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May 10, 2009, at 10:24 am
Hello,
When in the summer of 2,002, two friends of Malaga (Spain), decided to create this Submarine C3′s Web Site we did not think about it’s wide spread and really good welcome from the users as we can see one year after the Web Site start her navigation on October 15th, 2002. In spite of the difficulties, to accurately measure the received visits, we got some information to share with you, based on data obtained out of different counters and samplings.
During the first year, our Web Site received approximately 20,000 visits to some of the pages. This makes an average 55 pages per day, or means that every single hour “more than 2 pages” has been read anywhere world wide. This average includes the low visit rates during the first months of life of our Web Site. During the last 19 days we have had a total of 1,814 visited pages, with an average of 95.4 pages per day, which extrapolated for a complete year, makes a total of 35,000 visits per year, the minimum we forecast for the next 12 incoming months.
The Submarine C3′s Web site is virtually accessed from anywhere in the world. At this days, majority of our visitors are accessing through telecomm operators (“Internet Service Providers”) in 37 different countries, by decreasing order of visits: Spain, The United States, Uruguay, Mexico, Chile, Holland, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, Australia, France, Dominican Republic, Portugal, Germany, Costa Rica, United Kingdom, El Salvador, Panama, Sweden, Italy, Guatemala, Puerto Rico, Finland, Bolivia, Canada, Singapore, People’s Republic of China, Egypt, Switzerland, Nicaragua, Belgium, Poland, Andorra, Ecuador.
In our Guestbook, we have received 100 signatures (approximately 2 per week) appreciating the contents and supporting our effort. Visitor’s scoring (“from 1 to 5″) is very high as rating of “5″ and “4″ are very frequent and this makes us to feel proud and motivated to follow with this project. A subject to emphasize is the elegance and respect of the commentaries, reflecting the gentleness and feelings of our visitors, commenting its points of view openly and respect to the others: we have only had to delete in all the year 2 Guestbook entries containing obscene and pornographic commentaries.
We want to share our success and happiness with all of you and give thanks for your visits to the Submarine C3′s Web Site. We hope that it was useful for you. In the list of gratefulness we need to specially mention to the enormous amount of collaborators who have helped us, to the crew’s relatives, to people that sent us to us material to publish: the list of names is long and would be complicated to publish it without involuntarily omit somebody. However, it is of justice to mention to Rita help us a lot, considering from our side, she made an enormous contribution, also is necessary to mention our families who take it with patience. THANKS TO ALL.
When an important event is celebrated, it is normal to create a commemorative object to remember it. In our case we have chosen the composition that accompanies this page. It is a silhouette of the C3 coursing towards Malaga overlapped to a “Sierra Nevada” view from the sea. The Sierra Nevada’s photo is, in our opinion of an incomparable beauty (in spite of our bad photo ability). It was taken to the dawn of a December’s day and represents the snow-white summits of “Mulhacen” and “Veleta” (highest summits in continental Spain, around 3,400 meters high each). The submarine passed necessarily by this site in its penultimate day’s trip from Almeria to Malaga: possibly the crew observed a landscape similar to this. The composition is prepared to print in size 10×15 cms. WE WAIT TO SEE YOU VISITING OUR WEB SITE AGAIN. THANKS!
“Pecio Submarino” Group
May 10, 2009, at 9:51 am
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May 9, 2009, at 4:47 pm
A submarine is a vessel capable of navigating both conventional manner, such as submerged under water, governed by men.
All submarines use to sink the “principle of Archimedes.” This principle states that any object immersed in a fluid experiences an upward thrust equal to the weight of the displaced volume. This principle explains that the buoyancy of the objects and if you increase the weight of an object is floating (positive buoyancy), you can make your weight is greater than the weight of water displaced and thus cause it to submerge. Submarine ballast tanks used to be filled or emptied of water to change its properties buoyancy at will and can handle the transition from a positive buoyancy (the vessel fleet) to negative (dives) or vice versa.
It is clear that the submarines have not been the first ships that sailed riding our oceans, as they require a technology far more advanced than conventional ships. It is not our purpose to explain in detail the operation of a submarine: the reader who is interested in this can find detailed information click below and have access to two websites, one in Spanish and in English. To frame the technology used in the submarine C3, we will spell out the different technologies used in the construction of submarines along the story:
Muscular or Propulsion: The first submarine, based necessary force for traction and other needs in the muscles of the crew.
We can compare this situation to that of the boats moved by oars or vehicles driven by pedals or animal traction.
Propulsion or Steam: Though it may seem quaint, submarines existed steam traction.
Do not forget that the power of steam was the most commonly used for traction of ships until World War II, the industry felt comfortable using this source of energy to move underwater. According to data available to these submarines, some construction continued until the late 1930 (dates after construction of the submarine C3) but this time there were already more advanced technology.
It’s easy to imagine a surface vessel driven by a steam engine and we have all seen pictures of them with fireplaces emanate large amounts of smoke, but when you bring this concept to a submarine must be able to navigate underwater, we must solve two problems: What about fireplaces? What type of energy used for traction when the ship is submerged?. These two problems were solved through the use of chimneys to be folded-up when the ship sank. Later, when submerged, the ship used to pull the energy of water vapor pressure in the boilers.
We can imagine the limited effectiveness of this technology compared with either of those explained below, but it is also true that at the time there were no other alternatives.
or Joint Propulsion: Gasoline-Electric: This technology is used for gasoline engines in the navigation area and electric motors for navigation in immersive. The electrical power required to operate the electric motors is stored in batteries that are recharged through the engine to explode when the ship was at the surface.
This technology was clearly superior to the use of steam but had two big drawbacks: The enormous rate of fire and explosions on board due to the use of gasoline and the intense smell of fuel.
To partly remedy these drawbacks, it was used at some point a variant of this technology on the basis of replacing the gasoline engine with that of kerosene.
Mixed Propulsion Diesel-Electric: Same as above, but replacing the combustion engine for a diesel engine, which eliminated the risk of fire engines and provided significant power.
This is the technology used by the Submarine C3 and most of the submarine from World War II to (almost) present day, excluding nuclear submarine propulsion. Later we will see more details of the same applied to submarine C3.
Nuclear Propulsion: These submarines use a nuclear reactor as an energy source. The first nuclear submarine, the Nautilus was operational, in service by the Navy of the United States of America in the year 1966.
These submarines have a virtually unlimited autonomy but have the drawback of its high cost so that not all countries can maintain a fleet of these ships continued to use yet advanced diesel technology properly.
The submarine C3 was part of the C series of submarines of the Spanish Armada, which planned to acquire 18 units of which only six were eventually built. These submarines were identified by numbers corresponding to the C1 to C6, although not named any of them except the C1 with the name “Isaac Peral. They were virtually identical in design, equipment and technical features, and its main differences: the communication system between submarines dive deck and armament.
The C series is an improved design of the model number 150F Holland. ” The model was developed by one of the world’s largest manufacturer of military technology and in the years that saw the signing of the order to supply submarines armed major countries of world like Japan and England. The submarines were built in Cartagena by the Spanish Society of Shipbuilding (SECN). We can say that the series C had a design of the most advanced and most reliable of the era. Then we will tour the most important elements in terms of its technology that can help us after reviewing the circumstances of the sinking:
Diesel Engines: The submarine was equipped with two diesel engines Vickers brand power of a single 1000 HP, which gave a total power of 2000 HP, which were used to drive the ship during navigation on the surface and to recharge batteries the vessel.
Both engines were mounted at the stern of the submarine and aft, one to the other port and starboard. Behind the diesel engines and electric motors were then lanzatorpedos stern tubes.
Electric Motors: The submarine also had two 375 HP electric motors power each. These engines were installed in the aft, aligned with the respective diesel and behind them. Electric motors provide traction when the ship sailed in Cincinnati.
It is worth the difference in power between the diesel and electric engines, which translates into differences in the speed of navigation and self-immersion and surface. El Submarino C3 developed a maximum speed of 16.5 knots on the surface with a range of 6800 miles (a cruising speed of 10 knots and 3200 miles at 16.5 knots) in developing an immersion speed of 8.5 knots with a range of 150 miles. This is very normal at the time, where the submarines were basically surface ships that were sailing on an occasional immersion in but in time were fearsome weapons of war by the difficulty of detecting them limited to visual and acoustic techniques. Later, with the development of other technologies, submarines became faster ships sailing in that area and immersion usually remain submerged.
Propellers: The submarine was equipped with two propellers in the stern besieged and aligned with the respective pairs of Diesel-Electric engines mounted on both sides of the vessel. There was a mechanism for coupling the engine to the right of the propeller shaft at every moment in this way to change to electric traction diesel or vice versa.
The size of the propeller is “normal” and therefore had to develop their power to turn quickly. This result phenomena of “cavitation” important at the time of the construction of the C3 had not been adequately studied this phenomenon and therefore was not a consideration in the design.
Cavitation is a phenomenon caused by the pressure difference in each of the faces of the blades of the propeller of the vessel to rotate. This pressure difference causes the formation of bubbles from the air dissolved in the water, beating against the propeller blades produce noise. One of the points that facilitate the detection of a submarine is noise, so in modern designs, it increases the size of the propellers to develop their power at lower revolutions eliminating the phenomenon of cavitation.
Governance: As we used to see which aircraft are equipped with redundant elements in order to provide better traction conditions on flight safety, we are not striking double drive in the case of the submarine C3 but there’s another important reason on a ship to have two propellers.
Normally, the control element of the direction of a ship is the rudder, which enables to modify the balance of forces of friction of the hull and the water produced by the start of the vessel and thus change the course of it. A vessel equipped with only as a steering wheel is fully governable, but governance can be improved substantially by the use of two propellers mounted on the stern, symmetrical with respect to the axis of the bay and more separate as possible. In vessels with a double helix, combine the revolutions of each of them and the fly “forward-backward” in this way for a more flexible rule: If I can get it on the starboard tack very efficiently by the forward Port-engine propeller and benefiting (back) to starboard.
Snorkeling: The snorkeling is one that allows the submarine tuso the exchange of gases of combustion to the outside, where the vessel is submerged. Basically you have two channels: a fresh air intake for combustion of the diesel engine and the other for the expulsion to the outside of the exhaust.
The submarine was not equipped with C3 snorkel.
The snorkel has joined the fleet of German submarines during World War II. Until that time there was no need to use this device, but the use and improvement of radar by the Allies turned a submarine surfaced in a vulnerable and easily detectable, so it was very important to remain submerged for long space of time.
That is exactly the functionality provided by the snorkel, as the submarine was submerged to navigate depth with the energy of diesel engines and gas exchange through the combustion snorkel.
May 9, 2009, at 4:41 pm
Malaga is the biggest and more important Andalusian city facing the Mediterranean Sea. At the beginning of the Civil War, Malaga joined the Republican band and given its strategic and economic importance, both sides struggled to have it in their favor.
Today, we know Malaga’s province by its important contribution to Spanish economy due to the powerful service and tourist industries developed during the “sixties”. This situation not always was thus, as Malaga’s economy evolved from a strong industrial tradition.
1. Malaga’s Industry in the middle of XIX century:
In order to understand the evolution of Malaga’s economy, we must go back to the middle of XIX century. On this time, the tourism phenomenon did not exist as we understand it today, Malaga based its economy in the following industries, by decreasing order of “Industrial Contribution Volume”.
- Nourishing (Liquor Production), ranking first on national scale.
- Textile, competing strongly with products from other regions.
- Chemical. Ranking first on national scale
- Siderurgy: Blast Furnaces worked in Malaga until end of XIX century allowing the development of an important auxiliary and transformation industries, ranking this province in number two on national scale.
In this context and considering the positions reached about the different Industrial contributions from national scale, we conclude that the province of Malaga was one of the richest provinces in the middle of XIX century (Number one in Liquor Production and Chemical, important contribution of the Textile industry and number two in Siderurgy)
The economy of Malaga: Beginning of the Civil War
2. The Port:
The port of Malaga always has been of enormous importance for the city’s economy.
The first fact increasing its importance happened in XVIII century when Spanish’s Crown decided to enlarge it, given the proximity of UK’s Gibraltar colony. Later on this initiative changed in favor of Cartagena, creating there a Navy’s Military Base.
But, the Malaga’s industry export activity has been always very important and during XIX century the port takes enormous importance managing all the exports, mainly of: wines, raisins, liquors, chemical goods and iron and steel industry’s products towards other countries and rest of Spanish Peninsula.
The port is the natural communication gate for Malaga’s province with the rest of the world, as the “Penibética Mountains” ranges very close to the coast with craggy mountainsides that make very difficult the access to the City. An adequate and modern access by road was not available until “seventies” as before the antique and narrow road was full of close curves and hill climbs.
Additionally, at the beginning of XX century, the port is rearranged and enlarged again. This was a terrible consequence of the strong erosion produced for aggressive vineyard farming in Guadalmedina River’s valley during the previous centuries. The phenomenon was produced due to grapevine’s farming boom in the scarped mountainside areas. There were consequences: the elevation of the river’s channel (to the point that was needed to build protective walls in the section where the river crosses the city to prevent flooding) and settling of all dragged alluvium materials in the river’s mouth.
After some time the City decides to utilize the co called “terrains taken to the sea”: consequence of this city-planning activity is the construction of the new tree-lined Avenue and the port piers move towards the South.
As a result of these circumstances, when in 1.936 Spanish Civil War starts, Malaga’s port:
- It is important and it has frequent connections with the rest of Europe and North of Africa.
- It is relatively modern, by the reconstruction made at the beginning of the century.
- It is the best access way to the city, looking forward a potential military attack, as the accesses by road are very complicated, limited and therefore inadequate.
3. Malaga’s economy evolution at the beginning of XX century:
At the end of XIX century, there were two phenomena transforming Malaga’s economy: Closing of the Blast Furnaces and the phylloxera epidemic that destroyed the vineyards farming in the province. The consequences are important as far as the impact in the economy that reacts evolving towards other productive sources:
- Implantation of irrigable areas inside the province allowing to farm the orange trees with a clear market inside the Spanish Peninsula, facilitated by the newly built railway connection with Cordoba in 1.906.
- Development in all the coast of the sugar cane farming, with the consequent creation of an important sugar industry with the creation all along the coast, of new big and small (“trapiches”) sugar factories.
- Creation of new Chemical Sector’s industries, staying the previous centuries leadership in this sector manufacturing: phosphates, powder, colorants, ammoniac, etc.
- Strengthening of the steel and iron transformation industry
- Development of nutritional transformation’s industry (flours, oils, conserves, etc.)
- Enormous migratory movements from the country to the city, of farmers who did not find a job in the country.
- Unemployment growth.
4. Beginning of Spanish Civil War in Malaga:
At the beginning of the Civil War, the enormous masses of population in economically precarious situation took the control creating an enormous political chaos and lack of coordination, amount different groups, in the majority anarchists without no control.
The city joined the Republican side at the beginning, but there were not enough actions taken to warrant its defense. This means that it was an easy potential target for the Nationalist army, becoming also a good propagandistic element being a big city having the enormous potential of its port and the existing industrial infrastructure, although not all in production at the time being.
The Republican Government reacted in January, 1,937 to this situation commanding to colonel Villalba to prepare the defense of the city, but Malaga suffered a great ground offensive by three simultaneous fronts and its occupation was in 9 of February of 1,937, approximately two months after the sinking of the C3 Submarine. When the occupation took place 100,000 persons fled in the direction of Almeria being harassed by aviation and bombed from the sea by the cruises “Baleares” and “Canarias”, as well as by the German Navy’s “Graaf von Spree”.
This proximity in the time makes us think that the C3′s sinking was carefully planned being part of a plan to eliminate obstacles for the immediate military intervention in the city that could be eventually obstructed by the intervention of Submarine C3.
May 9, 2009, at 3:23 pm
After the decision of Spanish Ministry of Defense to deny the permission to arise the Submarine C3, our position is to find the way to make them change the decision. Some actions may go in line with legal regulations, analyzing and acting as per law. Others actions should be supported in the solidarity of all those people in agreement with the idea of arising as published in some Spanish newspapers and other communication media. From this Web Site we join and support the arising campaign launched by “El Foro de la Memoria Histórica” In order to succeed arising Submarine C3, we must look in all the directions to find the way of doing and in our opinion if each of us thinks “How to Do It” in an imaginative and creative way, perhaps we can find the formula for removing actual obstacles and unblock the current situation. We understand that we need to find the way to get the permission from Spanish’s Ministry of Defense to arise the C3 as the submarine’s hull contains 10 torpedoes and therefore it is considered as war weapon. In this situation, we encourage you to think openly and widely to generate good ideas in line with learning we can acquire making the exercise of the 9 dots, here proposed to you (Clicking the picture, you will get the solution):
What this exercise teaches to us?: Simply that often, thinking in a much generic way than usual and looking the problems from a different (wider) perspective, it allows to look for the solution us problems that we do not know how to solve. Our proposal is for all of us to think how to solve the problem of arising Submarine, considering that (apparently) the obstacle is that there are 10 torpedoes in the hull. Whenever some of you may find a good idea, please e-mail to us and we will publish here sharing with all. In this way we will surely find a suitable solution to arise her. THANKS, WAITING YOUR INPUTS!
April 30, 2009, at 6:17 pm
NOTE: In this section, we present reference books to the subject of the C3 Submarine and those consulted for the elaboration of this Web Site. In order to facilitate electronic purchasing to our visitors, we include links (by clicking in the book’s title), understanding by our side that this is a service we provide our visitors. There is no economic interest from our side and this is the reason why we followed the criterion to diversify and maximize the number of purchasing sites (e-commerce). THANKS.
| LOS SUEÑOS PERDIDOS. CRONICA DE UN MARINO ESPAÑOL (Rita Campillo) Editorial de la UPV (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, España) ISBN: 84 9705 314 1. Leer Primer Capitulo Critica Literaria del LibroOtro escrito del mismo autor |
| RELATOS INÉDITOS DE LOS SUBMARINOS REPUBLICANOS EN LA GUERRA CIVIL ESPAÑOLA.(RAMÓN CAYUELAS ROBLES) Editorial: Editorial Club Universitario. ISBN: 84 9501 581 1 Leer Primer Capitulo Critica Literaria del Libro |
| Guerra Civil en Málaga 1936-1937,Revisión histórica.(Juan A. Ramos Hitos) Editorial: Algazara. ISBN: 84 87999 84 4 Comentarios al Libro |
| Buques de la Guerra Civil Española. SUBMARINOS (GARCIA FLOREZ, Dionisio). Editorial: Almena. ISBN: 84 88959 71 0 |
| Submarinos republicanos en la Guerra Civil Española (Rodríguez Martín Granizo, Gonzalo y González-Aller Hierro, José Ignacio). Libreria Gabriel Molina. ISBN: 84 95804 01 8 |
| BUQUES DE LA ARMADA ESPAÑOLA: Los años de la postguerra. (Juan Luis Coello Lillo). Editorial: Agualauger. ISBN: 84 932284 8 6 |
| Type VII. U-Boats. (STERN, Robert C.). Brockhampton Press, London. ISBN: 1 860190 8554 |
| SUBMARINOS DEL MUNDO.(Robert Jackson) Editorial: LIBSA. ISBN: 84 662 0250 1 |
| LA ENCICLOPEDIA DE LOS BARCOS (Tony Gibbons). Editorial: Edimat. ISBN: 84 8403 155 1 |
| HISTORIA DE LA GUERRA CIVIL ESPAÑOLA (Hugh Thomas). Editorial: MONDADORI ESPAÑA SA. ISBN: 84 397 0806 8 |
| Historia de España 7. La República. La era de Franco (Ramon Tamames). Editorial: Alianza Editorial. ISBN: 84 2069 568 8 |
| DESAPARECIDOS DE LA GUERRA DE ESPAÑA.(RAFAEL TORRES MULAS) Editorial: La Esfera de los Libros. ISBN: 84 9734 079 5 |
| GUERRA CIVÍL EN MÁLAGA.(Antonio Nadal) Editorial: Arguval. ISBN: 884 86167 08 6 |
| JANE’s FIGHTING SHIPS OF WORLD WAR II. ISBN: 1 85170 494 9 |
| I GUERRA MUNDIAL DIA A DIA. Editorial: LIBSA. ISBN: 84 662 0261 7 |
| II GUERRA MUNDIAL DIA A DIA. Editorial: LIBSA. ISBN: 84 662 0262 5 |
| BATTLE SHIPS (Antony Preston). Editorial: Bison Books Ltd. ISBN: 0 86124 063 4 |
| CRUISIERS (Antony Preston). Editorial: Bison Books Ltd. ISBN: 0 86124 064 2 |
| SUBMARINES (Antony Preston). Editorial: Bison Books Ltd. ISBN: 0 86124 066 9 |
| DESTROYERS (Antony Preston). Editorial: Bison Books Ltd. ISBN: 0 86124 065 0 |
| STRIKE CRAFT (Antony Preston). Editorial: Bison Books Ltd. ISBN: 0 86124 068 5 |
| AIRCRAFT CARRIERS (Antony Preston). Editorial: Bison Books Ltd. ISBN: 0 86124 067 7 |
| GUIA COMPLETA DE SUBMARINISMO (Patrick Mioulane, Jean-Michel Oyhenart). Editorial: Blume. ISBN: 84 8076 102 4 |
| THE GOLDEN SEA (Joseph E Brown). Editorial: Bradley Smith. ISBN: 87 223 412 6 |
| REACTORES COMERCIALES. (Antonio López Ortega). Agualarga Editores S.L.. Avda. Democracia 7. 28031 MADRID. ISBN: 84 95088 87 8 |
| MALAGA IN MEMORIAM. Editorial Arguval. C/ Héroe Sostoa, 112. 29002 MALAGA. ISBN: 84 16167 31 0 |
| DESDE MALAGA, Recuerdos… (Juan Antonio Fernández Rivero). Editorial Miramar S.L. C/ Granados 10. 29008 MALAGA. ISBN: 84 920296 2 5 |
| La Caza del Octubre Rojo, (Tom Clancy). Plaza & Janes ISBN: 84 01 49523 7 |
| El puño de Dios, (Forsyth, Frederick). Plaza & Janes ISBN: 84 01 32554 4 |
| Patrones de embarcaciones de recreo PER, (SIMON QUINTANA, José de). Editorial Simon Quintana. ISBN: 84 920962 2 5 |
| Patrones de Yate, (SIMON QUINTANA, José de). Editorial Simon Quintana |
| Capitanes de Yate, (SIMON QUINTANA, José de). Editorial Simon Quintana |
April 28, 2009, at 8:14 am
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Have a nice inmersion!
In this Web Site we want to pay a tribute to the brave submariners who left their life defending the city and inhabitants of Málaga during the Spanish Civil War.
April 26, 2009, at 6:17 pm
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Early in the morning, our motor boat left the marine going to open sea and maintaining course towards the C3′s shipwreck area. We only had a reference (that not bearing), which fixed the shipwreck in front of “El Candado’s Marine”. In front of “El Candado’s Marine” in nautical terms means that one ship will see this reference in the coast cross to her course. With this poor data, but using the common sense (“less common of the senses”) we followed our nautical chart’s indications to approach the line of 70 meter’s depth, same as the Submarine’s shipwreck.
Now here we run guided by our sonar following the parallel line until having “El Candado’s Marine” crossed by the port band. Then we followed the meridian coursing north towards the coast, scrutinizing the sea bottom with the sonar at speed of 3 knots to be able to carefully track all the sea floor, that was sandy and without no accident (stones, nips, rocks..). Doing this, a sonar echo arose from about 8 meters higher that sea bottom and with spindle shape, split in two pieces and a prominence higher, probably proceeding from the Submarine’s conning tower. Then the GPS reading was: N 36º 39.526′ W 4º 21.335′ (N 36º 39′ 31.6″ W 4º 21′ 20.1″). We took the bearing from the Malaga’s Lighthouse 4.3 Miles NW and from “El Candado’s Marine”3.6 Miles N to mark in our nautical chart and in this way, we perpetuated the tomb of these brave submariners.
We used the common sense and the documentation that had arrived at our hands. Final Recipe was easy:
- 4.3 Miles SE from Málaga’s Lighthouse.
- 3.6 Miles in front of the “El Candado’s Marine” and approximately 70 Mts. depth.
- Here, under the marine birds, at 70 Meters deep lays the Submarine C3′s hull and 37 brave submariners pictured in a day of dead calm sea as December 12th, 1.936 was.
 
We often sail throught the shipwreck’s zone and although we have not seen Gas Oil bubbling out, we have observed this of spots that are habitually upon the shipwreck area in the days of death calm sea, even considering that in close areas the sea is clean . The shipwreck area smells like a mixture of Gas Oil and oil, as if we were in a garage.
April 26, 2009, at 10:26 am
In this Web Site we want to pay a tribute to the brave submariners who left their life defending the city and inhabitants of Málaga during the Spanish Civil War.
In December 12th, 1,936 the Republican Submarine C3 patrolled in the neighborhoods of Malaga (Spain), when it received a torpedo’s hit fired by the German submarine U34 in her way home back to Germany after participating in the so called “Operación Ursula” in which two submarines of German navy (without ensign and painted out all distinguishing marks) supported to one of combatant sides.
As a result of the impact, the Submarine C3 sank immediately with most of its crew, only being three survivors. After the sinking, the intelligence services manipulated the information to make think that the Submarine C3 passed to the Nacionalist band. Crew’s Relatives were during many years without knowing the destiny of their dear beings.
In 1.997, a sport fisherman, observed that in a certain zone Diesel oil bubbles emerged from the sea. Investigating the area, finally it was possible to positively determine that they came from the C3 Submarine’s sunken hull. Since then the relatives of the crew try to arise the hull and recover all the rests. They have funding to pay the shipwreck recovery. Today, only lacks the permission of the Spanish’s Ministry of Defense that refuses to approve that the Submarine C3 comes afloat.
In our Web site we try to collect all the data that we have been able to compile on the history of the Submarine C3. We appreciate from those people or crew’s relatives who may contribute to enrich this information, to leave your comments in our Guestbook, or email us. We have a section of Collaborators where we will be pleased to publish your articles or opinions if you send us.
Another Page dedicated to Submarine C3
NOTE: We scrupulously tried to respect regulations regarding to the publication of original material with copyrights. Case any person may find information that supposedly does not fulfill this criteria, PLEASE e-mail us with your comments allowing us to correct any deficiency. THANKS . Animated images in this page, have been downloaded by courtesy of http://club.telepolis.com/gifotas
December 12, 2003, at 7:33 pm
Be held the next day December 12th (anniversary of the sinking) at 10 am at the Cathedral of Malaga. At 11th envisaged a boat trip to the location of the sinking to perform a tribute to the victims and lay a wreath of flowers.
From this website, we join the spirit of the act looking forward to arise the submarine.
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