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The Spanish civil war saw some of the rare naval battles of the interwar, between ships of the Republican and Nationalists, mostly over convoys.
The naval war in the Cantabrian Sea. The national fleet in the north of Spain was small, and so, it was of paramount importance to control some of the most significant ports. For this reason, a fleet had to be improvised around the cruiser ‘Almirante Cervera’ as flagship.
In July 1936 the Spanish Navy (with the exception of some old vessels such as their battleships), was a quite modern and prepared force. Their warships were well-built and uniformly designed: they were the seventh or eighth navy in the world.
dispatched naval squadrons to Spanish waters to evacuate "endangered" countrymen and to uphold their national interests, both economic and strategic. Warships would remain throughout the war, the German Navy sending a disproportionately large contingent, virtually its entire surface fleet.
On February 21 the nonintervention committee of neutral powers finally completed their plans for a naval blockade of Spain to prevent arms from reaching both parties to the civil war. The patrol proper began on the 26th with a section of coast divided among England, France, Germany, and Italy.
The Spanish Civil War began on 17 July 1936 in an attempted military takeover of the foundering Republic, a regime full of raw idealism but beset with bitter divisions of region, class, and ideology. The generals' bid to save Spain from supposed disintegration by a quick coup failed and instead triggered
The Spanish Republic and Spanish Civil War. The cruiser Canarias was the flagship of the Spanish Navy until its discharge in 1975. In 1931, following the proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic, the Navy of the Spanish Kingdom became the Spanish Republican Navy.
