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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.
The Spanish civil war saw some of the rare naval battles of the interwar, between ships of the Republican and Nationalists, mostly over convoys.
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.
These are the main naval units of the Spanish Republican Navy between the July coup against the Spanish Republic and the defeat of the Republican Armed Forces in the Civil War. All surviving ships became part of the Navy of Francoist Spain .
naval reaction. Franco was clamoring for more troops, aircraft, and. equipment for the land war, and so Mussolini ordered a major escalation in the levels of his men and materiel in Spain. But when Franco also called for the transfer of two more submarines to the Spanish flag, Mussolini refused.
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
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