The training ship of the Navy of the Kingdom of Spain, Juan Sebastian de Elcanomade landfall this Thursday morning in the port of Havana and quickly onlookers and passers-by came to see the four-masted vessel.
Although since yesterday it positioned itself in front of the Havana bay, it was not until the morning of this May 12 that it entered the capital, and to announce its arrival the ship fired 21 salvos as a salute to the city.
In some official media, the detonations were alerted, but almost no inhabitant of the city noticed that information and when hearing the sound of the salvos, some ran scared, others were startled by the tragedy that the city experienced almost a week ago before the explosion. of the Saratoga hotel and, a few days later, a house in Old Havana, which has kept the inhabitants with their hair on end.
The Juan Sebastian de Elcano It has a displacement of 3,770 tons and its crew is led by Captain Juan Vázquez Reyes, head of the Department of the Revolutionary Navy. With this visit, there are 13 visits made by the ship to the Island, launched in the shipyards of Cádiz, Spain, on March 5, 1927.
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