Steamship "MALLORCA", Compañía Trasmediterránea

Vapor MALLORCA
Compañía Trasmediterránea

Painting by Guillermo González de Aledo (1923-2000).

The steamship Mallorca, the fourth and last ship with this name, was built at the Odero shipyard in Sestri Levante (Italy) in 1914, commissioned by the Isleña Marítima company. She measured 90.60 meters in length, 11.76 in width, 8.10 in depth and draft 5.8 meters. Its displacement was 3,850 tons and it had 2,204 gross register and 1,198 net register, its maximum load being 955 tons. She was equipped with a triple expansion steam engine with four boilers and 12 furnaces. Her maximum speed was about 17 knots. She arrived for the first time at the port of Palma de Mallorca on 3 December 1914, but until the summer of 1915 she was not transferred to Barcelona, ​​where she was laundered before returning to Palma, being then assigned to the Palma-Barcelona line. After the First World War it remained in the hands of the Trasmediterránea Company. In the early 1930s she was shifted to secondary duty as a reserve ship. When the Spanish Civil War broke out, she was assigned to the navy of the rebel side as an auxiliary ship and transferred to La Spezia to arm her as an auxiliary cruiser: she was fitted with a 120 mm cannon, another anti-aircraft gun, 76mm. and two 13 mm machine guns. He was then assigned to the naval base of Palma, and participated in various actions (transporting troops and war supplies and, sometimes, as a surveillance and repression unit for ships transporting weapons and supplies for the government of the Republic). In April 1937, with two other ships, she carried out the transfer of a large contingent of troops from Palma to Cádiz. At the end of the war she took part in the conquest of Menorca by the national troops, as a troop transport. After the war she was returned to the Trasmediterránea, and she was initially moved to the port of Cádiz, where she underwent extensive repair and renovation. She returned to Palma and was assigned to the Barcelona, ​​Valencia and Alicante routes. Between 1950 and 1953 it underwent another profound renovation in the Nuevo Vulcano workshops in Barcelona. She was decommissioned on 10 October 1973 and in 1974 she was acquired by a Valencian company, which sold it for scrapping on 11 December of the same year.

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