Espana
Original postcard Chocolate La Estrella
An item referred to the magazine
le Yacht dated 20 April 1935 reporting that a budget for the protection of the Balearic Islands of 447 peseta’s was available and for the modernization of the battleships 32 million pesetas.(1) Other plans were to buy mines, fitting out naval bases and building 10-400 ton submarines, 12-800 ton destroyers, 8 mine layers, 12 small mine layers and 12 gunboats. In 1935 were the cruiser Baleares (2), destroyers Gravina, Jorge Juan, Escano, Ulloa and Ciscar and the submarine D 1 to be completed. Under the 1934 program were 2-.4000 ton mine layers and 2 submarines of the D to be built at Cartagena, Spain and a survey vessel at Cadiz, Spain.
Notes
1. The Alfonso XIII laid down on 23 February 1910, renamed Espana in 1931 and sunk in 1937 and the Jaime I laid down on 5 February 1921, heavily damaged in 1937 and broken up in 1941. Their sister ship Espana was wrecked in 1923 and partially broken up.
2. Of the Canarias-class heavy cruisers consisting of the Canarias, Baleares, preceded by the Almirante Cervera-class, laid down by SEGN, Ferrol, Spain on 15 August 1928, launched on 20 April 1931, commissioned on 28 December 1936 and sunk on 6 March 1938.
