MV Mar Negro
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Mar Negro was an armed merchantman of the Nationalist Spanish Navy during the Spanish Civil War. The cargo ship was launched in 1930 along with her sister ship MV Mar Cantábrico, and after five years with the Compañía Marítima Del Nervión company, she was requisitioned by the Spanish Republican Navy in 1936. Captured by a group of Nationalist sympathizers from her crew off Algeria in 1937, she entered in service in 1938 after being converted to an auxiliary cruiser.
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MV Mar Negro | |
History | |
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Spain | |
Name | Mar Negro |
Namesake | Black Sea |
Owner | Compañía Marítima Del Nervión |
Builder | Euskalduna of Bilbao |
Launched | 1930 |
Fate | Requisitioned by the Republican Navy in 1936, later defected to the Nationalist faction in 1937 |
Nationalist Spain | |
Name | Mar Negro |
Operator | Spanish Nationalist Navy |
Builder | SECN, Bilbao |
Acquired | September 1937 |
Commissioned | 20 May 1938 |
Out of service | 19 October 1939 |
Reclassified | Auxiliary cruiser, 1937 |
Fate | Returned to original owner in 1939, later sold to various owners, scrapped in 1973 |
General characteristics | |
Displacement | 6,632 tn |
Length | 123.39 m (404.8 ft) |
Beam | 16.61 m (54.5 ft) |
Draught | 7.8 m (26 ft) |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 15 knots (28 km/h) |
Range | 60,000 nmi (110,000 km) at 10 knots (19 km/h) |
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