Ron van Maanen
On Tuesday 24 July 1929 arrived a flotilla of Spanish warships at Amsterdam consisting of the flotilla leader Sánchez Barcáiztegui (1) and the destroyers Lazaga, Velasco and Alsedo. The first vessel was the largest with a measurement of 1,653 tons and a crew of 15 officers and 131 non commissioned officers and sailors and was anchored at the buoy near the Western entrance. The other three vessels each of 1,160 tons were anchored at the Westerdoksdijk each with a crew of 6 officers and 80 non commissioned officers and sailors. The flotilla was commanded by captain M. de Mir y del Rio who visited yesterday afternoon with his adjutant and the Spanish consul general the mayor of Amsterdam. Later in the afternoon he visited the naval under commander of Amsterdam captain lieutenant Rühl, the commander officer of the garrison wing-commander Rouffaer and harbourmaster Van de Poll. At 15.45 o’clock visited the Spanish ambassador count de Pradère the flagship followed by the Spanish consul.
The photo above approximately from 1930 can be found via the link http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archivo:Destructor_Sanchez_Barcaiztegui_(SB).jpg
Another newspaper Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant evening edition dated 23 July confirmed the visit. According to the item arrived the ships around 11.00 o’clock at Amsterdam. The evening edition of the Het Vaderland dated 4 July announced the visit of the flotilla for 23 until 26 July.
And finally published the newspaper De Sumatra Post dated 23 august 1930 a photo of the visit.
The newspaper Nieuwe Tilburgsche Courant dated 27 July published a photo of the commanding officer and some of his officers to Marken.
Note
1. The Sanchez Barcaiztegui was of the Churruca-class build according to the 1915 Navy Law using the basic design of the British Scott class flotilla leaders. She was launched at Cartagena on 24 July 1926, completed 1928, decommissioned on 1 July 1964 and a year later broken up. With a displacement of 1,536 (standard)-2,087 (full load) were her dimensions 320’ (between perpendiculars)-333’ (over all) x 31’9”x 10’6” or 97,52-101,50 x 9,68 x 3,20 metres. The 2-shaft Parsons geared turbines and 4 Yarrow boilers supplied 42,000 shp allowing a speed of 36 knots and she had an oil bunker capacity of 500 tons. The crew numbered 175 men and she was armed with 5x1-12cm guns, 1-7,6cm anti aircraft gun, 2x3-5,33cm anti aircraft guns and 2 depth charge throwers.
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