedad Española de Construcción Naval, and saw service during the Spanish Civil War, when she was torpedoed and sunk by destroyers of the Spanish Republican Navy during the Battle of Cape Palos.

Almirante Cervera Class Cruiser

Almirante Cervera

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The Almirante Cervera class were three light cruisers built for the Spanish Navy in the 1920s. The ships were built by Sociedad Española de Construcción Naval in Ferrol which had strong British links and were designed by Sir Philip Watts.

Reina Victoria-Eugenia Class Cruiser

Navarra

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Navarra was a cruiser serving the Spanish Navy from 1923 to 1956. Construction on Reina Victoria Eugenia—the ship’s original name—began in 1915 by Sociedad Española de Construcción Naval in Ferrol. The design showed considerable British design influence resembling contemporary British Town-class cruisers.

Churruca Class Destroyer 2nd Series

Císcar

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The 2^nd Series Churruca’s only had four 120 mm guns, but two 76 mm (3-in) AA guns, in place of the missing 4.7 in between the funnels, owing to the lack of supply of parts following the 1936 neutrality ban. Other minor design differences including upgraded main guns with larger shields and reworked pivot.

Alsedo Class Destroyer (Type 2)

Velasco

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The Alsedo class was a Spanish class of destroyer. Three ships were built, based on a British design, entering service between 1924 and 1925. They all served through and survived the Spanish Civil War, two on the Republican side and one with the Nationalists.

Ex-Italian Ceuta Class Destroyers

Velasco-Ceuta & Velasco-Melilla

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Laid down in Italy as the Vifor Class for Romania they were transferred to the Nationalists at the start of 1939. Originally called Aquila and Falco under Italian service they were renamed Melilla and Ceuta using the prefix Velasco to conceal their Italian origin.

Ex-Italian Huesca Class Destroyers

Huesca & Teruel

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The Huesca-class destroyers were two Italian destroyers of the Alessandro Poerio class, completed shortly before the end of World War I. They were sold to Spain by Mussolini’s Italy when, due to their conditions and age, they could hardly be considered operational.

Júpiter Class Minelayer

Júpiter, Vulcano, Mars & Neptune

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Júpiter-class minelayers were built during the Spanish Republic. By July 1936 they were all outfitted in El Ferrol where they passed under Nationalist control. The Júpiter class proved successful and valuable as multipurpose ships actively used by the Nationalists for a multiple of purposes.

Calvo Sotelo Class Gunboat

Calvo Sotelo

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Built under Mexican order as Zacatecas as a gunboat-troop transport, capable of carrying 500 infantrymen and 30 horses, building was suspended because of financial disagreements, eventually coming into Nationalist hands at Cadiz where it was completed as a dedicated gunboat

Castillo Class Gunboat

Eduardo Dato

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At beginning of the war Eduardo Dato fell under Nationalist control. Eduardo Dato was sunk by gunfire from republican battleship Jaime I in Algeciras on 7.8.1936 . Salvaged the same month she was repaired in Cadiz receiving full modernisation and commissioned again in February, 1937

Castillo Class Gunboat

Canovas del Castillo & José Canalejas

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These ships were built under a decree in 1915 as an upgraded variant of the Recalde class. Cánovas del Castillo and José Canalejas served through the civil war receiving their modernisations much later than the recovered Dato.

Recalde Class Gunboat

Lauria

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Four ships of this class were built for colonial service under the law from 7.1.1908. Weak unsuccessful ships with low stability, used basically as patrols.

T-1 Class Torpedo Boat

No's 2, 7, 9, 16 & 19

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Small torpedo boats, which building in number of 25 ships was authorized by the law from 7.1.1908. Design was developed with assistance of Vickers on the basis of French Cyclone class torpedo boats made by Normand, differing from the latter by turbine machinery.

LT Class Motor Torpedo Boats

Cándido Pérez & Javier Quiroga

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Arriving in Spain onboard the Italian cruiser Muzio Attendolo at Ceuta in January 1937, these Italian SVAN 14t MTB’s were ready for action with Italian crews against the Republican fleet, but were unsuccessful. They were transferred to the Spanish Nationalist Navy in Malaga in March 1937.

LT Class Motor Torpedo Boats

Sicilia & Napoles

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These so-called “12-ton” boats conceived by A. Bisio (SVAN) were typical Italian WWI-era MTBs. By the time they were transferred to the Spaniards they were in depressing technical condition and practically had no combat value, basically being employed as patrol launches.

Falanage Class Motor Torpedo Boats

Badajoz, Falange, Oviedo, Requeté & Toledo

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Former German MTBs S2-5, were bought by the Spanish Nationalists during the Civil War. Their petrol engines had considerable deterioration and a low-level of reliability. S3 and S5 were badly damaged at Cadiz during unloading from their cargo vessel and never commissioned by the Spanish navy.

Archimede Class Submarine

General Mola & General Sanjurjo

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Rather successful large submarines of the Italian Archimede class, they were fast with high endurance and well armed. Their Saddle-tank hulls gave them a dive depth of up to 90m. Both boats operated against Republican forces from August 1936. Early 1937 they were assigned to Government of Franco.

Perla Class Submarines

General Mola II, General Sanjurjo II, González López & Aguilar Tablada

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In October 1937 the Italians secretly transferred to the Nationalists four more submarines: two of Archimede class received Spanish “secret” names General Mola II and General Sanjurjo II whilst two Perla class received the Spanish names Aguilar Tablada and Gonzáles López.

Converted Deep Sea Trawler

Virgen de Begoña

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The Basque failed to convert Iruña into an armed vessel before being captured by Nationalists in dock at the fall of Bilbao in 1937. She was towed off to El Ferrol where after conversion in August, she was commissioned into the National fleet as Virgen de Begoña.

Converted Deep Sea Trawler

Álava

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The Basque bous, Araba was put in for repair in Bilbao due to technical problems in February 1937. In June 1937 she was scuttled when Bilbao fell, but was salvaged by Franco`s troops and commissioned into the National fleet in November 1937 as Álava, sometimes being classed as an Auxiliary Cruiser.

Converted Deep Sea Trawler

Virgen del Carmen

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The Nationalist Virgen del Carmen, changed sides after being captured and diverted to Bilbao by some members of her own crew on 6 December 1936 being converted and commissioned into the Basque Auxiliary Navy as the Donostia

Mersey Class Patrol Boat

Uad Kert

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The Coastguard Patrol Boat Uad Kert fell under Nationalist control in July 1936. Heavily damaged by republican gunfire from the battleship Jaime I at Algeciras in August 1936, she was repaired and was able to serve the Nationalist cause until the end of the war.

Mersey Class Patrol Boat

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Arcíla had been employed as a survey vessel from 1934 when in July, 1936 she fell under the control of the Nationalists under whom she served until the end of hostilities.

Castle Class Patrol boats

Atlántico, Cantábrico, Denis, Iñasi, Pacifico, Virgen del Carmen & Uad Martin

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Former British Admiralty trawlers of Castle type, commissioned by Spanish Navy 11.4.1922. Wooden-hulled. Converted and Armed by both sides for use as Patrol Vessels

Briscard Class Patrol Boat

Larache & Alcázar

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In July, 1936 Alcázar and Larache at Cadiz were transferred under control of Nationalists. Tetuán at Cartagena remained with Republican fleet. 1.3.1939 she was withdrawn by crew from Cartagena to Iviza (Baleares) and commissioned by Nationalists.

Auxiliary Cruiser

Mar Negro & Mar Cantabrico

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Mar Negro & Mar Cantábrico were launched in 1930 spending five years with the Compañía Marítima Del Nervión. They were requisitioned by the Republican Navy in 1936. Captured by Nationalist sympathisers in her crew off Algeria in 1937, they entered Nationalist service in 1938 as auxiliary cruisers.