Cartagena Naval Base

Cartagena Naval Base
Arsenal de Cartagena
Type Military base
Site information
Owner  Spain
Controlled by Spanish Navy
Site history
Built 1732-1782
Built by Sebastián Feringán (1732-1762)
Mateo Vodopich (1762-1782)
In use 1782 –present
Garrison information
Current
commander		 Vice admiral Aniceto Rosique Nieto
Occupants See Ships

The Naval Base of Cartagena also known as Arsenal of Cartagena is a military base and arsenal of the Spanish Navy located in the city of Cartagena, Spain. It is one of the oldest naval bases in Spain and the world, having been created in the 18th century. It is also the main Spanish base of the Mediterranean.

History

The Naval Base of Cartagena in 1799

The port of Cartagena is in a privileged place in the Mediterranean. The port was created by the Carthaginians in the 2nd century B.C. It remained as a commercial port until the reign of Felipe V, when it took remarkable importance when the King remodeled the Navy and placed in Cartagena a naval base that would be the naval center of the Mediterranean.

It was at the end of 1731, when the construction of the arsenal started and finalize in 1782, in the reign of Carlos III. The finale cost was of 112 millions of reales.

The Naval Base of Cartagena was the most important industrial complex of the Mediterranean basin in the 18th century due to the activity of its shipyards and auxiliary factories, including carpentry, rigging, sailing, blacksmithing, as well as crafts and fine arts workshops for Carving of the ornamentation of the ships of the time. In the second half of this century, 21 ships, 17 frigates and more than fifty brigs, xebecs, hulks, galleys, etc. were built there, independently of a large number of smaller vessels. In the Arsenal, thousands of people worked daily in the construction and the maintenance of the units of the Navy.

The Naval Base was enlarged during the reign of Isabel II in 1849. In 1889, electricity was introduced into the arsenal. In 1918, the moats of the dry docks built by Feringán, began to serve as docks of submarine docks, and that after their recent remodeling still serve.[1]

Ships

ESPN Formentor (P-82)
  • Segura class.
    • Segura (M31)
    • Sella (M32)
    • Tambre (M33)
    • Turia (M34)
    • Duero (M35)
    • Tajo (M36)
ESPN Infanta Elena (P-76)
ESPN Diana F-32 (previously M-11) in the Naval Base of Cartagena
    • Infanta Elena (P-76)
    • Infanta Cristina (P-77)
    • Cazadora (P-78)
  • Toralla class.
    • Toralla (P81)
    • Formentor (P82)
  • Submarine rescue ships.
    • Neptuno (A-20)

[2]

See also

References

  1. ↑ History of the Naval Base of Cartagena]
  2. ↑ Ships

Coordinates: 37°36′04″N 0°59′33″W / 37.6012°N 0.9926°W / 37.6012; -0.9926

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