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José María Martínez-Hidalgo Y Terán
José María Martínez-Hidalgo y Terán (December 11, 1913, Sama de Langreo - February 7, 2005, Barcelona) was a Spanish sailor. He began his career in the Merchant Navy, later became an officer of the Spanish Navy and finally, in 1958, was appointed director of the Maritime Museum of Barcelona, a position he held until his retirement in 1983. Biography and professional background While in his role of director of the Maritime Museum of Barcelona and as a personal collaboration, José Maria Martínez-Hidalgo compiled, in a ten years work, all the documentation that he could gather from the , publishing it in his book "." Thanks to all this data, the Maritime Museum of Barcelona began the construction of a replica in 1965, being finished in 1971, just for celebration of the centenary of the construction of the original galley, that was built in the same shipyard where the museum is located nowadays, and served as the flagship of the Juan of Austria admiral of the Holy League agains ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sama De Langreo
Sama is the second largest parish of the city of Langreo / Llangréu, Asturies, in the north of Spain. It had 8,500 inhabitants within the urban area and 300 outside of it.The parish and district occupy an area of . In the past, Sama was an important commercial and mining zone. History Sama de Langreo become a parish in 1887 when it was separated from the Ciañu parish. The region where the current parish stands was a fertile plot of land next to the Nalón river, including structures such as the 15th century " Casa de los Notarios," demolished in 2019. There was a chapel dedicated to Saint John in which Aurelio was crowned king of Asturias in 768. In the 19th century, administrative work began to take place in Sama, which was growing in population due to a coal mining boom. During the Third Carlist War, the Town Hall, containing the Langreo historical archive, was destroyed. In the mid-19th century, the large Duro Felguera steelworks was built in the neighbouring town of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pinta (ship)
A ship built in medieval Spain in 1441, known as ''La Pinta'' ( Spanish for ''The Painted One'', ''The Look'', or ''The Spotted One'') was the fastest of the three Spanish ships used by Christopher Columbus in his first transatlantic voyage in 1492. The New World was first sighted by Rodrigo de Triana aboard ''La Pinta'' on 12 October 1492. The owner of ''La Pinta'' was Cristóbal Quintero. The Quintero brothers were ship owners from Palos. The owner of the ship allowed Martín Alonso Pinzón to take over the ship so he could keep an eye on her. ''La Pinta'' was a caravel-type vessel. By tradition, Spanish ships were named after saints and usually given nicknames. Thus, ''La Pinta'', like ''La Niña'', was not the ship's actual name; ''La Niña's'' actual name was the ''Santa Clara''. The '' Santa María'''s original nickname was ''La Gallega''. The actual original name of ''La Pinta'' is unknown. The origin of the ship is disputed but is believed to have been built in Spain i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spanish Sailors
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2005 Deaths
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1913 Births
Events January * January – Joseph Stalin travels to Vienna to research his ''Marxism and the National Question''. This means that, during this month, Stalin, Hitler, Trotsky and Tito are all living in the city. * January 3 – First Balkan War: Greece completes its Battle of Chios (1912), capture of the eastern Aegean island of Chios, as the last Ottoman forces on the island surrender. * January 13 – Edward Carson founds the (first) Ulster Volunteers, Ulster Volunteer Force, by unifying several existing Ulster loyalism, loyalist militias to resist home rule for Ireland. * January 18 – First Balkan War: Battle of Lemnos (1913), Battle of Lemnos – Greek admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis forces the Turkish fleet to retreat to its base within the Dardanelles, from which it will not venture for the rest of the war. * January 23 – 1913 Ottoman coup d'état: Enver Pasha comes to power. February * February 1 – New York City's Grand Central Te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Real (1568)
(Spanish for "Royal") was a Spanish galley and the flagship of Don John of Austria in the Battle of Lepanto in 1571. Construction was built in Barcelona at the Royal Shipyard in 1568 and was the largest galley of its time. was usually the designation of the flagship in a particular Spanish fleet and was not necessarily the actual name of the ship. ("admiral") was the designation of the ship of the 2nd in command, and others with a specific command function were and . The galley was long and wide, had two masts and weighed 237 tons empty. It was equipped with three heavy and six light artillery pieces, was propelled by a total of 290 rowers, and, in addition, carried some 400 sailors and soldiers at Lepanto. 50 men were posted on the upper deck of the forecastle, 50 on the midship ramp, another 50 each along the sides at the bow, 50 each on the skiff and oven platforms, 50 on the firing steps along the sides near the stern, and 50 more on the stern platform behind the h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arenys De Mar Yacht Club (), municipality in the province of Teurel
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Arenys, Catalan for "sands (of a seasonal creek)", may refer to: * Arenys de Mar, municipality in the comarca of Maresme * Arenys de Munt, municipality in the comarca of Maresme See also * Arens de Lledó Arens is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Cody Arens (born 1993), American actor *Egmont Arens (1889–1966), American publisher * Henry M. Arens (1873–1963), American politician * Jan-Hein Arens (born 1974), Dutch painter * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Niña (ship)
LA most frequently refers to Los Angeles, the second most populous city in the United States of America. La, LA, or L.A. may also refer to: Arts and entertainment Music *La (musical note), or A, the sixth note *"L.A.", a song by Elliott Smith on ''Figure 8'' (album) * ''L.A.'' (EP), by Teddy Thompson *''L.A. (Light Album)'', a Beach Boys album * "L.A." (Neil Young song), 1973 *The La's, an English rock band *L.A. Reid, a prominent music producer *Yung L.A., a rapper *Lady A, an American country music trio * "L.A." (Amy Macdonald song), 2007 *"La", a song by Australian-Israeli singer-songwriter Old Man River *''La'', a Les Gordon album Other media * l(a, a poem by E. E. Cummings *La (Tarzan), fictional queen of the lost city of Opar (Tarzan) *''Lá'', later known as Lá Nua, an Irish language newspaper *La7, an Italian television channel *LucasArts, an American video game developer and publisher * Liber Annuus, academic journal Business, organizations, and government agenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santa María (ship)
''La Santa María de la Inmaculada Concepción'' ( ), or ''La Santa María'' (), originally ''La Gallega'' (), was the largest of the three small ships used by Christopher Columbus in his first expedition across the Atlantic Ocean in 1492, with the backing of the Spanish monarchs. Her master and owner was Juan de la Cosa. History ''Santa María'' was built in Pontevedra, Galicia. ''Santa María'' was a medium-sized commercial nau or carrack, about long on deck, and according to Juan Escalante de Mendoza in 1575, ''Santa María'' was "''very little larger than'' 100 toneladas" (about 100 tons, or tuns) burthen, or burden, and was used as the flagship for the expedition. ''Santa María'' had a single deck and three small masts. The other ships of the Columbus expedition were the smaller caravel-type ships ''Santa Clara''; one particular ship sailed for 46 years and was remembered as ''La Niña'' ("''The Girl''"), and ''La Pinta'' ("''The Painted''"). All these ships w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barcelona
Barcelona ( ; ; ) is a city on the northeastern coast of Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second-most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within city limits,Barcelona: Población por municipios y sexo – Instituto Nacional de Estadística. (National Statistics Institute) its urban area extends to numerous neighbouring municipalities within the province of Barcelona and is home to around 5.3 million people, making it the fifth most populous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gulf Of Corinth
The Gulf of Corinth or the Corinthian Gulf (, ) is a deep inlet of the Ionian Sea, separating the Peloponnese from western mainland Greece. It is bounded in the east by the Isthmus of Corinth which includes the shipping-designed Corinth Canal and in the west by the Rion Strait which widens into the shorter Gulf of Patras (part of the Ionian Sea) and of which the narrowest point is crossed since 2004 by the Rio–Antirrio bridge. The gulf is bordered by the large administrative divisions (regional units): Aetolia-Acarnania and Phocis in the north, Boeotia in the northeast, Attica in the east, Corinthia in the southeast and south and Achaea in the southwest. The tectonic movement across the gulf is comparable to parts of Iceland and Turkey, growing by per year. In the Middle Ages, the gulf was known as the Gulf of Lepanto (the Italian form of Naupactus). Shipping routes between the Greek commercial port Piraeus (further away from ultimate destinations but larger and better connec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle Of Lepanto
The Battle of Lepanto was a naval warfare, naval engagement that took place on 7 October 1571 when a fleet of the Holy League (1571), Holy League, a coalition of Catholic states arranged by Pope Pius V, inflicted a major defeat on the fleet of the Ottoman Empire in the Gulf of Patras. The Ottoman forces were sailing westward from their naval station in Naupactus, Lepanto (the Venetian language, Venetian name of ancient Naupactus – Greek , Turkish language, Turkish ) when they met the fleet of the Holy League which was sailing east from Messina, Italy, Messina, Sicily. Lepanto marks the last major engagement in the Western world to be fought almost entirely between rowing vessels, namely the galleys and galleasses, which were the direct descendants of ancient trireme warships. The battle was in essence an "infantry battle on floating platforms".William Stevens, ''History of Sea Power'' (1920),p. 83 It was the Largest naval battle in history, largest naval battle in Western histo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
