SS Cantabria (1919)

Cantabria sinking, photographed from
the Nationalist cruiser Nadir
History
Spain
Name
  • 1919: War Chief
  • 1919: Alfonso Pérez
  • 1937: Cantabria
Owner
Operator
Port of registrySantander
BuilderJ Coughlan & Sons, Vancouver
Launched19 August 1918
CompletedFebruary 1919
Identification
Fatesunk by gunfire, 2 November 1938
General characteristics
Tonnage5,743 GRT, 4,180 NRT
Length410.5 ft (125.1 m)
Beam54.1 ft (16.5 m)
Depth27.5 ft (8.4 m)
Decks2
Installed powerby 1926: 532 NHP
Propulsion
Speed8–10 knots (15–19 km/h)
Crew33

SS Cantabria was a Spanish-owned cargo steamship that was built in 1919 in Canada and sunk in 1938 in a naval action in the Spanish Civil War in the North Sea. She was built as War Chief, renamed Alfonso Pérez shortly after she was built, and renamed Cantabria during the Spanish Civil War.

Cantabria's wreck is off the coast of Norfolk, 12 miles ENE[2] of Cromer.[3] She was shelled by the Spanish Nationalist auxiliary cruiser Nadir.

  1. ^ Times Online Archive, Letter to the Editor, 5 November 1938
  2. ^ Tikus, p. 13
  3. ^ Jolly 2002[page needed]