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The Peral Submarine held Saturday, December 15, which will be its final voyage.
The Cartagena inventor prototype will be moved from its present location outside on the Paseo del Muelle his final abode in the Naval Museum of Cartagena, to prevent spoilage.
The Office of Local Police Traffic set for Saturday morning cutting device traffic on Paseo de Alfonso XII to allow lifting work, installation and removal of the submarine is made ​​smoothly.
250 tonnes fat IZAR THE SUBMARINE
à ‰ hese are initiated on the seven o'clock, with the installation of a crane on the access road to the cruise terminal and marina yacht club, which will be closed to traffic.
This is a 250-ton crane, with which, on the nine o'clock ice is expected to be the submarine, which weighs 30 tons and dimensions of 22 meters in length and 2.71-sleeved .
This is one of the most complicated process, given the state of corrosion presents the prototype at its base.
Company personnel responsible for performing the transfer and has overseen the points that support nylon panties to be used to avoid damage to the hull.
To perform this operation and subsequent transfer to the Naval Museum will be necessary to cut the two traffic lanes Spring Ride.
60 tons and 30 METERS OF TRANSPORTATION
The submersible be deposited in a truck with a special transport gondola.
With the submarine over come despite transport about 60 tons, measured 30 meters in length from the tractor to the end of the gondola, and will have a height of four feet.
The submarine is expected to have accommodated and secured in the transport of ten in the morning, when it will start moving to the premises of the Naval Museum in the military arsenal.
15 MINUTES OF TRANSFER
The convoy will run Reverse directional and will have to overcome in his roundabout way Heroes of Cavite and then go straight ahead from the entrance of Naval Museum and enter the Arsenal through the metal door near Naval Racing Commission.
It expects to employ about 15 minutes to cover this stretch.
Once inside the interior streets Arsenal flow through the enclosure to complete the museum ship that has been authorized for the purpose.
The entrance to this ship transport through a central arch on the right fits, has been calculated millimeter.
However more complicated operation of all the submarine will be lowered from the gondola and parked in the bed to be exposed.
It used two special cranes, given the reduced Dimensions of the front door and the height of the ship, about ten meters.
CADIZ A CARTAGENA GOING THROUGH THE EXPO
What will be the final transfer of Peral Submarine is not the only one who has made ​​the prototype along its century existence.
Mothballed for forty years since its launch in 1888, the submersible was scrapping meat in Cadiz Arsenal Ratchet, until 1929, Admiral Matthew Garcia de los Reyes, first commander of the Spanish submarine arm, managed to recover the hull and tow by sea to Cartagena, settled in 1930 on land opposite the Submarine Base, retouched after its hull.
On December 1, 1965, at the request of the City of Cartagena, was made ​​up of popular monument in the Plaza de los Heroes de Cavite, where he remained until 1991, when he was seconded to the Hall of Murcia in the Seville Expo 1992.
After his return in late 1992, was put back in the vicinity of the Heroes of Cavite.
The renovation of the spring and the opening of the city to the sea, in August 2002 led to the transfer of the submarine to its present location, between the Museum of Underwater Archaeology and the Chamber of Commerce.
Marine corrosion
These years of outdoor exposure have dented submersible hull and structure, badly damaged by marine corrosion, even threatening to its total disappearance, led to the Navy and the Naval Museum to propose moving to a location to allow correct exposure and conservation.
After several months of analysis by experts at last Saturday was held this last and final transfer to Museum one of the main icons of the city, for 47 years.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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