Vapores de Angel Pérez







        This company was owned by the Grupo Perez.


Angel B. Perez

Shipyard / Year	Osbourne Graham & Co. / 1892
Dead weight	3,800	MT
Gross register	2,415	GRT
Length	88.5	mtr
Breadth	11.6	mtr
Depth	6.1	mtr
Propulsion	Reciprocating triple expansion
Power	1,150	H.P.
Owner (1st)	Steamship Miramar Co.
Name	Miramar
Bought	1909
Sold	1919	to
Owner	Carlos Gutiérrez Latorre
Renamed	Valverde
Sold	1923	to
Owner	Compañía Naviera Bidasoa
Renamed	Urumea
Sunk	Collision / 1924

Carolina E. de Perez

Shipyard / Year	Ropner and Sons / 1896
Dead weight	3,911	MT
Gross register	2,696	GRT
Length	91.4	mtr
Breadth	13.1	mtr
Depth	5.0	mtr
Propulsion	Reciprocating triple expansion
Power	1,496	H.P.
Owner (1st)	J.A. Wood and Co.
Name	Suningdale
Bought	1911
Sold	1927	to
Owner	Compañía Naviera Amaya
Renamed	Zabalari
Sold	1930	to
Owner	Joaquín Velasco Martín
Renamed	Mina Carrio
Scrapped	Milford Haven / 1937

Emilia S. de Perez

Shipyard / Year	Gourlay Bros / 1893
Dead weight	5,379	MT
Gross register	3,997
Length	110.6	mtr
Breadth	13.7	mtr
Depth	8.1	mtr
Propulsion	Reciprocating triple expansion
Power	1,640	H.P.
Owner (1st)	R.A. Mudie and Sons
Name	Matin
Bought	1913
Scrapped	Blyth / 1931

Alfonso Perez         In the photo the ship was at anchor at Sagua la Grande (Cuba) on 1919. On November 1938 she was sunk by the nacionalist auxiliary cruise Nadir, name given as camouflage to the Ciudad de Valencia.

Shipyard / Year	J. Coughland and Sons / 1919
Dead weight	8,800	MT
Gross register	5,743
Length	125.1	mtr
Breadth	16.5	mtr
Depth	8.4	mtr
Propulsion	Steam turbines
Power	2,650	H.P.
Owner (1st)	Imperial Munitions Board
Name	War Chief
Bought	1919
Sunk	Shell fired / 1938

With her original look Modified, with the midship mast removed and the other two lengthened.


Narrative about the Cantabria sinking
This narrative has been written by María del Mar Argüelles, granddaughter of the ship's Master.

Photo of the Master, his family and rescuers

Rescue of the Master and his family
History taken from a book relating salvages by British lifeboats.


    

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