Santa Isabel (ship, 1915)
The Santa Isabel was a passenger and cargo ship that sank in February 1921, killing 254 people.
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The 88.85 m long and 12.20 wide steamship was delivered in February 1916 by the Sociedad Española de Construcción Naval (SECN) shipyard in Matagorda. The client was the shipping company Compañía Transatlántica Española from Barcelona.
At the beginning of February 1921, the Santa Isabel was on a journey from Bilbao to Cádiz with general cargo and passengers. After a ship collision in the early morning hours of January 2, 1921, the ship sank in the Ría de Arousa bay near the island of Isla de Sálvora in Galicia . Of the 240 passengers and 70 crew members, only 56 were rescued.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Sara Vila: Unfounded (but not wreckless) Claims 90 years after Galician sea disaster . In: El País . March 8, 2011, ISSN 1134-6582 ( elpais.com [accessed September 7, 2019]).
- ↑ Wrecksite.eu
- ↑ memorial plaque
- ↑ Serious ship accident in the Atlantic Ocean , in: Vossische Zeitung , January 4, 1921, accessed on November 24, 2017.
- ^ Supplement to the report of the ship accident of the Santa Isabel , in: Vossische Zeitung , January 5, 1921; Retrieved November 25, 2017.
