Compañía Trasatlántica Española
Cristobal Colon
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Built in 1927 was 10,883 GRT with 14,400 MT displacement. She was in the line North Spain - Cuba - Mexico - New York, like the "Habana" ex-"Alfonso XIII", until grounded and lost off-Bermuda on 16 October 1936.
Juan Sebastian Elcano
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The "Juan Sebastian Elcano" was the first of a three vessels serie, being the other two the "Marques de Comillas" and the "Magallanes". She was launched by Sociedad Española de Construcción Naval at Sestao on November 1926.
This ship was seized by the Soviet Union at Odessa on 1937, and became "Volga" in the Soviet Navy.
Marques de Comillas
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The "Marques de Comillas" was launched at Ferrol on March 1927. On 1961 caught a fire at shipyard Astano de Ferrol and due to the heavy damage and her age was scrapped on 1962.
The three ships were commissioned on 1928.
When new they had two funnels, which in the "Marques de Comillas" and "Magallanes" case was reduced to one around 1940, when they were transformed to modify their passanger capacity. In these photos can be seen with two funnels and after the modification.
Although sister ships their passanger capacity was different, and was around 145 passangers in First, 50 in Second and 40 in Third, with very different capacity in Emigrant because it was between 530 and 830 depending of the vessel. The emigrants were traveling in bunks in the tweendecks. Later they were converted to three class vessels: First, Second and Turist.
On this nice photo can be seen leaving a port wich I believe is La Habana.
Magallanes
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The "Magallanes" was launched at Matagorda on May 1927. After her commissioning on 1928, together with her sister ships, was sailing in the America lines till 1953 when was laid up at Bilbao waiting to be transformed, but on 1957 was sold to the scrappers.
These three ships main specifications were:
9,900 GRT Displacement 13,200 MT 6,200 TDW
Length: 145.13 mtr Beam: 17.14 mtr Depth: 9.9 mtr
Propulsion: 2 turbine groups Curtiss-Parsons with 8,300 HP which got them 15 knots. The steam was supplied from five boilers with 25 bar pressure and burning 80 MT of heavy fuel oil daily.
Part of the information has been extracted from the pages of Manuel García
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