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At the first, two in spanish, great!!

_Cabo Trafalgar, by Arturo Pérez Reverte. Ed. Alfaguara. Madrid, 2004. 265 pages. (Interesting)

_Trafalgar, by José Luis Corral. Ed. Edhasa. Barcelona, 2001. 499 Pages. (Quite interesting)

To talk about them. There are three types (first-rate, second-rate, and third-rate). I'm not sure, but I think that it depends of the number of guns. For example, a first-rate ship has more or less 100 guns, as Victory. And also three gundecks, and about 850 of crew. And, wich was the most powerfull...

Hello!,

Principe de Asturias?, I think.

A few pics of the acts in England:

Saludos Javier!

It´s terrible, the replica of Santísima Trinidad will be a restaurant, not a musseum

It´s not easy.

At the first, Lepanto, when de Liga Santa stopped the ottoman expansion and also Trafalgar.

Hola Javier!

A replic of a Santísima Trinidad...in our Spain? it´s fantastic. A replica is better than nothing. A great idea

Saludos Javier.

Hello! 21st October 2005 is the Bicentenary – the 200th anniversary – of the Battle of Trafalgar. On that day in 1805, a fleet of 27 British ships of the line, under the command of Vice Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson, met and fought a combined French and Spanish fleet of 33 ships off the coast of South...

Duke of York at Clydebank?, 28th january 1940?

Bueno, un acorazado inglés, a ver si tenemos suerte con el quién, donde y cuándo, je,je, buscaremos.

Hi, Von der Tann, please, visit the page:
http://www.german-navy.de/hochseeflotte , it´s fantastic.



Do you know what´s the battlecruiser of the picture?, je,je, sure.

Hi!! An interesting book about the history of battlecruisers, different classes, characteristics, proyects...but in spanish. Cruceros de Batalla (Battlecruisers), by Valentín Ruesga Herreros, ed by San Martín. Madrid, 1990, 68 pages. Germany: Von der Tann, Moltke, Goeben, Seydlitz, Derfflinger, Lütz...

Thank you very much, Ulrich!!. The coordinates, a new datum for me.

And now, a picture of the first Transylvania, sinking by u-63.

The HMS Transylvania before the war.


It´s very curious, but in 1917, one ship named Transylvania too, property of the same company (Anchor Line), was torpedoed and sunk by another u-boat.

Hello! I´m looking for any kind of information about hamburg-südamerikanische line, since 1871 to 1945. And, above all, of the merchant ship named Tenerife (1922-1939), sunk in denmark strait in an encounter with the armed merchant cruiser HMS Transylvania. This episode is very interesting, and also...