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Friday 23 June 2023

Spanish heavy cruiser Baleares 1928-1938

Original postcard Chocolate La Estrella

Part of Canarias-class heavy cruisers preceded by Almirante Cervera-class. Laid down by Sociedad Española de Construcción Naval (SCNE), Ferrol, Spain on 15 August 1928, launched on 20 April 1932, commissioned on 28 December 1936 and sunk on 6 March 1938 in the Battle of Cape Palos against Spanish Republican destroyers.

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