Echevarrieta y Larrinaga

Echevarrieta y Larrinaga

Name	Shipyard / Year	DWT	GRT	Length	Breadth	Depth	Machine	H.P.	Bought	End / Sold to / Year
Bernabe	John Readhead & Sons / 1889	3,800	2,288	88.4	11.9	6.1	Triple exp.	1,147	1905	Sunk / 13-11-1915
Cosme	Richardson, Duck & Co. / 1890	3,700	2,523	90.5	12.2	5.8	Triple exp.	1,800	1905	S.A. de Navegación Palma / 1917
Isidoro	Craig, Taylor & Co. / 1897	3,250	2,044	82.6	12.4	5.3	Triple exp.	1.540	1905	Torpedoed by U-38/ 17-08-1915
Horacio	William Gray & Co. / 1888	3,600	2,318	88.4	11.6	6.2	Triple exp.	1,100	1905	S.A. de Navegación Palma / 1917
Rafael	John Readhead and Sons / 1890	3,517	2,340	90.4	12.0	5.4	Triple exp.	1,107	1907	Sunk / 21-12-1911
Miguel	Bowdler, Chaffer & Co. / 1872	1,000	816	61.0	8.6	5.1	Compound	470	1907	Cía. Santurzana de Navegación / 1909
Satur	E. Withy & Co. / 1891	4,130	2,958	95.8	12.3	6.4	Triple exp.	1,455	1908	Altos Hornos de Vizcaya / 1917
Manuel	Sir Raylton Dixon / 1895	3,600	2,419	89.8	12.6	5.4	Triple exp.	1,266	1908	Torpedoed by UB-38 / 16-01-1917
Nicolas	Sir Raylton Dixon / 1895	3,600	2,423	89.8	12.6	5.4	Triple exp.	1,095	1908	S.A. de Navegación Palma / 1917
Rafael	William Gray & Co. / 1894	4,200	2,734	93.3	13.1	5.6	Triple exp.	1,100	1912	S.A. de Navegación Palma / 1917
Miguel	London & Glasgow Co. / 1895	4,200	2,710	91.4	12.8	5.9	Triple exp.	1,286	1913	S.A. de Navegación Palma / 1917

Bernabe She was built in 1888 in the United Kingdom as the Aberfeldy, passing to the Spanish flag in 1914, since she was bought in 1905 but she she was operated from that year until 1908 with the Honduran flag and from 1908 to 1914 with the Uruguayan flag.
She sank on November 13, 1915 due to a strong storm. She was making a trip from Cardiff (United Kingdom) to Bordeaux (France) with coal, and was at the entrance to the Gironde River estuary, which would take her to Bordeaux, her destination. A wave swept away the quarters that closed hold 2, flooding the hold rapidly and bringing the ship to a halt. The ship tried to anchor, as she was very close to the coast, but she dragged the anchor and drifted to the beach, running aground. The force of the waves began to destroy the ship, taking the lifeboats with it. Thirteen crew members swam and wore life jackets and managed to reach the coast, which was about 200 metres away, but the remaining eleven died.

Shipyard / Year	John Readhead - South Shields / 1889
Name	*Aberfeldy*
Dead weight	3,800	MT
Gross register	2,288	GRT
Length	88.4	mtr
Breadth	11.9	mtr
Depth	6.1	mtr
Propulsion	Reciprocating triple expansion
Power	1,147	H.P.
Speed	8	knots
Bought	1905	to
Owner	Doughty Shipping Co. Ltd.
Name	*Aberfeldy*
Wrecked	13/11/1915 - Estuary Río Gironda

Cosme

In 1943 at drydock, as SAC 5.

Shipyard / Year	Richardson, Duck & Co. / 1890
Name	*Darlington*
Dead weight	3,700	MT
Gross register	2,523	GRT
Length	90.5	mtr
Breadth	12.2	mtr
Depth	5.8	mtr
Propulsion	Reciprocating triple expansion
Power	1,475	H.P.
Speed	8.5	knots
Bought	1905	to
Owner	Commercial Steamship Co. Ltd.
Name	*Darlington*
Sold	1917	to
Owner	S.A. de Navegación Palma / 1917
Name	*Cosme*
Owner / Year	S.A. de Navegación Izarra / 1917
Name	*Azpeitia*
Owner / Year	Sociedad Naviera Elcano / 1922
Name	*Azpeitia*
Owner / Year	Juan Bautista Borés / 1923
Name	*Dimarts*
Owner / Year	TAC / 1927
Name	*SAC 5*
Name 1949	*SAC Sevilla*
Scrapped	Barcelona - 1965

Aft hold view at same drydock

Isidoro

Shipyard / Year	Craig, Taylor & Co. / 1897
Name	*Admiral Ihlen*
Owner / Year	Compañía del Vapor Menditarra / 1899
Name	*Menditarra*
Dead weight	3,250	MT
Gross register	2,044	GRT
Length	82.6	mtr
Breadth	12.4	mtr
Depth	5.3	mtr
Propulsion	Reciprocating triple expansion
Power	1,540	H.P.
Bought	1905	to
Owner	Compañía del Vapor Menditarra
Name	*Menditarra*
Sunk	17/08/1915 - Gunfire by U-38

At La Rochelle

Horacio Horacio

Aitor (Santa Fé - Argentina) - 15/April/1915

Shipyard / Year	William Gray - West Hartlepool / 1888
Name	*Evelyn*
Dead weight	3,600	MT
Gross register	2,318	GRT
Length	88.4	mtr
Breadth	11.6	mtr
Depth	6.2	mtr
Propulsion	Reciprocating triple expansion
Power	1,110	H.P.
Speed	8	knots
Bought	1905	to
Owner	T. Appleby and Company
Name	*Evelyn*
Sold	1917	to
Owner	Sociedad Anónima de Navegación Palma
Name	*Horacio*
Owner / Year	Compañía de Navegación Bengolea / 1918
Name	*Arantzazu*
Owner / Year	Compañía Euzkera de Navegación / 1923
Name	*Arantzazu*
Owner / Year	Zabala, Goitia y Compañía, S. en C. / 1930
Name	*Arantzazu*
Owner / Year	Compañía Naviera Basoa / 1935
Name	*Iñake*
Wrecked	13/04/1949 - Close to Suances

Rafael She was built in 1890 in the United Kingdom as Constantinos Stathatos for a Greek shipping company that registered her in Ithaca. When bought she was registered under the flag of Uruguay, but never flew the Spanish flag as she sank before all its ships were re-flagged, which took place between 1913 and 1915. She sank on 21/December/1911 at the entrance to the Gironde estuary due to a strong storm that broke the rudder guards. It was impossible to repair them and the unsteered ship ran aground on a patch of sand and stones, where she was destroyed by the incoming sea.

Shipyard / Year	John Readhead - South Shields / 1890
Name	*Constantinos Stathatos*
Name / Year	Beechburn / 1904
Dead weight	3,517	MT
Gross register	2,340	GRT
Length	90.4	mtr
Breadth	12.0	mtr
Depth	5.4	mtr
Propulsion	Reciprocating triple expansion
Power	1,107	H.P.
Speed	8	knots
Bought	1907	to
Owner	Beechburn Steamship Company Limited
Name	*Beechburn*
Wrecked	21/12/1911 - Estuary Río Gironda

Miguel

Shipyard / Year	Bowdler, Chaffer & Co. / 1872
Name	*Moratin*
Owner / Year	Miguel Sáenz y Compañía / 1874
Name	*Moratin*
Owner / Year	La Bética Empresa de Nav. a Vapor / 1892
Name	*Moratin*
Owner / Year	Viuda de Sebastián A. Gómez / 1907
Name	*Moratin*
Dead weight	1,000	MT
Gross register	816	GRT
Length	61.0	mtr
Breadth	8.6	mtr
Depth	5.1	mtr
Propulsion	Reciprocating compound
Power	470	H.P.
Bought	1907	to
Owner	Viuda de Sebastián A. Gómez
Sold	1909	to
Owner	Compañía Santurzana de Navegación
Name	*Ramonita*
Owner / Year	Compañía Marítima Española / 1921
Name	*Monte Igueldo*
Scrapped	1926

At Barcelona, already as Ramonita.

Satur

Shipyard / Year	E. Withy & Company / 1891
Name	*Wildcroft*
Dead weight	4,130	MT
Gross register	2,958	GRT
Length	95.8	mtr
Breadth	12.4	mtr
Depth	6.4	mtr
Propulsion	Reciprocating triple expansion
Power	1.455	H.P.
Bought	1908	to
Owner	Wildcroft Steamship Co. Ltd.
Name	*Wildcroft*
Sold	1916	to
Owner	Altos Hornos de Vizcaya
Owner	*Victor de Chavarri*
22/11/1918 - Torpedoed by the submarine UB-31

Manuel Shet was built in 1895 by Sir Raylton Dixon & Company as the Normandy. When she was bought in 1908 by Echevarrieta and Larrinaga, she was registered in Uruguay, and passed to the Spanish flag in 1913. On 14/January/1917, near Ushant (France), she was stopped by the German submarine UB-38, which after checking the documentation ordered her to be abandoned and placed explosives to sink her. The 24 crew members were picked up by the Swedish ship Karl, which transported them to La Coruña. She was sailing from Bilbao to Glasgow with a cargo of copper ore.

Shipyard / Year	Sir Raylton Dixon - Middlesbrough / 1895
Name	*Normandy*
Dead weight	3,600	MT
Gross register	2,419	GRT
Length	89.8	mtr
Breadth	12.6	mtr
Depth	5.4	mtr
Propulsion	Reciprocating triple expansion
Power	1,266	H.P.
Bought	1908	to
Owner	D. MacIver, Sons & Company Ltd.
Name	*Normandy*
Sunk	16/01/1917 - By the submarine UB-38

Nicolas Sendeja - El Cantábrico - 23/03/1928

As Sendeja aground at Santander She was built in 1895 by Sir Raylton Dixon & Company as Normandy. When she was bought in 1908 by Echevarrieta and Larrinaga was registered in Uruguay, passing to the Spanish flag in 1913. She was another of the ships that in 1917 passed to Sociedad Anónima de Navegación Palma, being sold in 1918 to Compañía Marítima Bilbao, which renamed her Sendeja.

Shipyard / Year	Sir Raylton Dixon - Middlesbrough / 1895
Name	*Lombardy*
Dead weight	3,600	MT
Gross register	2,423	GRT
Length	89.8	mtr
Breadth	12.6	mtr
Depth	5.4	mtr
Propulsion	Reciprocating triple expansion
Power	1,266	H.P.
Bought	1908	to
Owner	D. MacIver, Sons & Company Ltd.
Name	*Lombardy*
Sold	1917	to
Owner	Sociedad Anónima de Navegación Palma
Name	*Nicolas*
Owner / Year	Compañía Marítima Bilbao / 1918
Name	*Sendeja*
Wrecked	03/02/1928 - Santander Bay
Scrapped	Bilbao - 1928

El Cantábrico - 4/February/1928 Sendeja - El Cantábrico - 23/03/1928

On the morning of 02/February/1928, sailing in ballast from Bilbao to Gijón, she arrived in Santander to take shelter from a strong storm. Once inside the bay, she anchored near the Isla de la Horadada, interfering with traffic entering and leaving the port, notifying that she would only remain there for a few hours. On the morning of the 3rd, since she was still there, she was told that she had to change to the Anchorage of the Martyrs, located further inside the bay. When carrying out the maneuver, due to strong gusts of wind and possibly low power of the machine, she ran aground on the Playa del Puntal. The attempts to refloat her, with the help of the tugs Triton and Jaureguizar, were unsuccessful. As the days went by and the sea conditions increased, the ship was getting worse and worse. The ship was practically considered lost, and the insurers had to pay 12,000 pounds sterling to the shipowner, but the Port Pilot Indalecio Santos proposed refloating her for 3,000 pounds. The insurers accepted this, and with the personnel he hired he prepared a system that made the ship come out of the stranding, pulling the ropes that had been made firm to put her in position, and later with his own machine. All this is described in the article published in El Diario Montañés in 2018.
She was towed for repairs to the Euskalduna shipyard in Bilbao, but once the damage was recognized, it was decided to scrap her. Sendeja - El Cantábrico - 23/03/1928

El Cantábrico - 23/March/1928 Sendeja - El Cantábrico - 23/03/1928

Rafael Achuri por T. Diedrich

As Achuri

Shipyard / Year	William Gray and Company / 1894
Name	*Garton*
Dead weight	4,200	MT
Gross register	2,734	GRT
Length	93.3	mtr
Breadth	13.1	mtr
Depth	5.6	mtr
Propulsion	Reciprocating triple expansion
Power	1,100	H.P.
Bought	1912	to
Owner	Deddington Steam Ship Co.
Name	*Garton*
Sold	1917	to
Owner	Sociedad Anónima de Navegación Palma
Name	*Rafael*
Owner / Year	Compañía Marítima Bilbao / 1918
Name	*Achuri*
Owner / Year	José Agustín Mutiozábal / 1928
Name	*Achuri*
Scrapped	San Esteban de Pravia / 1963

Miguel She was built in 1895 as Vimeira, passing to Spanish flag in 1914 when she was bought by Echevarrieta y Larrinaga and being renamed as Miguel, the second with that name. In 1917 she was sold, along with four other ships of the company, to Sociedad Anónima de Navegación Palma, changing her name to Donostia, which she kept when she was purchased in 1918 by Sociedad Anónima de Navegación Izarra and in 1920 by Sociedad Naviera Elcano, from whom she was acquired in 1924. She was scrapped in 1935.

Shipyard / Year	London & Glasgow - Govan / 1895
Name	*Vimeira*
Dead weight	4,200	MT
Gross register	2,710	GRT
Length	91.4	mtr
Breadth	12.8	mtr
Depth	5.9	mtr
Propulsion	Reciprocating triple expansion
Power	1,286	H.P.
Bought	1913	to
Owner	Gow, Harrison & Company
Name	*Vimeira*
Sold	1917	to
Owner	Sociedad Anónima de Navegación Palma
Name	*Miguel*
Owner / Year	Cía. Anónima de Navegación Izarra / 1918
Name	*Donostia*
Owner / Year	Sociedad Naviera Elcano / 1920
Name	*Donostia*
Owner / Year	Francisco García Fernández / 1922
Name	Magdalena R. de García
Scrapped	Bilbao - 1935

Agadir Agadir - Collection L. Santa Olaya

This vessel was the number 6 in a serie of six sister ships built by Echevarrieta y Larrinaga own shipyard, at Cádiz.

Shipyard / Year	Echevarrieta y Larrinaga / 1920
Dead weight	685	MT
Gross register	567	GRT
Length	51.7	mtr
Breadth	7.8	mtr
Depth	3.2	mtr
Propulsion	Reciprocating triple expansion
Power	425	H.P.
Sold	1924	to
Owner	Soc. Catalana de Gas y Electricidad
Name	Agadir
Foundered	08/10/1934 - Aviles entrance

ABC - 31/October/1934 Agadir - Collection L. Santa Olaya

La Vanguardia - 20/October/1935

Gadir Gadir - Collection Aserrín

These photos show the Gadir launching on 03/November/1918, built with the yard number 1. Gadir - Collection Aserrín

Shipyard / Year	Echevarrieta y Larrinaga / 1919
Dead weight	682	MT
Gross register	538	GRT
Length	51.7	mtr
Breadth	7.8	mtr
Depth	3.2	mtr
Propulsion	Reciprocating triple expansion
Power	425	H.P.
Sold	1919	to
Owner	Cía. Vasco Valenciana de Navegación
Name	*Gadir*
Owner / Year	Compañía Marítima Canaria / 1927
Name	*Gadir*
Owner / Year	Álvaro Rodríguez López / 1934
Name	*Santa Ursula*
Name 1935	*San Juan II*
Owner / Year	Adolfo Ramírez Escudero / 1932
Name	San Juan II
Owner / Year	Transcomar / 1941
Name	*San Juan II*
Name / Year	Feodosia / 1943
Name / Year	Suzanne / 1943
Torpedoed	14/07/1944 - Livadia Bay by Vivid

All them, except the Agadir, were sold to Compañía Vasco Valenciana de Navegación shortly after finished. Gadir - Collection Aserrín

This table shows the six sister ships listed by yard number and their data.

Name	Launched	Finished	Sold	End
Gadir	11/1918	03/1919	08/04/1919	14/07/1944 - Torpedoed
Nadir	01/1919	05/1919	20/11/1919	12/04/1943 - Sunk
Amir	05/1919	08/1919	20/11/1919	06/06/1944 - Torpedoed
Ophir	06/1919	11/1919	28/01/1920	1968 - Scrapped
Menhir	08/1919	02/1920	23/03/1920	28/05/1930 - Wrecked
Agadir	09/1919	02/1920	08/09/1924	08/10/1934 - Sunk

Ophir

Shipyard / Year	Echevarrieta y Larrinaga / 1920
Dead weight	665	MT
Gross register	549	GRT
Length	51.7	mtr
Breadth	7.8	mtr
Depth	3.2	mtr
Propulsion	Reciprocating triple expansion
Power	425	H.P.
Sold	1920	to
Owner	Cía. Vasco Valenciana de Navegación
Name	*Ophir*
Owner / Year	Compañía Trasmediterránea / 1925
Name	*Ophir*
Owner / Year	CAMPSA / 1930
Name	*Ophir*
Owner / Year	José Navarro Francés / 1965
Name	*Ophir*
Scrapped	1968

At Mahón, with the Trasmediterránea funnel. Ophir - Collection J. Pérez-Oleaga

On this already with the CAMPSA funnel, but not yet converted to tanker.

Tiflis Campestre - Collection J. Pérez-Oleaga

As Campestre

Shipyard / Year	Armstrong Whitworth & Co. / 1900
Name	Tiflis
Dead weight	4,443	MT
Gross register	3,030	GRT
Length	93.0	mtr
Breadth	12.2	mtr
Depth	7.7	mtr
Propulsion	Reciprocating triple expansion
Power	1,400	H.P.
Bought	1920	to
Owner	Lane and Mac Andrew Ltd.
Name	Tiflis
Sold	1920	to
Owner	Cía. Vasco Valenciana de Navegación
Name	Tiflis
Owner / Year	CAMPSA / 1932
Name	*Campestre*
Owner / Year	CEPSA / 1957
Name	*Monteleon*
Explosion	19/03/1966 - Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Scrapped	Avilés - 1966

As Monteleon

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