Hello everybody.
I'd like to present myself. I'm a long fan of Shipbucket and it's drawings and finally i dared to do a drawing by myself.
The ship that i've chosen for this first time is the not very known BOU Nabarra.
This ship, a simply cod fishing craft, was built in Hall Russell shipyard in Aberden on 1928 and was originally named Vendabal (Strong Wind), but on December 9th of that same year it was renamed Nabarra.
When Spanish Civil war started, the autonomous Basque government requisitoned her, among many other ships, to create the Basque Auxiliary navy and the Spanish republican navy armed her, originally with a 101,6mm gun on prow and two machine guns on the bridge and later they installed a second 101,6mm gun on stern.
Being part of the Basque Auxiliary navy, she took part in numerous escort actions against various nationalist ships, like a naval skirmish occurred around 40miles outside of the town of Pasaia where the nationalist destroyer Velasco attacked the Nabarra sister ships Bizkaia and Gipuzkoa and, when the nabarra joined her sisters, the made the Velasco flee.
But the most famous action of this ship was for having taken part in the Battle of cape Matxitxako where, the trawlers Bizkaia, Gipuzkoa and Nabarra, escorting another cargo ship, the Galdames, had to fight against the heavy cruiser Canarias in a very unequal battle which lasted for hours and ended with the Nabarra sunk and the other two ships going back to the safe port of Bilbao.
Of the 64 crewmen of the Nabarra only 20 survived and they were rescued by the sailors of the Canarias and later, the captain of this ship, future admiral of the Spanish navy, interceded in favour of these 20 sailors who were given a death sentence but it was pardoned, thanks to him.
The shipwreck has not been found yet.
Things to consider:
-It's my very first shipbucket pic
-It's not finished (shades missing)
-Don't be too hard with me please, i'm still geting the knack of this
my sources :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basque_Auxiliary_Navy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasajes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cape_Machichaco
http://www.marinavasca.eu/images/buques ... b-1937.jpg
for the keel i used this model you can see in the photos of this page:
http://archivoexvotos.revista-sanssolei ... 9/bizkaia/
Technical data:
-Displacement: 1204 tons
-Length: 65,40m
-Beam: 10,40m
-Forestay: 5,85m
-Draft: 5,79m
-Armament: On 101,6mm cannon on prow, two MG guns on the bridge and another 101,6mm cannon on stern.
-Speed: 11knots
-Complement: 42-50