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Monday 19 July 2021

Mexico ordered building warships by Spanish shipyards according to the Dutch newspaper Algemeen Handelsblad morning edition dated 23 August 1933

An item reported that Mexico ordered the immediately building by Spanish shipyards of five transports and ten gunboats to be used against smugglers. The total measurement was not more as 5,000 tons and the building costs around 70.000.000 gold peseta’s.

The newspaper Het Vaderland evening edition dated 13 October supplied different details. Spanish yards were building two cruisers, four transport and 14 small gunboats all suitable for coast guard duties and to be completed in 1934 and to be commissioned immediately.