On this photograph is one of the "Valerianos" at Gijón, but unable to determine which of them. With this name were known thirteen ships having been designed by the naval architect Valeriano González Puertas, that were built in three different Gijón's shipyards.


General specificacions

Dead weight	Around 525	MT
Gross register	Close to 400	GRT
Lenght	48.9	meters
Breadth	8.0	meters
Depth	3.4	meters
Propulsion	Reciprocating triple expansion

When they were built the boilers consumed coal. Later some, possibly all, were modified to burn fuel oil.


      The full list is shown below, broken down by shipyard, year of construction and end, and the reason for this. Some of these ships has a very long life, but one was lost before being operational. It was the case of Pedro de Igual, which ran aground when she was being towed from Gijón to Santander for putting on the machine there. These machines were built in Santander by the Viuda de Martín Martín workshop.

Astilleros José Fernández Montes
Aries	1946	Sunk	1977
Leo	1947	Scrapped	¿1987?
Ana Rosa	1948	Sunk	1980
Borja	1949	Scrapped	1973
Pedro de Igual	1950	Grounded and lost	1950
Duque del Infantado	1951	Scrapped	1979
Astilleros Gervasio Riera
Tercio San Miguel	1946	Grounded and scrapped	1978
Tercio Montejurra	1947	Sunk	1987
Oro	1947	Grounded and lost	1957
Mina Mary	1948	Sunk	1961
Plata	1948	Abandoned at Nouadhibou	1987
Juliana Constructora Gijonesa
Jose Pumariño	1947	Sunk	1955
Manuel Salvadores	1948	Scrapped	1997

Some of them changed their name. Even one carried the name left free by one sister ship that had changed her name earlier. In the following list can be seen the new names and the year of change.

Tercio Montejurra		1969	Ligia Romero
Plata		1981	Belata
Jose Pumariño		1948	Micaela
Manuel Salvadores		1952	Jose Pumariño		1961	Artrama

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