Vapores de Ángel Pérez







        This company was owned by the Grupo Perez.


Angel B. Perez

Shipyard / Year	Osbourne Graham & Co. / 1892
Name	Miramar
Dead weight	3,800	MT
Gross register	2,415	GRT
Length	88.5	mtr
Breadth	11.6	mtr
Depth	6.1	mtr
Propulsion	Reciprocating triple expansion
Power	1,150	H.P.
Bought	1909	to
Owner	Beeslack Steamship Co.
Name	Miramar
Sold	1919	to
Owner	Carlos Gutiérrez Latorre
Name	Valverde
Owner / Year	Compañía Naviera Bidasoa / 1923
Name	Urumea
Sunk	Collision / 1924

Carolina E. de Perez

Shipyard / Year	Ropner and Sons / 1896
Name	Suningdale
Dead weight	3,911	MT
Gross register	2,696	GRT
Length	91.4	mtr
Breadth	13.1	mtr
Depth	5.0	mtr
Propulsion	Reciprocating triple expansion
Power	1,496	H.P.
Bought	1911	to
Owner	J.A. Wood and Co.
Name	Suningdale
Sold	1927	to
Owner	Compañía Naviera Amaya
Name	Zabalari
Owner / Year	Joaquín Velasco Martín / 1930
Name	Mina Carrio
Scrapped	Milford Haven / 1937

Emilia S. de Perez

Shipyard / Year	Gourlay Bros / 1893
Name	Matin
Dead weight	5,379	MT
Gross register	3,997
Length	110.6	mtr
Breadth	13.7	mtr
Depth	8.1	mtr
Propulsion	Reciprocating triple expansion
Power	1,640	H.P.
Bought	1913	to
Owner	R.A. Mudie and Sons
Name	Matin
Scrapped	Blyth / 1931

In Gamazo drydock, of San Martín shipyard, at Santander.


Alfonso Perez La Atalaya - 04/March/1920         She was bought during her first trip by Ángel Pérez. Her propulsion was by turbines, with three boilers to provide the steam. Her consumption was very high, which was not a problem during wartime, but it turned her commercial exploitation into a ruin, aggravated by the low freight rates of those years. Because of them, she remained anchored at Santander for long periods of time waiting for freight to pay her expenses.

Shipyard / Year	J. Coughland and Sons / 1919
Name	War Chief
Dead weight	8,800	MT
Gross register	5,743
Length	125.1	mtr
Breadth	16.5	mtr
Depth	8.4	mtr
Propulsion	Steam turbines
Power	2,650	H.P.
Bought	1919	to
Owner	Imperial Munitions Board
Name	War Chief
Sunk	Shell fired / 1938

        In the photo the ship was at anchor at Sagua la Grande (Cuba) on 1919. In November 1938 she was sunk by the nacionalist auxiliary cruise Nadir, name given as camouflage to the Ciudad de Valencia.
With her original look Modified, with the midship mast removed and the other two lengthened. La Voz de Cantabria - 11/December/1934         She had previously been used as a prison, it was in October 1934 as a result of the Asturian revolution. Once it had been suffocated, part of the prisoners were confined onboard this vessel until they were transferred to the Arantzazu-Mendi.
        In February 1937 she sailed again under the name Cantabria, making several trips under the control of the Republican government. On November 2 of that same year, when she was steaming through the North Sea, she was intercepted by the national auxiliary cruiser Nadir, which was the name given as camouflage to the Ciudad de Valencia. When trying to flee she was repeatedly shelled until, being hit in the steam lines, she was left adrift and was abandoned by the crew, sinking shortly after.


Narrative about the Cantabria sinking This narrative has been written by María del Mar Argüelles, granddaughter of the ship's Master.

Photo of the Master, his family and rescuers

Rescue of the Master and his family
History taken from a book relating salvages by British lifeboats.

  Spanish version 


    

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