The Maritime Pine so typical of Ferrol

Ferrol (also called El Ferrol) is an Atlantic-facing city in north-western Spain. Today, is best known for the Navantia shipbuilding yards and for being the Spanish Capital of the Maritime Department of the North and back in the 17th century was the most important arsenal in Europe. The city was the birthplace of the Spanish General Francisco Franco in 1892, and was officially known as El Ferrol del Caudillo from 1938 to 1982. Ferrol has a population of 77,859 and its metropolitan area (i.e.: the urban area plus all the satellite towns known as Ferrolterra ) has a population of over 210,000 (2004). Download high resolution version (536x800, 121 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Download high resolution version (536x800, 121 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Navantia, formerly Bazán or IZAR, has become Spains leading state-owned shipbuilding firm, offering its services to both military and civil projects. ... (16th century - 17th century - 18th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 17th century was that century which lasted from 1601-1700. ... An Arse is an establishment for the construction, repair, receipt, storage, and excretion and issue of weapons and ammunitionand random iraqis. ... A satellite composite image of Europe Europe is geologically and geographically a peninsula, forming the westernmost part of Eurasia. ... Francisco Franco Francisco Paulino Hermenegildo Teódulo Franco y Bahamonde Salgado Pardo de Andrade (December 4, 1892 – November 20, 1975), abbreviated Francisco Franco Bahamonde and sometimes known as Generalísimo Francisco Franco, was dictator of Spain from 1939 until his death in 1975. ... 1892 was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... 1938 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1982 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

History

The Spanish Armada leaving the Bay of Ferrol (1588)

After various local dominations, Henry II gave the town to the Andrade family. [1]. It was only considered a safe harbour under the House of Austria, [2] but became a leading naval centre under the Bourbons. For the first time the immense strategic importance of the port of Ferrol came to be understood and it was made Capital of the Maritime Department of the North, formed under Ferdinand VI and Charles III for the defence of the Spanish Colonial Empire in America. Rapid and well planned improvements followed and the position of Ferrol was made almost unassailable from the sea, the difficulties of disembarking troops on its precipitous coast being heightened by its protecting line of fortresses, particularly San Carlos. [3] The Naval shipyards of La Graña and Ferrol, were built between 1726-1783 and produced ships protected with copper sheets from the rolling mills of Xubia. In 1772 it was created The Spanish Royal Academy of Naval Engineers of Ferrol the first one in Spain. The Spanish Armada. ... The Spanish Armada. ... The Spanish Armada (Old Spanish: Grande y Felicissima Armada, large and most fortunate fleet; but called by the British, with ironic intention, la Armada Invencible, the Invincible Fleet) was a fleet sent by King Philip II of Spain in 1588 in a failed attempt to bring an end to his... The Maritime Pine so typical of Ferrol Ferrol (also called El Ferrol) is an Atlantic-facing city in north-western Spain. ... Rulers with the title Henry II include: Henry II of Castile Henry II of England Henry II of France Henry II of Germany, also Holy Roman Emperor Henry II of Navarre Henry II, Duke of Saxony Henry II of Jerusalem (also Henry II of Cyprus) Henry II, Duke of Bavaria... This article does not give much verifiable information about the subject explaining why the subject is significant or notable. ... Habsburg (sometimes spelled Hapsburg, but never so in official use) was one of the major ruling houses of Europe. ... This article or section should include material from France: Wars of Religion _ Bourbon Dynasty The House of Bourbon dates from at least the beginning of the 13th century, when the estate of Bourbon was ruled by a Lord, vassal of France. ... Ferdinand VI, (September 23, 1713 - August 10, 1759), king of Spain from 1746 until his death, second son of Philip V, founder of the Spanish Bourbon dynasty (as opposed to the French Bourbons), by his first marriage with Maria Louisa of Savoy, was born at Madrid on September 23 1713. ... The name Charles III is used to refer to numerous persons in history: Kings: Charles III, Holy Roman Emperor Charles III of France Charles III of Spain Charles III of Hungary (also known as Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor) Charles III of Navarre Charles III of Savoy Charles III of... Spanish colonization of the Americas began with the arrival in the Americas of Christopher Columbus in 1492. ... Ferrol is a Galizan town near A Coruña. ... La Graña is a submarine Station, shipyard and town half a mile by sea from El Ferrol Categories: Towns in Spain ... Events George Friderich Handel becomes a British subject. ... 1783 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... 1772 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Naval Engineers, The Spanish Royal Academy of: In 1772, during the reign Charles III of Spain it was created in El Ferrol the First Royal Academy of Naval Engineers in Spain. ... Ferrol is a Galizan town near A Coruña. ...

A decline set during the reign of Charles IV, and in 1800, after the defences had been removed, a British fleet of 109 vessels landed troops on the beach of Doniños to take the Castle of San Felipe. Although only equipped with meagre artillery, the castle small defence force under the command of Count Donadio and helped by citizens of Ferrol, successfully resisted the attack and the fleet withdrew. [4] The name Charles IV is used to refer to numerous persons in history: Kings: Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV of Spain, king of Spain Charles IV of France, king of France Charles IV of Hungary, king of Hungary Other: Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine This is a disambiguation... 1800 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Fleet can refer to several things: Two or more motor vehicles owned by a company A group of ships: Fishing fleet Naval fleet, such as US 1st Fleet also known as the US Coast Guard US 2nd Fleet US 3rd Fleet US 5th Fleet US 6th Fleet US 7th Fleet... Ferrol is a Galizan town near A Coruña. ...

The arsenals and fortress remained abandoned and they were easily occupied by the French in 1809. The alliance with England during the War of Independence failed to prevent the deterioration in the town’s fortunes and, under Ferdinand VII, Ferrol became a “dead” town, losing its title of capital. New activities sprang up, however, during the administration of the Marquis de Molina, Minister for Naval affairs in the mid 19th century. 1809 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Royal motto: Dieu et mon droit (French: God and my right) Englands location within the UK Official language English de facto Capital London de facto Largest city London Area  - Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population  - Total (2001)  - Density Ranked 1st UK 49,138,831 377/km² Religion... Ferdinand VII (October 14, 1784 - September 29, 1833) was King of Spain from 1813 to 1833. ... Ferrol is a Galizan town near A Coruña. ... The Marquis de Molina was Spanish Minister for Naval affairs in the mid 19th century. ... Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Ten years after the Spanish-American War of 1898 where the Spaniards lost Cuba and the Philippines, the Maura Government, in an attempt to restore the Spanish Navy and Spanish shipbuilding industry hired to The Spanish Society for Naval Construction (whose major investors were the British firms: John Brown, Vickers and Armstrong) the shipbuilding yards, workshops, foundries and dry docks in El Ferrol. The Spanish-American War took place in 1898, and resulted in the United States of America gaining control over the former colonies of Spain in the Caribbean and Pacific. ... 1898 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Maura Tierney Maura Therese Tierney Morrissette (born February 3, 1965) is an American film and television actress, most recently known for her role on NBCs drama ER. She was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and studied drama at New York University and Circle-in-the-Square Theatre School. ... From 1909 up until the Spanish Civil War, the naval construction in Spain was monopolized by the Sociedad Española de Construcción Naval (SECN - Spanish Society for Naval Construction). ... John Brown is a common name shared by numerous individuals. ... The Vickers corporation, founded as the Vickers Company in 1828, was a British manufacturer, primarily of military equipment. ... People Named Armstrong Armstrong is or was a surname or second name of several people: Billie Joe Armstrong, American pop/punk musician (born 1972) B.J. Armstrong, former NBA guard, most notably with the Chicago Bulls Edwin Armstrong, American electrical engineer and inventor of FM radio (1890-1954) Eugene Armstrong... Men from Francisco de Orellanas expedition building a small brigantine, the San Pedro, to be used in the search for food Shipbuilding is the construction of ships. ... A workshop is a room or smaller building which contains tools and/or machinery for making or repairing things. ... The term foundry originally was a synonym for an ironworks or general metal works where metal casting operations were performed. ... U.S. Navy submarine USS Greeneville in dry dock following collision with a fishing boat. ... Ferrol is a Galizan town near A Coruña. ...

The Navantia FFG Digitally Controlled Frigates (2005)

For a period of sixteen years all the technicians were exclusively British, and the situation was not altered till 1925 when the management was taken over by Spanish engineers, as one of the new policies introduced by the then newly created government, including ministers both civil and military, of the dictator Miguel Primo de Rivera (1923–1930). In sight of the outbreak of a civil war, and because there was fear of social unrest in the naval station, the Foreign Office in London, organized a ship to repatriate all the remaining British citizens and on 22nd July 1936 the ship HMS Witch (D-89) departed from Ferrol back to Britain. The outbreak of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) meant that the shipbuilding yards, workshops, foundries and dry docks in Ferrol were taken over by the state and fully nationalized in 1945 under the name of BAZAN, later renamed as IZAR and from January 2005 as NAVANTIA. The town has also been, for centuries, the birthplace of relevant national and international personalities; men and women of letters, state's men, politicians, and others, amongst them Francisco Franco, after whom the city was officially known as El Ferrol del Caudillo from 1938 to 1982 [5]. The end of the dictatorship and the arrival of democracy in 1978 did not help Ferrol in the slightest, and from 1982 till the early 1990s the city confronted numerous problems due to a decline in the naval sector. The beginning of the new millennium however, has been a time of economic expansion and prosperity in general. A new motorway and an outer-port [6] have been recently built; making the communications by land and sea, with the rest of the world, much easier and faster. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... 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Ferrol, the most important Naval Station in the north of Spain, with its well sheltered harbour and busy port, together with the NAVANTIA shipyards seems to be flourishing once again, and with it, the whole heavily populated district of Las Mariñas and Ferrolterra. [7] Naval Base See also Submarine warfare Surface warfare List of navies External links Naval battles Spanish Naval History Categories: Naval warfare ... Navantia, formerly Bazán or IZAR, has become Spains leading state-owned shipbuilding firm, offering its services to both military and civil projects. ... Gallaecia or Callaecia was the name of a Roman province that comprised a territory in the north-west of Hispania (approximately the current Galicia of Spain and the north of Portugal). ... ...

Quotations

• It is said in Ferrol, that after the unsuccessful British attempt to capture Ferrol in the year 1800, the British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger said in one of his speeches at the House of Commons that "If Great Britain had a naval station so easy to defend as Ferrol, due to its location, it would have been surrounded by a thick silver wall" [8]. Battle of Cape Finisterre (1805). Note: The attack on Ferrol happened in sight of the Napoleonic wars in Europe, where the Spaniards were expected to take side with the French, as they did in the Battle of Trafalgar 1805.

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British Novel

• The English writer C. S. Forester (1899-1966) immortalized El Ferrol in her Horatio Hornblower novels when she decided that this was the Naval Station where her imaginary British Naval Officer was taken as a prisoner of war when captured by the Spanish during the Napoleonic Wars.[9]

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Internal Links

• Alvaro de Bazán class
• Vickers-Armstrong
• Racing Club de Ferrol
• Alonso Pita da Veiga
• Benito Vicetto Pérez
• Jenaro Pérez Villaamil
• Concepción Arenal
• Casto Méndez Núñez
• José Canalejas Méndez
• Pablo Iglesias Posse
• Marquis of Amboage
• Ramón Franco
• Francisco Franco
• Ricardo Carvalho Calero
• Gonzalo Torrente Ballester

Alvaro de Bazán completes sea trials The Alvaro de Bazán class (also known as the F-100 class of frigates) are a new class of AEGIS-equipped air defense frigates entering service with the Spanish Navy. ... The Vickers corporation, founded as the Vickers company in 1828, was a British manufacturer, primarily of military equipment. ... Racing Club de Ferrol (founded in 1917) is a Spanish football team from the city of El Ferrol near the port of A Coruña in north-western Spain. ... Pita da Veiga, Alonso: Born in El Ferrol in 15th century Spain, was the most remarkable young officer of the Spanish Tercios fighting, under the orders of Count Fernando de Andrade, in the Battle of Pavia (Italy), between the years 1513-1525, becoming a lord with the right to wear... Vicetto Pérez, Benito: Born in El Ferrol in 19th century Spain, was one of the most remarkable figures of the Galician Renascence in Literature, and it was thanks to his work and enthusiasm that he make possible the Galician Regionalism. Categories: People stubs ... Pérez Villaamil, Jenaro: Born in El Ferrol in 19th century Spain, he was a remarkable painter and prime example of the Galician Romantic Movement. In his work, particularly in his landscapes, he shows an unmistakeable taste for the English painters of the same period. ... Concepción Arenal (born in El Ferrol in the 19th Century) excelled in literature, and was the first woman ever to go to university in Spain. ... Méndez Núñez, Casto: Excellent sailor and Spanish hero of the 19th century born in El Ferrol, who directed the battles of Abtao and El Callao in 1866, as General Commander of the Spanish fleet in the Pacific, during the war with Peru and Chile. ... José Canalejas y Méndez (1854-November 12, 1912) was a Spanish politician, born in El Ferrol on July 31, 1854. ... Pablo Iglesias Posse Spanish politician born in El Ferrol on 18th October1850 who died in Madrid on 9th December1925. ... Pla y Monge, Ramón Pedro Francisco: Philanthropic multimillionaire and politician of the 19th century born in El Ferrol best known as the Marquis of Amboage. ... Ramón Franco y Bahamonde (1896-October 1938) born in El Ferrol, together with Francisco they were two national heroes in Spain during the days of the Spanish Republic and the Primo de Rivera dictatorship. ... Francisco Franco Francisco Paulino Hermenegildo Teódulo Franco y Bahamonde Salgado Pardo de Andrade (December 4, 1892 – November 20, 1975), abbreviated Francisco Franco Bahamonde and sometimes known as Generalísimo Francisco Franco, was dictator of Spain from 1939 until his death in 1975. ... Ricardo Carvalho Calero (El Ferrol, Spain, October 30, 1910 - March 25, 1990) became, with the arrival of democracy after the Francisco Franco´s regime, the first ever professor of Galician Literature and Linguistics, at the Galician university in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. ... Gonzalo Torrente Ballester (June 13, 1910 - January 27, 1999) was a Spanish writer, primarily a novelist though he also published journalism, essays, and plays. ...

External links

• NAVANTIA Spanish Company, Leader in Military Shipbuilding
• Green Tourism in Northern Spain 2005
• Traveller's Guide of Europe: El Ferrol c.1919
• El Ferrol Maritime Province - Registration Ensign 2001
• Warships of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)
• Damian Cosme de Churruca y Elorza (1761-1805)
• Vessels Blockading various French and Spanish ports - May 1805.
• Offshore Technology design and made in El Ferrol 2004
• Official web-page in Spanish for the C.I.S.- Ferrol
• The 19th Group of Boy Scouts of El Ferrol since 1920s
• Official Web-page in Galician and Spanish for City Council of Ferrol
• News-page in Spanish for the metropolitan area of El Ferrol (i.e.: Ferrolterra)
• Informative Council Web-page in Spanish about Ferrolterra also known as Comarca de Ferrol
• The "Revista Naval" page published in El Ferrol in Spanish for the "Armada Española"