Adolfo Ramírez Escudero

Adolfo Ramírez Escudero

Asun A. Cola - Collection P.Blanco

As A. Cola, when yet owned by Compañía Valenciana de Vapores Correos de África.

Shipyard / Year	Denton Gray & Co. - Hartlepool / 1867
Name	*Emma*
Owner / Year	Sons of T.Haynes - Cádiz / 1893
Name	*Jhon Haynes*
Owner / Year	Rius y Torres - Barcelona / 1899
Name	*Gabriel Rius*
Owner / Year	Cía. Valenciana de Vap. Correos / 1912
Name	*A. Cola*
Owner / Year	Compañía Trasmediterránea / 1917
Name	*A. Cola*
Dead weight	910	MT
Gross register	1,018	GRT
Length	64.9	mtr
Breadth	9.2	mtr
Depth	5.6	mtr
Maximum draft	5.3	mtr
Propulsion	Reciprocating compound
Power	505	H.P.
Speed	10	knots
Bought	1930	to
Owner	Compañía Trasmediterránea
Name	*A. Cola*
Scrapped	Euskalduna - Bilbao / 1933

These two photos are from their time like Gabriel Rius Gabriel Rius - Collection J. Careaga

Fito

Drawing of her sister ship Cabo Machichaco On 23/October/1930, she suffered a collision with the French ship Dunarea 12 miles from Corrubedo that caused water leaks, sinking in the early hours of the next day one mile from the Island of Sálvora, located at the entrance to the Ría de Arosa. She was heading to Villagarcía de Arosa to load lumber.

Shipyard / Year	Schlesinger Davis - Newcastle / 1881
Name	*Cypriano*
Owner / Year	Ybarra y Compañía / 1885
Name	*Cabo Ortegal*
Owner / Year	Teodoro Seebold - San Sebastián / 1917
Name	*Valentin*
Owner / Year	W. González Garra - San Sebastián / 1917
Name	*Valentin*
Owner / Year	J.M. Scala Astiazarán - Bilbao / 1924
Name	*Marivi*
Dead weight	2,397	MT
Gross register	1,453	GRT
Length	78.8	mtr
Breadth	10.2	mtr
Depth	5.8	mtr
Propulsion	Reciprocating compound
Power	825	H.P.
Speed	8	knots
Bought	1930	to
Owner	José María Scala Astiazarán - Bilbao
Name	*Fito*
Collision	23/10/1930 - 12 miles from Corrubedo
Sunk	24/10/1930 - Close to Island of Sálvora

Manuela E. Danielito - Vida Marítima

In the foreground, at Tarragona as Danielito. Behind her was the Jose Taya. She was shipwrecked on 19/March/1934 at Gijón, and was sunk as a breakwater.

Shipyard / Year	Henry Satre - Arles - Francia / 1887
Owner	J.O.P. de Santander
Name	*San Celedonio*
Owner / Year	Daniel Zubimendi - Bilbao / 1917
Converted	From hopper to cargo ship
Name	*Danielito*
Owner / Year	Matías Mallol - Tarragona / 1922
Name	*Ciutat de Reus*
Dead weight	826	MT
Gross register	532	GRT
Length	46.3	mtr
Breadth	8.3	mtr
Depth	3.8	mtr
Propulsion	Reciprocating compound
Power	300	H.P.
Speed	8	knots
Bought	1930	to
Owner	Matías Mallol - Tarragona
Name	*Ciutat de Reus*
Wrecked	18/03/1934 - Gijón

Fito

As Milo

Shipyard / Year	Willian Gray & Co. - Hartlepool / 1892
Name	*Milo*
Owner / Year	Cía. Anónima de Navegación / 1900
Name	*Gobelas*
Owner / Year	Compañía Marítima del Nervión / 1907
Name	*Gobelas*
Owner / Year	Compañía Gijonesa de Vapores / 1914
Name	*Velazquez Duro*
Owner / Year	Ferrer Peset Hermanos / 1916
Name	*Marques del Turia*
Owner / Year	Compañía Trasmediterránea / 1918
Name	*Marques del Turia*
Dead weight	2,500	MT
Gross register	1,745	GRT
Length	86.1	mtr
Breadth	11.2	mtr
Depth	5.9	mtr
Maximum draft	5.5	mtr
Propulsion	Reciprocating triple expansion
Power	1,330	H.P.
Speed	8	knots
Bought	1936	to
Owner	Compañía Trasmediterránea
Name	*Marques del Turia*
Scrapped	Bilbao / 1936

Maria Dolores

As Españoleto, When yet owned by Compañía Valenciana de Vapores Correos de África.

Shipyard / Year	S.P. Austin & Son - Sunderland / 1890
Name	*Adriático*
Owner / Year	Oscar de Olavarria y Cía. / 1899
Name	*Matías F. Bayo*
Owner / Year	Rodríguez y Cerra / 1911
Name	*Matias F. Bayo*
Owner / Year	Compañía Gijonesa de Vapores / 1914
Name	*Matias F. Bayo*
Owner / Year	Ferrer Peset Hermanos / 1916
Name	*Españoleto*
Owner / Year	Compañía Trasmediterránea / 1917
Name	*Españoleto*
Dead weight	1,710	MT
Gross register	1,358	GRT
Length	71.9	mtr
Breadth	10.7	mtr
Depth	4.6	mtr
Propulsion	Reciprocating triple expansion
Power	925	H.P.
Speed	9	knots
Bought	1932	to
Owner	Compañía Trasmediterránea
Name	*Españoleto*
Scrapped	Bilbao / 1937

San Juan II Gadir - Collection L. Santa Olaya

As Gadir, during her launching. On 14/July/1944, she was torpedoed and sunk by the British submarine Vivid in Livadia Bay, at the Island of Tilos (Greece), in the Aegean Sea.

Shipyard / Year	Echevarrieta y Larrínaga - Cádiz / 1919
Owner	Vasco Valenciana de Navegación - Bilbao
Name	*Gadir*
Owner / Year	Cía. Marítima Canaria - Tenerife / 1927
Name	*Gadir*
Owner	Álvaro Rodríguez López - Tenerife / 1934
Name	*Santa Ursula*
Nombre 1935	*San Juan II*
Dead weight	682	MT
Gross register	538	GRT
Length	51.4	mtr
Breadth	7.8	mtr
Depth	3.2	mtr
Propulsion	Reciprocating triple expansion
Power	425	H.P.
Speed	8	knots
Bought	1939	to
Owner	Álvaro Rodríguez López - Tenerife
Name	*San Juan II*
Sold	1941	to
Owner	Transcomar - Madrid
Name	*San Juan II*
Name / Year	*Feodosia*
Name / Year	*Suzanne*
Sunk	14/07/1944 - In Livadia Bay

To get an idea of how she was finished, here can be seen one of her sister ships, the Ophir. In this photo can already be seen with the bridge closed, but originally they were with the bridge open.

Adeje Adeje - Vida Marítima

She was sunk on 22/November/1943 near the island of Naxos (Greece), in the Aegean Sea, by a mine laid by the British submarine Torbay.

Shipyard / Year	Ardanaz Beraza - Bilbao / 1919
Owner	Olazabal, Azpitarte y Cía. - Bilbao
Name	*Aingeru Zar*
Owner / Year	José Azpitarte y Uribe Larrea / 1925
Name	*Pablo de Azpitarte*
Owner	Peña Hermanos - Tenerife / 1941
Name	*Adeje*
Dead weight	304	MT
Gross register	253	GRT
Length	36.0	mtr
Breadth	6.4	mtr
Depth	2.8	mtr
Propulsion	Reciprocating compound
Power	150	H.P.
Speed	8.5	knots
Bought	1939	to
Owner	Peña Hermanos - Tenerife
Name	*Adeje*
Sold	1941	to
Owner	Transcomar - Madrid
Name	*Adeje*
Name / Year	Alma / 1943
Name / Year	Nicolajew / 1943
Sunk	22/11/1943 - Close to Naxos (Greece)

Isora

She was sunk on 28/February/1944 three miles off the island of Navarino (Greece), in the Aegean Sea. She was torpedoed by the British submarine Unsparing and finished off by Allied aviation.

Shipyard / Year	Mutiozábal y Fernández - Bilbao / 1920
Owner	Mutiozábal y Fernández
Name	*Axpe*
Owner / Year	José Peña Hernández - Tenerife / 1922
Name	*Isora*
Owner / Year	Álvaro Rodríguez - Tenerife / 1933
Name	*Isora*
Dead weight	405	MT
Gross register	316	GRT
Length	36.6	mtr
Breadth	6.7	mtr
Depth	2.7	mtr
Propulsion	Reciprocating triple expansion
Power	250	H.P.
Speed	9	knots
Bought	1939	to
Owner	Álvaro Rodríguez López - Tenerife
Name	*Isora*
Sold	1941	to
Owner	Transcomar - Madrid
Name	*Isora*
Name / Year	Cherson / 1943
Name / Year	Isis / 1943
Sunk	23/02/1944 - Close to Navarino

Berga

This ship, instead of being sold in 1941 to a shipping company controlled by Germany, like the previous ones, was sold to the British Government, which appointed Elster Dempster Lines as her managers, emerging unscathed from the war. In 1949 the British Government sold her to a British shipping company, which in 1955 sold her to a Brazilian one. She always kept the name under which she was launched, except for three years from 1923 to 1926, when she was owned by a British shipping company and renamed Barflo. Under the Brazilian flag she lasted less than a year, since on 05/January/1956 she was shipwrecked near Maranhao (Brazil) during a trip from Sao Luiz to Río de Janeiro with genetal cargo.
There is another version according to which she was also sold to Transcomar in 1941, and she was finally scrapped at Bilbao in 1948. In the Lista Oficial de Buques of 1942 she appears as owned by Transcomar, on the other hand, did not change her name or to German flag like the rest. For all this, her true story is not clear, but the follow-up that can be done through Lloyds is the one indicated in the first place.

Shipyard / Year	Astilleros del Mediterráneo / 1921
Owner	Figueroa y Campos - Valencia
Name	*Berga*
Owner / Year	Cía. Naviera Española - Valencia / 1921
Name	*Berga*
Owner / Year	E.G. Tyerman Limited - R.U. / 1923
Name	*Barflo*
Owner / Year	Hijos de R. Bosch - Barcelona / 1926
Name	*Berga*
Dead weight	959	MT
Gross register	804	GRT
Length	58.8	mtr
Breadth	9.0	mtr
Depth	5.7	mtr
Maximum draft	4.2	mtr
Propulsion	Reciprocating triple expansion
Power	500	H.P.
Speed	7	knots
Bought	1939	to
Owner	Hijos de R. Bosch S. en C. - Barcelona
Name	*Berga*
Sold	1941	to
Owner	British Government
Name	*Berga*
Owner / Year	Verano Steamship Co. / 1949
Name	*Berga*
Owner / Year	Mario Dominguis Martins / 1955
Name	*Berga*
Wrecked	05/01/1956 - Off Maranhao (Brazil)

San Isidro Labrador San Isidro Labrador - Un Siglo con la Marina Mercante

She was torpedoed and sunk on 04/April/1943 by the Greek submarine Katsonis near the island of Kynthos, in the Aegean Sea.

Shipyard / Year	R. Williamson & Son - R.U. / 1904
Owner	Henry Wolfson
Name	*Guanche*
Owner / Year	Manuel Cañadas - Tenerife / 1906
Name	*Guanche*
Owner / Year	Compañía Marítima de Canarias / 1921
Name	*Guanche*
Owner / Year	Hamilton y Compañía - Tenerife / 1925
Name	*Carmen*
Owner / Year	Álvaro Rodríguez López - Tenerife / 1928
Name	*San Isidro Labrador*
Dead weight	349	MT
Gross register	253	GRT
Length	36.6	mtr
Breadth	6.8	mtr
Depth	2.7	mtr
Propulsion	Reciprocating compound
Power	157	H.P.
Speed	8	knots
Bought	1939	to
Owner	Álvaro Rodríguez López - Tenerife
Name	*San Isidro Labrador*
Sold	1941	to
Owner	Transcomar - Madrid
Name	*San Isidro Labrador*
Sunk	04/04/1943 - Greek submarine Katsonis

As can be seen, several ships were sold to Transcomar, the commercial name of the Compañía Comercial Marítima de Transportes. This shipping company was actually owned by the German Government, through front men, and was dedicated to supplying the German forces in North Africa and the Mediterranean, especially in the Greek islands, which is why several of them were sunk in that area. The two that changed their names had changed to German flag in 1943.

Chimenea by A. Mantilla

Compañía Auxiliar Marítima Limitada In 1955 was created a shipping company to flag ships abroad. She owned four ships, although only three at a time since the first one acquired sank after only four years. It disappeared in 1970, with the scrapping of the last of them. The first two were flagged in Costa Rica, the second of them passing to the Panamanian flag after the first sank. The remaining two were flagged directly in Panama.

Ely Thetis - Wear Built Ships

Como Thetis She was bought in 1955 and flagged in Costa Rica. On 30/January/1959, she suffered a collision with the Andreas at 50º01'N - 01º10', in the English Channel. She was towed to the Dunkirk anchorage (France), but on first of February she capsized and sank.

Shipyard / Year	William Gray & Co. - Sunderland / 1930
Name	*Thetis*
Gross register	4,123	GRT
Length	119,1	metros
Breadth	16.4	metros
Depth	10.5	metros
Maximum draft	7,1	metros
Propulsion	Reciprocating triple expansion
Speed	10	knots
Bought	1955	to
Owner	Nereus Steam Navigation Co.
Name	*Thetis*
Sunk	01/02/1959 - Dunkirk (France)

Kori

When she was purchased was flagged in Costa Rica, passing to the Panamanian flag in 1959. She was the last ship of the shipping company, which disappeared when she was scrapped in 1970.

Shipyard / Year	William Gray & Co. - Sunderland / 1930
Name	*Mooncrest*
Dead weight	9,200	MT
Gross register	5,173	GRT
Length	136.4	metros
Breadth	17,1	metros
Depth	7.6	metros
Propulsion	Reciprocating triple expansion
Power	1,800	H.P.
Speed	10	knots
Bought	1956	to
Owner	Crest Shipping Company
Name	*Mooncrest*
Scrapped	Tadotsu (Japan) - 1970

In this lock, into which she seems that she entered quite fairly, the ship was dwarfed by its height. Kori

At Rotterdam (Netherlands)

Hernan Cortes Hernan Cortes by Teo Diedrich

She was a Liberty type ship, which was bought in 1961 and was flagged in Panama. On 15/October/1966 she ran aground on the Alacranes reef, located on the coast of the Yucatan Peninsula. She fell into disrepair, being scrapped in 1967 in nearby Veracruz.

Shipyard / Year	Jones Construction - Brunswick / 1944
Name	*Samingoy*
Name / Year	Stafford / 1947
Name / Year	Bimini / 1950
Dead weight	10,865	MT
Gross register	7,253	GRT
Length	134.6	metros
Breadth	17.3	metros
Depth	12.3	metros
Maximum draft	8.5	metros
Propulsion	Reciprocating triple expansion
Power	2,500	H.P.
Speed	11	knots
Bought	1961	to
Owner	Bahamas Navigation Limited
Name	*Bimini*
Scrapped	Veracruz (México) - 1967

Nuñez de Balboa Nuñez de Balboa by T. Diedrich

She was a typical British ship built during World War II.

Shipyard / Year	J.L. Thompson - North Sands / 1942
Dead weight	10,135	MT
Gross register	7,237	GRT
Length	134.4	metros
Breadth	17.4	metros
Depth	11.7	metros
Maximum draft	8.3	metros
Propulsion	Reciprocating triple expansion
Speed	10.5	knots
Bought	1961	to
Owner	Albyn Line Limited
Name	*Thistlemuir*
Scrapped	Osaka (Japan) - 1968

Nuñez de Balboa - Collection M. Cranfield

Naviera Ramírez Escudero

Cigoitia Cigoitia por F. Estrañi

In 1972 it had a brief resurgence, with the construction of a Freedom Hispania type ship, which was one of the types projected to replace the Liberty ships built during the Second World War. Several ships of this type were built in Spain, but only two for Spanish shipowners, one was this one and the other the Aiboa< /a>, owned by Naviera Galea.
Apart from these, the construction of six for the Chilean shipping company Empresa Marítima del Estado stands out. Three were built in the same shipyard as the two Spanish ones and another three in Unión Naval de Levante, at Valencia. All of them were named after lakes: Lake Llanquihue, Lake Rinihue, Lake LanalhueLake Puyehue, Lake Maihue and Lake Hualaihue, the first three built at Seville and the last three at Valencia, also being in chronological order.

Shipyard / Year	Astilleros Españoles - Sevilla / 1972
Dead weight	16,507	MT
Gross register	9,796	GRT
Length	143.9	mtr
Breadth	20.7	mtr
Depth	12.7	mtr
Maximum draft	9.5	mtr
Propulsion	AESA - Sulzer 6RD68
Power	8,000	H.P.
Speed	16	knots
Sold	1976	to
Owner	Compañía Marítima del Cadagua
Name	*Cigoitia*
Name / Year	*Eastern Pioneer*
Name / Year	*Ocean Knight / 1987*
Name / Year	Alba II / 1989
Name / Year	Aghios Rafael / 1991
Name / Year	Oriental Lady / 1996
Scrapped	Alang (India) - 2001

Spanish version

With the contribution of Javier Careaga Basarrate, who supplied part of data tables.