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Chapters: Jupiter Class Minelayer. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 72. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Jupiter Class minelayers was a group of four vessels of the Spanish Navy built during the Spanish Republic. Three of them came into service during the Civil War after joining the rebel side. The minelayers were commissioned by the Government of the Republic to SECN shipyards at Ferrol in 1935, a year before the start of the Spanish Civil War. The first three ships of the class were seized by the insurgents and served in the rebel fleet. Their first deployment was the blockade of Bilbao. Due to the lack of destroyers in the Francos fleet, and the potential of their armament, the main mission of these ships was not minelaying, but to face Government units in open combat, despite their slow speed. Along with Vulcano, the Jupiter was one of the main players in the blockade of international shipping in the ports of Biscay, where she took part in the capture of several merchantmen, especially the British Candleston Castle, Dover Abbey and Yorkbrook, the French Cens and a number of Republican trawlers during the second half of 1937. She also laid four minefields off Santander and Gijon, from April to July 1937. The rebel battleship Espana was lost on 30 April after hitting by accident one of her mines at Santander. There were only four casualties among Espanas crew. On 17 July, while on patrol off Gijon, the Jupiter caught two British cargo ships while they were attempting to run the blockade. One of them, the Sarastone, managed to reach the harbor despite being firing on. The other steamer, Candleston Castle, stopped after the minelayer fired two shots across her bows. She was handed over by the Jupiter to the auxiliary cruiser Ciudad de Palma, which escorted the captured merchantm...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=20618566


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  • ISBN-13: 9781156537169
  • Publisher: Books LLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC
  • Height: 152 mm
  • No of Pages: 74
  • Spine Width: 5 mm
  • Weight: 122 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1156537169
  • Publisher Date: 15 Sep 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Jupiter Class Minelayer
  • Width: 229 mm


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