SS Cantabria

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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.

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Alfonso Perez; prison ship Alfonso Perez
prison ship, cargo shipSpanish Republican Navy

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  • SS Cantabria
    prison ship Alfonso Perez
1918-08-19T00:00:00Z
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ship launching
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1915-01-19T00:00:00Z
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1938-11-02T00:00:00Z
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The Wreck of the CantabriaThe Wreck of the Cantabria
    TypeSubtypeDateDescriptionNotesSource
    eventarmed conflict1381Battle of North WalshambattleWikidata
    eventarmed conflict1915Zeppelin air raid on Norfolk 19-20 January 1915German Empire, Peter Strasser, Horst Julius Freiherr Treusch von Buttlar-Brandenfels, military operation, airstrikeWikidata
    eventarmed conflict1938Sinking of the SS CantabriaFrancoist Spain, Second Spanish Republic, naval battleWikidata
    objectwatercraftSS Cantabriaprison ship, cargo shipWikidata
    sitecastle1470Baconsthorpe Castlefortified manor house, English Heritage, archaeological siteWikidata
    sitemuseumMuckleburgh Collectionmilitary museumWikidata
    siteshipwreckHMS C11C-class submarine, shipwreck, submarineWikidata
    siteshipwreckHMT Forcenaval trawler, shipwreckWikidata
    siteshipwreck1918HMS VortigernV and W-class destroyer, shipwreck, destroyerWikidata
    siteshipwreck1933HMT Agatenaval trawler, fishing vessel, shipwreckWikidata
    commonsimageThe Wreck of the Cantabria Commons