The School of Naval and Industrial Engineers (also Escuela de Peritos Navales de Ferrol and Escuela Universitaria de Ingeniería Técnica Naval de Ferrol) was created in 1963 by a Ministerial Order from Madrid, in accordance with a direct initiative of General

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. It was Franco's intention to be present for the official inauguration of the premises in 1966, but in the end this was not possible. The School kept always its dependency to the Ministry of Education and Science in

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, but when in 1990 the

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came to exist as a fully independent body fully detached from the

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, it was decided from

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that a full integration with the newly created institution was going to be a good idea. So, as a consequence of that decision, and from that date onwards the School has been part of the

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. It is now the Escuela Universitaria Politécnica Ferrol.

Historical background

In 1772, during the reign

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it was created in Ferrol the First Royal Academy of Naval Engineers in Spain. The purpose of this Royal Academy was to train the future members of the 1770 newly created Professional Body. About a century later, in the nineteenth century a totally modernized "school of Naval Engineers" was put in Ferrol as part of the general renewal of the

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after the abandonment of the entire sector after the naval disaster of Trafalgar in 1805 which saw the streets of Ferrol empty of life as empty were its shipyards. But by the mid nineteenth century things were looking very differently as the latest technological achievements of the English Industrial revolution were brought forward to the best shipyard in the country. So, in 1858 the

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of Ferrol were launching Spain's first steam propelled ship which it was the first iron-hulled too.

References

External links

History of the School of Naval and Industrial Engineers of Ferrol (in Spanish)

''Escuela Universitaria Politécnica Ferrol'' 23 January 2005
(in Spanish) via Web Archive
''Escuela Universitaria Politécnica Ferrol'' 27 August 2006
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Historical background

See also

References

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