Ship "CIUDAD DE CÁDIZ". Compañía Trasantlántica Española. Postcard (1997)

CIUDAD DE CÁDIZ
Compañía Trasatlántica Española

Painting by M. Martí Barrionuevo.

Postcard published by Trajecte S.A. Nº 108, 1997.

The ship Ciudad de Cádiz was built in Renfrew (Scotland) in 1878 by order of Antonio López & Co (the Compañía Trasatlántica had not yet been created). It had a capacity for 417 passengers. Its length was 110.8 metres, and its width, 11.6 metres. It was destined for the lines to the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico, and later to the line to Spanish Guinea (now Equatorial Guinea), where it met its end: it sank on 10 October 1924 when sailing between San Carlos and Santa Isabel, today Luba and Malabo. During the war of 1898 between Spain and the United States it was armed as an auxiliary cruiser and integrated into the squadron destined for Cuba.

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STEAMBOAT "ISLA DE LUZÓN", Compañía Trasatlántica Española. Postcard (1997)

STEAMBOAT ISLA DE LUZÓN
Compañía Trasatlántica Española

Postcard published by Trajecte, S.A., 1997.
Painting by M. Martí Barrionuevo

The steamer Isla de Luzón was built in 1882 by Oswald Madaunt & Co. in Southampton (England) under the name Woolston. She caught fire and was abandoned at Messina (Sicily) on 29 February 1910. She was mixed cargo and passenger (she could accommodate 141 people plus crew). She was used by the Compañía General de Tabacos de Filipinas on the sea line between Barcelona and Manila through the Suez Canal. During the Spanish-Philippine War (1896-1898) she was incorporated by the Spanish navy under the command of Admiral Manuel de la Cámara y Livermoore.

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M/N "COVADONGA". Compañía Trasatlántica Española. Advertising postcard

M/N COVADONGA
Compañía Trasatlántica Española. 

Advertising postcard

The Covadonga was built at the Euskalduna Shipyard in Bilbao in 1953, launched under the name Monasterio de la Rábida and registered in Barcelona. She had capacity for 349 passengers. For twenty years she traveled the route between Spain and the United States, Cuba, Puerto Rico and Mexico. She was scrapped at Castellón de la Plana in April 1973.

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M/N "MONTSERRAT". Compañía Trasatlántica Española. Advertising postcard

M/N MONTSERRAT
Compañía Trasatlántica Española

Advertising postcard.

The Montserrat was built in Baltimore (USA) in 1945, as a cargo ship, for the United States Navy, and left the shipyard under the name Wooster Victory. Between 1948 and 1949 she was used to bring hundreds of Jewish refugees in China during WWII to the new state of Israel. In 1950 she was bought by the Sitmar Line and converted into a cargo and passenger ship with the name Castel Verde, and in 1957 she became property of the Compañía Trasatlántica Española, with the name Montserrat. The ship had capacity for 825 passengers, and served the line between Spain and Central America. She had several breakdowns, the most important being in August 1970, when she was making the trip from Venezuela to Tenerife, with 600 passengers, and broke down in the middle of the Atlantic. She had a temporary repair done in Curaçao, and then she continued doing the line. In February 1973 she completed her last voyage, disembarking 46 passengers from England in Vigo. Afterwards, she was taken to Castellón, where she was scrapped.

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M/N "VIRGINIA DE CHURRUCA". Compañía Transatlántica Española. Postcard

M/N VIRGINIA DE CHURRUCA
Compañía Transatlántica Española

Advertising postcard.

The Virginia de Churruca ship was built at the Unión Naval de Levante shipyard and put into service in May 1949 for the Elcano National Company under the name of Conde de Argelejo, and since its delivery it was leased to Compañía Trasatlántica Española, which acquired it in property in 1952 and renamed it Virginia de Churruca. In 1973 it was sold to the Compañía Transmediterránea, which changed its name to Isla de Formentera. She was scrapped in late 1978.

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M/S "SATRÚSTEGUI", Compañía Transatlántica Española. Advertising postcard

M/S SATRÚSTEGUI
Compañía Transatlántica Española

Advertising postcard published by the Compañía Transatlántica Española.

On December 14, 1946, the ship Explorador Iradier, commissioned by the Compañía Transmediterránea, was launched at the Elcano shipyard in Valencia. The ship made its first test trip to Palma de Mallorca on September 13, 1948, and in August 1952 it was acquired by the Compañía Transatlántica Española and renamed Satrústegui. She went on to cover the line between the Spanish ports in the Mediterranean and Venezuela, Central America and the Antilles, with calls at the port of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. In 1973, due to the loss results due to competition from the plane, the ship, with the new name Isla de Cabrera, was moored in the port of Barcelona, where on June 30 of the same year it suffered a serious fire, and on September 26, given the impossibility of repairing it, it was decided to scrap it, which was carried out in Castellón, where it had been towed.

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COMPAÑÍA TRANSATLÁNTICA ESPAÑOLA. "Cristóbal Colón"

COMPAÑÍA TRANSATLÁNTICA ESPAÑOLA (Barcelona). "Cristóbal Colón" [De 10.833 toneladas, construido en 1927. El 25 de octubre de 1936 embarrancó en las Bermudas y no pudo ser rescatado.] Tarjeta postal de Huecograbado Mombrú, Barcelona.

COMPAÑÍA TRANSATLÁNTICA ESPAÑOLA (Barcelona). "Cristóbal Colón" [De 10.833 tones, construït l'any 1927. El 25 d'octubre de 1936 embarrancà en les Bermudes i no va ser possible rescatar-lo.] Targeta postal de Huecograbado Mombrú, Barcelona.

COMPAÑÍA TRANSATLÁNTICA ESPAÑOLA (Barcelona, Spain). "Cristóbal Colón" [10.833 tons, built in 1927. The 25.10.1936 wrecked near Bermuda.] Postcard by Huecograbado Mombrú, Barcelona.

COMPAÑÍA TRANSATLÁNTICA ESPAÑOLA (Barcelone, Espagne). "Cristóbal Colón" [10.833 tonnes, construit en 1927. Le 25.10.1936 échouait aux îles Bermudes.] Carte postale de Huecograbado Mombrú, Barcelona.

COMPAÑÍA TRANSATLÁNTICA ESPAÑOLA (Barcellona, Spagna). "Cristóbal Colón" [10.833 tonnellate, costruito nel 1927. Il 25.10.1936 presso l'isola Bermuda.] Cartolina di Huecograbado Mombrú, Barcelona.

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