Spanish gunboat El Cano captured American collier Saranac according to the Dutch newspaper The newspaper Middelburgsche Courant dated Friday 29 April 1898

An item reported that the Spanish gunboat El Cano brought the American collier Saranac into Manila.(1)

Note

1. The USA and Spain were between 25 April and 12 August 1898 involved in the Spanish-American War. The formal peace treaty was not earlier signed as on 10 December and ratified by the US Senate on 6 February of the next year. Cuba was then still occupied by the USA and becoming finally independent on 20 May 1902.