At Santander downtown, berthed at Muelle de Calderón, which at that time was a commercial pier.           This ship was built by Astilleros Echevarrieta y Larrinaga, at Cádiz. She was part of the Serie A of the Empresa Nacional Elcano, being the only one in the serie along with the Villanueva, which was built by said shipyard. They followed the same paths since both were bareboat chartered to Hispano Cubana de Navegación, which used them between 1957 and 1959 on a line linking the southern United States and Cuba, which had to be suspended when the Castro revolution triumphed. They were then sold to Ybarra y Cía., which renamed them Cabo del Pinar and Cabo Peñas. Both were scrapped in 1970, the first at San Carlos de la Rápita and the second at Bilbao.

Shipyard / Year	Echevarrieta y Larrinaga / 1948
Dead weight	2,892	MT
Gross register	2,544	GRT
Lenght	89.6	mtr
Breadth	13.2	mtr
Depth	7.6	mtr
Propulsion	Reciprocating quadruple expansion
Maker	Christiansen & Meyer
Power	1,800	H.P.
Boilers	La Mont -- 16 kg/cm2 - 350ºC
Chartered	1957	from
Owner	Empresa Nacional Elcano
Name	Villafranca
Redelivered	1959
Sold	1959	to
Owner	Ybarra y Cía.
Name	Cabo del Pinar
Scrapped	San Carlos de la Rápita / 1970

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