The Navy Wants to Recover the Propeller of the Cruiser 'Canarias'

The Navy wants to recover one of the four propellers of the cruiser 'Canarias' for its museum collections, which was displayed at the entrance of the North dock of the port of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, and which was removed by order of the Port Authority, as it was considered a 'Francoist relic' included in the catalog of the Historical Memory Law.

According to the newspaper La Razón, the Navy learned on February 17 through the media – in fact, puentedemando.com had already published it the day before – about the removal of the piece 'and has raised a query to the City Council of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, once the Port Authority decided that it no longer wanted it in its facilities.'

The aforementioned propeller was donated by the general commander of the Maritime Zone of the Canary Islands, Vice Admiral Francisco Jaráiz Franco – who spent his last years in Santa Cruz de Tenerife – to the then Port Works Board, on behalf of the Navy, in a ceremony held on January 16, 1980.

Pending confirmation of whether the Almeyda Military Museum has shown interest in this piece, the recovery of the propeller, which is in the deposits of the Port Authority, 'is a possibility now that there is no longer interest in a good of historical interest,' with the intention of placing it 'for public exhibition for museum purposes,' adds La Razón.

'To be left abandoned, the Navy would recover it,' as they consider the propeller to be 'an engineering work that could end up deteriorated by the natural decay of time.'

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