Rafael González Echegaray

Santander, 24/9/1923 – id., 2/1/1985. Remembrance and tribute to the Center for Montañeses Studies on the 1st Centennial of its birth.

 

 

 

AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOTES

“I was born in Santander, he 24 September 1923, Mercedes day, on Lope de Vega street, and I am the second of five brothers: Carlos, Maria del Carmen, Joaquín and Ana, all also from Santander.

my father, Joaquín González Doménech, who was consul of Argentina in Santander, I had a desk on the old Méndez Núñez street, inherited from my grandfather, Candido Gonzalez, with the burden of faith and little fortune in business.

my mother, Carmen Echegaray Abascal, also santanderina, He came from an old French Basque family integrated into Spain during the Revolution and settled in Santander since the years of the first Carlist war..

I studied the first letters at nursery school Saint Teresa of Jesus, that was on Calderón street, and the baccalaureate in the Piarists, before, during and after the war.

I have two indelible memories from that time., the war itself lived intensely and on some occasions close to death, and the Santander fire, which was like a tragic blow for those of us who had been saved from the other. In both events, the flames swallowed an important part of my life..

I was a merchant marine graduated in Bilbao, after going through the Santander school, in which at some time, much later, I was a teacher, and I sailed for five years on Spanish ships in the middle of the second world war, that was not small.

I studied Law and took my exams, as is required, but I dedicated my professional activity to maritime law, and that's how I saw myself one day, almost without thinking, at the head of what was then the first shipping company in Spain: the Transatlantic Company. But living in Madrid, far from the sea and my town, and like my wife - by then I was already married to a woman from Santander and at that time I had a few children- I also felt like leaving home, With the commissioning of the last Spanish ocean liner I lowered the rig, We packed up and headed back to the terruca, as we said then.

And since then I have continued with the law of the sea and nautical problems, to whom I am still linked, with a parenthesis of six or seven years burned between the presidency of the Provincial Council (from Santander) and my government in the Canary Islands, which was almost like commanding a fleet of ships in the middle of the Atlantic.

I brought the University to Santander. I have written eleven big books on mountain history - I published the first one in 1951 with an endearing prologue by Mr. del Río (Pick)- and another six or seven that are not so. They gave me the national Virgen del Carmen award from the Presidency of the Government in the year 1963, again in 1968 and in 1977 and I have, among other minor things kept with love, the Cross of Naval Merit and the Cross of Civil Merit, both with Grand Cross category. I am a regular advisor to the Cultural Institution of Cantabria and director of its Juan de la Cosa Institute..

And for now I continue writing, always and only from the sea and ships, which is my thing”.

CURRICULUM

 

-Merchant sailor from the Bilbao Nautical School (titled in 1943).

-Officer attached to the ship Mount Corona (December 1943-July 1945).

-Officer attached to the ship Mount Orduña (October 1945-April 1946).

-Officer attached to the ship Mount Iciar (July 1946-February 1947).

-Sailor on the fishing boat Emphasizing (May-July 1947).

-Graduate in Law from the University of Oviedo (titled in June 1947).

-Member of the Corps of Municipal and Regional Prosecutors by opposition (titled in November 1947).

-Officer attached to the ship Liébana (December 1947).

-Officer at the minelayer Triton (1948-1949).

-Regional Prosecutor of Reinosa-Valdeprado (1948-1952).

-First Secretary of the Ateneo de Santander (1950-1960).

-Certified pilot (1951).

-Class member “A” from the Santander Aeroclub (1951).

-Member of the honorary rank of the Air Force (from 1951).

-County prosecutor of Ramales (1951-1952).

-Captain on the steamer Astro from the Yllera group (November-December 1952).

-Laredo County Inspector (1952-1958).

-Member of the Board of Directors of the Aero Club of Santander (1953).

-Professor of Maritime Economics at the Santander Nautical School (1953-1969)

-Deputy Director to the Presidency of the Spanish Transatlantic Company (1953-1958).

-Full Member of the Association of Average Adjusters of London (from 1953).

-County prosecutor of Castro Urdiales (1954-1958).

-Deputy General Director of the Spanish Transatlantic Company (1958-1964).

-Lawyer-legal advisor to the Association of Shipowners and Consignees of the Port of Santander (from 1964).

-Founding member (1964) and head of the Spanish Association of Breakdown Adjusters (from 1964).

-President of the Literature Section of the Ateneo de Santander (1965-1967).

-Regional Prosecutor of the San Vicente de la Barquera-Potes-Reinosa Group (1970).

-Provincial Delegate of the Ministry of Education and Science in Santander (1970-1971).

-Founder (1970) and director of the “Juan de la Cosa” Institute of Maritime and Fisheries Studies (from 1970).

-President of the Provincial Council of Santander (1971-1973).

-Attorney in Courts, IX and X Legislature (1971-1973).

-President of the “Marqués de Valdecilla” Foundation (1971-1973).

-Director of the Santander Savings Bank (1971-1973).

-Member of the Cultural Institution of Cantabria (from 1971).

-Member of the Center for Mountain Studies (from 1972).

-Promoter of the University of Santander (created in 1972), current University of Cantabria.

-Promoter of the Cantabrian Maritime Museum (1972).

-Civil Governor of the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife (1973-1974).

-Fiscal Municipal nº 1 from Santander (from 1974).

-Honorary Member of the Vizcaya Association of Merchant Navy Captains (from 1975).

-Honorary Member of the National Merchant Marine Association (from 1977).

-Corresponding academic of the Royal Academy of History (from 1977).

-Member of the Association of Spanish Shipowners (from 1977), on whose board of directors he held a seat.

-Founder (1981) and director of the “Oquendo” Group of the Institute of Naval History and Culture (from 1981).

-Honorary Member of the Institute of Columbian Studies of La Gomera (already in 1981).

-Secretary General of the Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Navigation of Santander (from 1982).

-Member of the Rosario History Institute, Argentina (from 1982).

-Member of the Board of Trustees of the Naval Museum of Madrid (from 1983).

-Honorary Member of the Royal Maritime Club of Santander (from 1984).

-Professor of Maritime Traffic at the Naval War School of the Spanish Navy.

-Director of Maritime Law courses at the Menéndez Pelayo International University and other institutions.

-Member of the Active Naval Reserve.

-Member of the Spanish Maritime Legislation Commission of the Spanish Maritime Law Association.

-Counselor of the National Company “Elcano” of the Merchant Navy.

-Member of the Belgian Nautical Research Association of Brussels.

-Miembro titular of the International Association of European Despacheurs de Amberes.

-Member of the International Naval Research Association of the USA.

-Member of the National Geographic Society of the USA.

 

AWARDS

-“Virgen del Carmen” National Award from the Presidency of the Government (1963) for the books The three “Quotes” y Shipwrecks on the coast of Cantabria, 1834-1960.

-Cross of Naval Merit (1968).

-“Virgen del Carmen” National Award from the Presidency of the Government (1969) for the books Nine ship stories y from the steam.

-Grand Cross of Naval Merit, with white badge (16-7-1972).

-“Roger de Lauria” Award from the Navy General Staff (1972) for the work “Naval life of the Spanish ships”, published in the General Navy Magazine.

-Grand Cross of the Order of Civil Merit (1974).

-National Sea Award (before “Virgen del Carmen”) of the Presidency of the Government (1978) for the books The merchant navy and maritime traffic in the Civil War y Cantabrian whalers.

-“Mountain Personality of the Year” Award, of the Santander Athenaeum, in the Geography and History section (1978).

-“Mountain Book of the Year” Award, of the Santander Athenaeum, to Cantabrian whalers (1978).

 

LITERATURE

–Fifty years of Santander steamers (1951). Prologue by José del Río Sainz.

–Hangover. By the machines (1960). Collection of articles published in the newspaper Alert of Santander in the period 1950-1955.

–The three Quotation marks. Biographical sketch of three sister ships (1962).

–Shipwrecks on the coast of Cantabria, 1834-1960 (1963).

–The Cantabrian Navy (vol. III). from the steam (1968).

–Nine ship stories (1968).

–Captains of Cantabria (1970).

–The port of Santander and the war in Africa (1859-1860) (1971). Text of the admission speech as full councilor of the Cultural Institution of Cantabria, pronounced in the Provincial Council of Santander on 18 June 1971.

–Mountain Day proclamation 1971, in Cabezón de la Sal (1972).

–The French Navy in Santander (1872-1972) (1972).

–For more worth. First centenary of the Port of Santander Board 1872-1972 (1972).

–The Consulate of Bilbao and the Vizcayan Association of Merchant Navy Captains (1976). Text of the conference given at the Historical Museum of Vizcaya on 4 October 1975.

–Shipwrecks on the coast of Cantabria (enlarged, 1976 y 2004).

–The merchant navy and maritime traffic in the civil war (1977).

–Alfonso XIII, a king and his ships (1978).

–Cantabrian whalers (1978).

–The San Martín shipyard. A century of shipbuilding (1979).

–The gale of Glory Saturday (1981). Text of the conference given on the occasion of the commemoration of the 75 anniversary of the Mutua Montañesa de Seguros, he 28 October 1981.

–A piece of Santander history. Montañesa Mutual (1981).

–The Cantabrian whaling adventure (1982). Text of the conference given on the occasion of the inauguration of the Cantabrian Maritime Museum, from Santander, he 3 April 1981.

–Three sparks of history (1982).

–Three trailers (1982).

–Stopover in Vigo (1983).

–Chronicle of the Royal Maritime Club of Santander (1984).

–From Santiago to Santander. 1895-1898 (1984).

–The port of Santander. Scraps of a chronicle (1985).

–Saltpeter. Chronicles of the sea and ships (2018). Compilation of articles published in the press and magazines.

He also left two other books unpublished.: one relating to the centenary of a shipping company and another written for the Navy Headquarters.

 

WORKS IN COLLECTIVE BOOKS

–“Holy, naval base in the second Carlist War” (II Naval Week. Series of conferences in tribute to the Spanish Navy, 1969, pp. 179-220). Collects the text of the conference given in Santoña, on the occasion of the celebration of the II Naval Week, he 9 July 1968.

–“Concha Espina and its town” (Closing events for the first centenary of Concha Espina (1869-1969), 1970, pp. 37-56). It includes the conference given on the occasion of the closing of the writer's centenary, held in the assembly hall of the Provincial Council on 19 December 1969.

–“Presentation” (Marshal Mazarrasa. Tribute edition to D. Fermin de Sojo y Lomba, first president of the Center for Montañese Studies, 1973, pp. 7-8).

–“Jose del Río, marino” (Tribute to José del Río Sáinz, “Pick”, 1974, pp. 45-60). It includes the speech given on the occasion of the obituary evening held at the Ateneo de Santander on 30 October 1965.

–“Two hundred years of naval command in Santander”, with José Luis Maruri Gregorisch (XL Anniversary of the Center for Montañese Studies, volume I, 1976, pp. 467-488). Communication contributed to the I cycle of Historical Studies of the province of Santander organized by the Center for Montañeses Studies in May 1975 on the occasion of 40 anniversary of its foundation.

–“The ships of the Spanish Navy that have carried the name of Velasco” (Luis Vicente de Velasco and Isla, 1976, pp. 71-83).

–“From candle to steam” (cap. X); “The armored Navy” (cap. XI) y “The Colonial Navy” (cap. XII) (The ship in the Spanish Navy,1981 y 1999). Work declared “useful book for the Navy”, awarded with the special prize of the Patronato de la Virgen del Carmen and with the gold medal of the same.

–“The Navy of Santander during the War of Independence” (The War of Independence (1808-1814) and its historical moment, vol. II, 1982, pp. 423-482). Text contributed to the III cycle of Historical Studies of the province of Santander organized by the Center for Montañeses Studies in October 1979.

–“Cantabria and the sea” (Cantabria, 1984).

–“A historical approach to Holy Week in Santander: ancient and modern processions (Easter week. Santander,1993, pp. 75-127). Official proclamation of Holy Week in Santander, delivered in the assembly hall of the Ateneo de Santander on 3 April 1982.

–“1898-1899. Disaster" (Santander and the Spanish-American War 1898. Col. “From Cantabria. “Recovered texts”, vol. III, 2014). Plays the chapter of the same name from the book For more worth.

WORKS IN SPECIALIZED MAGAZINES

–"He camouflage and the merchants in the last war” (General Navy Magazine, November 1947, pp. 579-585).

–“Old shipping companies. The Santanderina Navigation” (General Navy Magazine, December 1947, pp. 733-739).

–“The small powers and their naval force” (General Navy Magazine, February 1949, pp. 175-180).

–“Santander and the ships in 1949” (Mountain Economy, January 1950, pp. 20-22).

–“Merchant maritime ceremony” (General Navy Magazine, February 1950, pp. 159-164).

–“The port in January and February” (Mountain Economy, February-March 1950, pp. 16-17).

–“The port in March and April” (Mountain Economy, April 1950, pp. 16-17).

–“The port in May” (Mountain Economy, mayo 1950, pp. 16-17).

–“The port in June” (Mountain Economy, June 1950, pp. 16-17).

–“The port in July” (Mountain Economy, julio 1950, pp. 10-11).

–"Pass…" (Mountain Economy, August 1950, special commemorative issue of the centenary of the Spanish Transatlantic Company, pp. 26-29).

–“The port in August” (Mountain Economy, 15 September 1950, pp. 10-11).

–“The port in September” (Mountain Economy, 15 October 1950, pp. 10-11).

–“The port in October and November” (Mountain Economy, 15 December 1950, pp. 10-11y 13).

–“Six months of port life” (Mountain Economy, 15 of August of 1951, pp. 10-11).

–“Julio, an exceptional month” (Mountain Economy, 15 of August of 1951, pp. 11 y 15).

–“The port in the month of August” (Mountain Economy, 15 September 1951, pp. 10-11).

–“The port in the month of September” (Mountain Economy, 15 October 1951, pp. 10-11).

–“The cage sticks” (General Navy Magazine, November 1951, pp. 529-535).

–“The port in the month of October” (Mountain Economy, 15 November 1951, pp. 10-11).

–“The port in the month of November” (Mountain Economy, 15 December 1951, pp. 10-11).

–“The port movement during the year 1951” (Mountain Economy, 15 January 1952, pp. 12-13).

–“The port in the month of January” (Mountain Economy, 15 February 1952, pp. 10-11).

–“The port in the month of February. An excellent month, con 94 larger ships dispatched” (Mountain Economy, 15 March 1952, pp. 10-11).

–“Signs on board” (General Navy Magazine, April 1952, pp. 367-371).

–“The port in the month of March. The Vasco-Andaluza presented a true record figure with 15 tickets in charge of their ships” (Mountain Economy, 15 April 1952, pp. 10-11).

–“Boat things” (Course, magazine of the sea and boats, June 1952).

–“A casualty on the Navy lists” (Africa, August 1952).

–“Twilight of the Gods” (General Navy Magazine, October 1952, pp. 375-382).

-“The port in 1952. Decline in general cargo imports and mineral exports, the outstanding note of the year” (Mountain Economy, January 1953, pp. 20-21).

–“Smoke to the clouds” (General Navy Magazine, August 1953, pp. 143-153).

-“The port in 1953. Despite the universal decline in freight, “Spanish shipping businesses are maintained” (Mountain Economy, April 1954, pp. 24-27 y 14).

–“The port in the first quarter of 1954. While the threat of the crisis looms in all the ports of the world, In our country, freight rates remained at acceptable figures” (Mountain Economy, June 1954, pp. 18-20).

–“The port in the second quarter of the year 1954. After many years of absence, “The United States Navy returns to our port.” (Mountain Economy, September 1954, pp. 24-26).

–“Maritime communications in Spanish Africa” (Africa, October 1954, pp. 454-456).

–“The port in the third quarter of the year 1954. The rise in freight rates and the increase in the price of second-hand vessels, “It was the most outstanding thing.” (Mountain Economy, December 1954, pp. 14-16 y 28).

–“Los Rivers Argentines” (General Navy Magazine, January 1955, pp. 135-141).

–“The port in the fourth quarter of 1954. In the last quarter of the year the freight index increased significantly” (Mountain Economy, March 1955, pp. 14-16).

–“The port in the first quarter of the year 1955. “Oil traffic takes first place in the statistics of the movement of our port” (Mountain Economy, June 1955, pp. 26-28).

–“The port in the second quarter of 1955” (Mountain Economy, September 1955, pp. 18-19).

–“Keels and queens” (General Navy Magazine, October 1955, pp. 412-422).

–“The Spanish oil fleet” (General Navy Magazine, February 1956, pp. 211-220).

–“Three generations afloat” (General Navy Magazine, June 1956, pp. 708-711).

–“Garibaldi” (General Navy Magazine, August 1956, pp. 142-150).

–“I go through the history of the series County” (General Navy Magazine, January 1958, pp. 56-60).

–“There are still Auxiliary cruiser” (General Navy Magazine, January 1959, pp. 52-60).

–“Ten Spanish transports in 1896” (General Navy Magazine, July-August 1960, pp. 147-158).

–“The three cruises overseas” (General Navy Magazine, April 1961, pp. 559-569).

–“The nine cruises of the Transatlantic” (General Navy Magazine, February 1962, pp. 185-199).

–“Nothing less than 47 cruises” (General Navy Magazine, January 1963, pp. 3-27).

–“Stumbles in spring” (Cantabria, Mountain Home magazine, September 1963).

–“Los santos transport” (General Navy Magazine, January 1964, pp. 59-72).

–“Jose del Río, sailor and poet (Cantabria, Mountain Home magazine, March 1964).

–“The Merchant Navy in War (1936-1939)” (Office, April 1964).

–“The Cyreneans of repatriation” (General Navy Magazine, August-September 1964, pp. 184-198).

–“Fifty-two destroyers back found” (General Navy Magazine, August-September 1965, pp. 139-155).

–“A book and a boat” (Cantabria, Mountain Home magazine, March 1966. Already published before in Alert, 7 December 1965).

–“Provisional gray” (General Navy Magazine, April 1966, pp. 453-474).

–“The Cymbels” (General Navy Magazine, December 1966, pp. 612-626).

–“The Santander registration plate” (Office, ¿1966?. Reproduced in Saltpeter, chronicle of the sea and ships, 2018, pp. 349-352).

–“The ships on the night the fire devastated Santander” (¿?, ¿1966? The title was given to him by Juan Peña de Berrazueta when he published it in Saltpeter, chronicles of the sea and ships, 2018, pp. 21-26).

–"Sweet Cunarders “Spanish” (General Navy Magazine, June 1967, pp. 679-691).

–“On the centenary of the Pacific campaign. transportation Matías Cousiño” (General Navy Magazine, October 1967, pp. 365-376).

–“The fringes in front” (General Navy Magazine, February 1968, pp. 143-170).

–“The impossible war: 1898” (General Navy Magazine, November 1968, pp. 483-501).

–“Neutral losses in the Spanish war” (unpublished having been censored by the General Navy Magazine in April 1969).

–“The ships that bore the name of Mendez Núñez” (General Navy Magazine, August-September 1969, pp. 179-195).

–“The propeller schooners” (General Navy Magazine, November 1970, pp. 497-507).

–“Sixty-two gunboats for the subtle Navy (Filipinas, 1860-1900)” (General Navy Magazine, April 1971, pp. 385-400).

–“Souvenirs of Lepanto on the official ship list” (General Navy Magazine, October 1971, pp. 366-380).

–“The port of Santander and the war in Africa” (unpublished having been censored by the General Navy Magazine in December 1971).

–"Offering", tribute to Gerardo Diego (Peña Labra, poetry sheets nº 4, summer 1972, p. 1).

–“Naval life of the Spanish ships” (General Navy Magazine, November 1972, pp. 451-466).

–“Thirty years later. “Spain and submarine warfare” (General Navy Magazine, April 1973, pp. 373-386).

–“Jose del Río, the man" (Peña Labra, poetry sheets nº 7, primavera 1973, pp. 26-27).

–“The four notices” (General Navy Magazine, October 1973, pp. 321-334).

–“Bitter Suez (The honor of a squad)” (General Navy Magazine, February 1974, pp. 135-156).

–“Thirty years later. The other Spanish losses in the Second World War” (General Navy Magazine, December 1974, pp. 551-562).

–“The Spanish Navy in Cochinchina” (General Navy Magazine, julio 1975, pp. 3-18).

–“A century after the Carlist War. “The submarine cable and communications strategy” (General Navy Magazine, January 1976, pp. 3-14).

–“The frigate Asturias” (General Navy Magazine, March 1976, pp. 255-266).

–“Sell prestige” (General Navy Magazine, November 1976, pp. 511-526).

–“The gray couples” (General Navy Magazine, January 1977, pp. 17-31).

–“Forty years ago. The sinking of the battleship Spain” (General Navy Magazine, April 1977, pp. 413-425).

–“Unborn of 98” (General Navy Magazine, December 1977, pp. 613-628).

–“Presentation” (Yearbook of the “Juan de la Cosa” Institute of Maritime Studies, vol. I, 1977, p. 9).

–“The first postal steamers from Santander to Havana” (Yearbook of the “Juan de la Cosa” Institute of Maritime Studies, vol. I, 1977, pp. 165-178).

–“Of the Carlist wars. The naval blockade (General Navy Magazine, June 1978, pp. 643-656).

–"Miscellany (…) 19.999.- Transformation" (General Navy Magazine, December 1978, p. 580).

–"The Pacific and Santander” (Yearbook of the “Juan de la Cosa” Institute of Maritime Studies, vol. II, 1978, pp. 141-152).

–“The unusual fleet of the Marquis del Campo” (General Navy Magazine, January 1979, pp. 3-16).

–“More was lost in Cuba…” (General Navy Magazine, June 1979, pp. 603-613).

–“Spain and the Confederate Navy” (General Navy Magazine, October 1979, pp. 293-304).

–"Miscellany (…) 20.280.- “Faithful pastry chef” (General Navy Magazine, December 1979, p. 618).

–“The largest ship in the world in Santander” (Yearbook of the “Juan de la Cosa” Institute of Maritime Studies, vol. III, 1979-80, pp. 165-177).

–"Always Pizarro” (General Navy Magazine, February 1980, pp. 171-179).

–"Miscellany (…) 20.411.- “Crowns” (General Navy Magazine, June 1980, p. 697).

–"Miscellany (…) 20.436.- “Marine heraldry” (General Navy Magazine, julio 1980, pp. 55-56).

–“When the kings arrive from Italy” (General Navy Magazine, August 1980, pp. 15-26).

–"Miscellany (…) 20.460.- “Marine heraldry” (General Navy Magazine, September 1980, p. 205).

–"Miscellany. 20.503.- The O” (General Navy Magazine, November 1980, p. 487).

–"Miscellany (…) 20.513.- Naval calendar (General Navy Magazine, November 1980, p. 492).

–"Miscellany (…) 20.521.- Blues” (General Navy Magazine, November 1980, pp. 494-495).

–“The afterlife of our '98 cruises” (General Navy Magazine, December 1980, pp. 565-579).

–"Miscellany (…) 20.542.- Astronomical heraldry (General Navy Magazine, December 1980, pp. 639-640).

–"Miscellany (…) 20.587.- Insignia” (General Navy Magazine, February 1981, pp. 213-214).

–"Miscellany (…) 20.611.- Shipwrecks” (General Navy Magazine, March 1981, pp. 381-382).

–“The ships of Mexico” (General Navy Magazine, abril1981, pp. 437-449).

–"Miscellany (…) 20.633.- “Stateless flags” (General Navy Magazine, April 1981, p. 513).

–"Miscellany (…) 20.680.- Torrotito” (General Navy Magazine, June 1981, pp. 796-797).

–"Miscellany (…) 20.701.- Greeting" (General Navy Magazine, julio 1981, p. 87).

–“The last company in the Philippines” (General Navy Magazine, August 1981, pp. 47-59).

–"Miscellany (…) 20.732.- Uniforms” (General Navy Magazine, September 1981, p. 221).

–“The cruise Blas de Lezo” (General Navy Magazine, October 1981, pp. 293-303).

–"Miscellany (…) 20.752.- Chimneys" (General Navy Magazine, October 1981, p. 358).

–"Miscellany (…) 20.760.- He Vita” (General Navy Magazine, October 1981, pp. 361-362).

–"Miscellany (…) 20.766.- Regulation" (General Navy Magazine, October 1981, p. 363).

–"Miscellany (…) 20.787.- Uniforms” (General Navy Magazine, November 1981, p. 502).

–"Miscellany (…) 20.788.- Make-up" (General Navy Magazine, November 1981, p. 502).

–"Miscellany (…) 20.797.- Registrations” (General Navy Magazine, December 1981, p. 656).

–"Miscellany (…) 20.802.- Protectorate" (General Navy Magazine, December 1981, p. 658).

–“The loss of the first Cantabria” (Yearbook of the “Juan de la Cosa” Institute of Maritime Studies, vol. IV, 1981-82, pp. 117-131).

–"Miscellany (…) 20.838.- Hunger" (General Navy Magazine, January 1982, pp. 74-75).

–“The Carolinas” (General Navy Magazine, February 1982, pp. 125-134).

–"Miscellany (…) 20.870.- “Miseries” (General Navy Magazine, March 1982, pp. 343-344).

–"Miscellany (…) 20.941.- “English mail” (General Navy Magazine, June 1982, p. 783).

–"Miscellany (…) 20.944.- Serial names (General Navy Magazine, June 1982, p. 784).

–"Miscellany (…) 20.968.- Anglo-Spanish” (General Navy Magazine, julio 1982, p. 97).

–"Miscellany (…) 20.975.- Crowned Passwords” (General Navy Magazine, julio 1982, p. 100).

–“An auxiliary cruise in the English Channel” (General Navy Magazine, August-September 1982, pp. 119-133).

–"Miscellany (…) 20.994.- “Madridistas” (General Navy Magazine, October 1982, p. 267).

–"Miscellany (…) 21.002.- Sombrero” (General Navy Magazine, October 1982, p. 270).

–"Miscellany (…) 21.007.- Endowments” (General Navy Magazine, October 1982, p. 272).

–"Miscellany. 21.017.- Passwords” (General Navy Magazine, November 1982, p. 449).

–"Miscellany (…) 21.097.- Names of oil tankers (General Navy Magazine, February 1983, pp. 269-270).

–"Miscellany (…) 21.107.- “Love to the tables” (General Navy Magazine, February 1983, p. 274).

–"Miscellany (…) 21.116.- Accuracy" (General Navy Magazine, February 1983, p. 278).

–"Miscellany (…) 21.163.- Biscay Mountains” (General Navy Magazine, April 1983, p. 596).

–"Miscellany (…) 21.177.- you take them out, the first thing” (General Navy Magazine, June 1983, pp. 974-975).

–"Miscellany (…) 21.182.- Uniformity" (General Navy Magazine, June 1983, p. 977).

–“The shipyards of Antonio López” (Naval History Magazine nº 2, 1983, pp. 91-106).

–"Miscellany (…) 21.203.- “Early applicants” (General Navy Magazine, julio 1983, p. 111).

–"Miscellany (…) 21.211.- Broken fountain” (General Navy Magazine, julio 1983, p. 115).

–"He Queen Victoria Eugenie” (General Navy Magazine, August-September 1983, pp. 283-296).

–"Miscellany (…) 21.232.- “Alpha and omega” (General Navy Magazine, October 1983, p. 495).

–"Miscellany (…) 21.236.- “Good manners” (General Navy Magazine, October 1983, pp. 496-497).

–"Miscellany (…) 21.260.- The tiara and the anchor (General Navy Magazine, November 1983, p. 671).

–"Miscellany (…) 21.271.- “Around the world in six years” (General Navy Magazine, November 1983, p. 675).

–"Miscellany (…) 21.290.- Guarnizo ships… by steam” (General Navy Magazine, December 1983, pp. 845-846).

–"Miscellany (…) 21.302.- End of the patriot (General Navy Magazine, December 1983, pp. 850-851).

–"Miscellany (…) 21.328.- Merchants with pennant (General Navy Magazine, February 1984, pp. 238-239).

–"Miscellany (…) 21.365.- Yellow" (General Navy Magazine, March 1984, p. 397).

–"Miscellany (…) 21.379.- Sleepwalker" (General Navy Magazine, March 1984, p. 401).

–"Miscellany (…) 21.416.- “Sightseeing cruises” (General Navy Magazine, mayo 1984, p. 797).

–"Miscellany (…) 21.418.- “Cantabrian route” (General Navy Magazine, June 1984, p. 940).

–"Miscellany (…) 21.423.- The old seas (General Navy Magazine, June 1984, p. 943).

–“Soviet losses in the Spanish war” (Naval History Magazine nº 7, 1984, pp. 25-42).

–"Miscellany (…) 21.451.- Fine arts" (General Navy Magazine, julio 1984, p. 96).

–“Three Spanish transports in the Argentine Navy” (General Navy Magazine, August-September 1984, pp. 227-235).

–"Miscellany (…) 21.457.- “Cornets” (General Navy Magazine, October 1984, p. 389).

–"Miscellany (…) 21.505.- Merchant with bulges” (General Navy Magazine, December 1984, p. 706).

–"Miscellany (…) 21.531.- Requetés" (General Navy Magazine, February 1985, p. 251).

–"Miscellany (…) 21.534.- to your land, even if it's on one leg" (General Navy Magazine, February 1985, pp. 254-255).

–“The Soviet Passenger Fleet” (General Navy Magazine, March 1985, pp. 355-359).

(Pagination has been expressed in as many cases as possible.. We know that other collaborations by Rafael González Echegaray appeared in Maritime Life (1952-54), Course, magazine of the sea and boats (1953-55), Nautilus (1955-56), Office (1958-1976), Economic News (1962), The Belgian Shiplover (1963-68), A lighthouse (1965-66), VOMM (1972), History and Life (1977), Fishing Spain (1977) y Metallurgy and Electricity (¿?-¿?). It would be a great achievement to locate such works and complete with them the provisional list that is recorded.).

 

 

ARTICLES IN THE PRESS

–“Two generations of emails, back found” (Alert, February 1950).

–“Eight white twins: the A” (Alert, March 1950).

–“To the sea, steel" (Alert, April 1950).

–"He Triton” (Alert, April 1950).

–“In lack of docks” (Alert, 27 April 1950).

–“The first bedbug” (Alert, May 1950).

–"April" (Alert, May 1950).

–“The return of Theseus” (Alert, June 1950).

–“Cape Spartel” (Alert, June 1950).

–“The last voyage of the Carlos Bertrand” (Alert, June 1950).

–"He's back Finch” (Alert, 11 July 1950).

–“Fullness of tanks” (Alert, july 1950).

–“The fourth Liberty” (Alert, july 1950).

–“The journeys of the mineral” (Alert, August of 1950).

–“Northwest” (Alert, August of 1950).

–“The Benjamins of the Fleet: the B” (Alert, August of 1950).

–“Return” (Alert, September 1950).

–“The series F” (Alert, September 1950).

–“Macandros” (Alert, September 1950).

–“The dredgers” (Alert, october 1950).

–“The tugboat” (Alert, october 1950).

–"A santa further" (Alert, 13 October 1950. It was reproduced in Hangover, pp. 147-148, with the title “The codfish”).

–“I: "that of sad destinies" (Alert, october 1950).

–“Last patches” (Alert, November 1950).

–“Our transatlantic” (Alert, 19 November 1950. It was reproduced in Hangover, pp. 71-73,with the title “The vapors of López”).

–“Ghost ships” (Alert, November 1950).

–“The Canadians” (Alert, 8 December 1950).

–“Torras y Bages” (Alert, 17 December 1950).

–“A find” (Alert, December 1950).

–“Breakdowns” (Alert, 30 December 1950).

–"December: times of home” (Alert, December 1950).

–“Los flush” (Alert, January 1951).

–“Fleet mishaps” (Alert, January 1951).

–“Block pier” (Alert, February 1951).

–“Castles of Spain” (Alert, February 1951).

–"February" (Alert, February 1951).

–“The first German flag that has entered our port” (Alert, 10 March 1951).

–“The big three of cabotage” (Alert, March 1951).

–“Ships of Bruges” (Alert, March 1951).

–“International fair” (Alert, March 1951).

–“Partner change” (Alert, April 1951).

–“The ship that has arrived with wheat” (Alert, 18 April 1951).

–"False alarm" (Alert, April 1951).

–“Flying Dutchmen: the O” (Alert, April 1951).

–“The obituary of Moncada Castle” (Alert, April 1951).

–“Litany of coastal people” (Alert, May 1951).

–“Violin bows” (Alert, May 1951).

–“The first Peña” (Alert, June 1951).

–“More things from Finch” (Alert, 26 June 1951).

–“Buoys” (Alert, july 1951).

–"He Calvo if you have untied: Alleluia" (Alert, july 1951).

–“New captain” (Alert, july 1951).

–“¿Liberty o Victory?” (Alert, 24 July 1951).

–“Julio” (Alert, july 1951).

–“More standard boats” (Alert, 7 of August of 1951. It was reproduced in Hangover, pp. 247-249, under the title “Series boats”, with some deletions).

–“Meditation on the loss of Guadalest Castle” (Alert, August of 1951).

–"August" (Alert, August of 1951).

–“A Pinillos engine” (Alert, September 1951).

–"He Santiago Lopez, attempted suicide (Alert, September 1951).

–“A fruit fleet” (Alert, 27 September 1951).

–“A loading dock disappears” (Alert, october 1951).

–"He Pena Rocias” (Alert, october 1951).

–“Yachting British" (Alert, october 1951).

–“The arrival of Centaurus” (Alert, 31 October 1951).

–“Another coastal: he market” (Alert, 8 November 1951).

–"He Shipyard "it's going down" (Alert, November 1951).

–“Strange flags in our waters” (Alert, 21 November 1951).

–“Andante” (Alert, November 1951).

–“The end of Miera River” (Alert, December 1951).

–“Four ships in the series N” (Alert, December 1951).

–“The biceps of the Merchant Navy” (Alert, 5 January 1952).

–“The accident of Osthav promised us a new case of naval surgery. The 'sewing' of boats is almost a common thing today" (Alert, 9 January 1952).

–“Rescue tugs” (Alert, January 1952).

–“The return of the old passwords continues” (Alert, 10 February 1952).

–“The miner Neptune in our port (Alert, 13 February 1952).

–“The youngest of the Spanish merchant fleet, in Santander. “A coaster with passenger cabins” (Alert, 20 February 1952).

–“Convoy to the Indies” (Alert, February 1952).

–“Yachts are also lost” (Alert, February 1952).

–“Submersibles of Spain” (Alert, 6 March 1952).

–“The cranes” (Alert, March 1952).

–“Schools” (Alert, March 1952).

–“The runners of the north” (Alert, April 1952).

–"He Empress of Australia” (Alert, April 1952).

–“Five gunboats from the new series of eight have already been in Santander” (Alert, 30 April 1952).

–"Latest camp” (Alert, May 1952).

–“Seas up” (Alert, May 1952).

–“Bremen Freighters” (Alert, 30 July 1952).

–“The failed blue ribbon: that of Flanders” (Alert, 10 of August of 1952).

–"The beautiful it shows a little” (Alert, 15 of August of 1952).

–“Santander” (Alert, August of 1952).

–“There is already a new Maasdam but we will not see it in Santander” (Alert, 9 September 1952).

–“From war to peace: Astiluz” (Alert, September 1952).

–"Midway" (Alert, September 1952).

–"He Pueyrredon who is going to visit our port” (Alert, 24 September 1952).

–“Vapors of the Pacific” (Alert, September 1952).

–"The Royal Navy” (Alert, September 1952).

–“The three best cargo ships in all of Spain are from Santander” (Alert, 18 October 1952. It was reproduced in Hangover, pp. 137-138,with the title “Alta” and the wrong date of February 1953).

–“The last action” (Alert, october 1952).

–“Foreign pawns” (Alert, october 1952).

–“Going downhill” (Alert, November 1952).

–“laughs “German” (Alert, 13 November 1952).

–“Two gifts from kings” (Alert, 8 January 1953).

–“Old print” (Alert, January 1953).

–"He Empress of Canada He was in Santander when it was called Duchess of Richmond” (Alert, 28 January 1953).

–“Sixteen ocean liners have dramatically disappeared so far this century.”. The Spanish Tordesillas Castle “He has been one of the victims of the terrible storm these days in the North Sea” (Alert, 3 February 1953).

–“When the North Sea recovers what Holland has taken from it” (Alert, 6 February 1953).

–“The cross of Valdemar” (Alert, February 1953).

–“The ship-advertisement Blue coral” (Alert, 7 March 1953).

–“First courtesy visit from the English squadron since the end of the war” (Alert, 18 March 1953).

–"Return" (Alert, March 1953).

–“Zarabanda of monasteries on the arrival of Guadalupe” (Alert, 11 April 1953).

–“Two ships afloat” (Alert, April 1953).

–“Where mention is made of the largest of our ships” (Alert, May 1953).

–"He Matienzo vive” (Alert, May 1953).

–“Hansa Naos” (Alert, May 1953).

–“Fog Blocking” (Alert, july 1953).

–“Relics” (Alert, july 1953).

–“The return of the Germans” (Alert, july 1953).

–“Traces of the fog” (Alert, july 1953).

–“Cabos from Cantabria” (Alert, july 1953).

–“He has lost the Douro in the Strait of Gibraltar” (Yugo, 7 of August of 1953).

–“Los tramps eternal” (Alert, September 1953).

–“Liberia in our waters” (Alert, September 1953).

–“Boats of America” (Alert, october 1953).

–“The sale of the jeep” (Alert, october 1953).

–“Carboneros” (Alert, December 1953).

–"The ships of the Storm” (Alert, December 1953).

–“Stories of graduates” (Alert, January 1954).

–"Of the exclaustrated” (Alert, January 1954).

–“Inshore fishing” (Alert, January 1954).

–"He Marquis of Triano, last unit built in the Bilbao shipyards, "He entered our port on Sunday." (Alert, 23 February 1954).

–“Drago versus Douro” (Alert, February 1954).

–“The largest merchant ship built in Spain has been delivered” (Alert, 24 March 1954).

–“The whole sea with him Sorri's face” (Alert, March 1954).

–“The catastrophe of Bennington “He has a lot of antecedents.” (Balearics, 5 June 1954).

–“New oil tankers in Santander” (Alert, 3 July 1954).

–"The Santander Shipping “It owns the two largest oil tankers in the world.” (Alert, 14 July 1954).

–“Transmigration of rivers” (Alert, july 1954).

–“Sailing schools” (Alert, july 1954).

–“The fruit bowl The Mancha entered our port yesterday. “It is one of the most recent constructions of the national fleet” (Alert, 30 July 1954).

–“Santander” (Alert, August of 1954).

–“Three-decker ship” (Alert, August of 1954).

–“Two stacked” (Alert, August of 1954).

–“Stopover at a funeral” (Alert, December 1954).

–“The killer dredge is moored in Santander” (Alert, 26 December 1954).

–“A Chinese ship is going to dock in our port” (Alert, 21 April 1955).

–“Guarnizo loses its last keel” (Alert, May 1955).

–“Things of the Rita” (Alert, july 1955).

–"He Tagus River is the only one Liberty español” (Alert, 7 of August of 1955. It was reproduced in Hangover, pp. 124-125,under the title “And Liberty”, although with some deletions and carrying the erroneous date of October 1952).

–“A casualty” (Alert, August of 1955).

–“A new Reina “He is going to make regular trips to Santander” (Alert, 30 of August of 1955).

–“An Egyptian ship in the port of Santander” (Alert, 10 October 1955).

–“L´Aventure was called Braid "when I was English" (Alert, 28 October 1955).

–“He rose again” (Alert, November 1955).

–"Other Puente” (Alert, December 1955).

–“A memory afloat” (Alert, December 1955).

–“Santander, rock boat, when passing through its waters, maritime concerns” (Monday's Official Sheet, 23 May 1960, extraordinary supplement for the 25 newspaper anniversary, p. 15).

–“The tragedy of hawthorn, “the biggest disaster in recent centuries on our coasts” (Alert, 24 December 1960).

–"He Mina Mary: “a tireless laborer of the sea” (Alert, 18 February 1961).

–"He The Sands, “last word of the Spanish freighters” (Alert, 22 February 1961).

–"He Galdacan, “the first non-oil tank built in Spain” (Alert, 1 March 1961).

–"He Valmar “he lived his last four thousand miles from Venezuela to Astillero” (Alert, 8 March 1961).

–“The new Spanish oil tanker Cádiz bay has 32.000 tons of dead weight (Alert, 23 March 1961).

–"He Corrales, that has come to die, “It was a movie ship.” (Alert, 26 May 1961).

–“Don Antonio Cuervas-Mons, endearing figure of the Cantabrian Navy, has died” (Alert, 13 December 1961).

–“The march of time. A ship from the series is being scrapped in Bilbao Santander” (Alert, 13 December 1961).

–“French submarines are nothing new in our port” (Alert, 12 June 1962).

–“The transatlantic Rangitiki "He arrives to die today in Santander" (Alert, 26 July 1962).

–"He Venezuela” (¿?, 1962. The title was given to him by Juan Peña de Berrazueta when he published it in Saltpeter, chronicles of the sea and ships, pp. 215-217).

–“The gang Somo” (¿?, ¿1962? The title was given to him by Juan Peña de Berrazueta when he published it in Saltpeter, chronicles of the sea and ships, pp. 218-220).

–“The third Scharnhorst arrives at our port today” (Alert, 25 July 1963).

–“The old man Pena Cabarga” (Alert, 29 December 1963).

–“How could you lose the Montjuich Castle?” (Alert, 2 January 1964).

–“José del Río's last trip” (Alert, 1 February 1964).

–“Swedish Rhapsody” (Alert, 19 April 1964).

–“A new Santander "on the waves" (Alert, 19 May 1964).

–“Apart from the tragedy of Bonifaz, “half a century of catastrophic attacks on Santander enrollment.” (Alert, 14 July 1964).

–"He Devonian, from troop transport to passenger ship” (Alert, 5 September 1964).

–“The first steamship that entered our port was the Liverpool. Tonnage regatta along 125 years I” (Alert, 24 September 1964).

–“The Dutch ocean liner To state, the largest ship entered our port. Tonnage regatta along 125 years II” (Alert, 25 September 1964).

–"He Queen Governor, first warship that entered our port. Tonnage regatta along 125 years III” (Alert, 30 September 1964).

–“The English battleship Royal Oak, the largest warship arrived in Santander. Tonnage regatta along 125 years, y IV” (Alert, 2 October 1964).

–“Requiem for a steamer: he Pena Rocias, heroic school of captains and pilots (Alert, 1 January 1965).

–"He Mount of Hope, Before being a fruit bowl, it was a US warship.” (Alert, 22 January 1965).

–"Does 50 years that the Alfonso XIII “it sank in our bay” (Alert, 14 February 1965).

–“The visits of the German Navy to Santander” (Alert, 19 October 1965).

–“The fourth Sardinero “It is the largest ship in Spain” (Alert, 24 November 1965).

–“A book and a boat” (Alert, 7 December 1965).

–“The loss of Mount Palomares technically inexplicable (Alert, 14 January 1966).

–"Three Alert in the Spanish Navy” (Alert, 1 April 1966).

–"That Gripsholm who repatriated prisoners. Respected by all, “he sailed distributing the consolation of his cargoes.” (Alert, 21 April 1966).

–“Another old horse from the license plate is dying in Parayas, he Maria Elena” (Alert, 11 May 1966).

–“Goodbye to the Solía ​​estuary. The bridge from Astillero to Pontejos closes a long and glorious chapter in the seafaring history of Cantabria” (Alert, 28 May 1966).

–“Submarines in the bay” (Alert, 11 June 1966).

–“Sailboats in the bay” (Alert, 24 of August of 1966).

–“An old man in the sun. From transatlantic to Correíllo passing through Alhucemas” (Alert, 16 September 1966).

–“The first northwest and the last Warms up” (Alert, 12 October 1966).

–"Here comes a ship of 48.000 tons” (Alert, 12 November 1966).

–“As for that Highlander what has been in the news these days. A Trafalgar ship, a Filipino courier and a French dredge.” (Alert, 11 April 1967).

–"Three Besaya River in the mountainous naval registry” (Alert, 20 May 1967).

–“Russian ships in Santander” (Alert, 16 September 1967).

–"Of the Ason River in the naval registry of Santander” (Alert, 12 December 1967).

–“Gentlemen travelers: to the train” (ABC, August of 1968).

–“The romantic Navy” (ABC, 5 of August of 1982).

–“The steam is gone” (¿?. Reproduced in Saltpeter, chronicle of the sea and ships, 2018, pp. 191-194).

–“Two months of sun and light” (¿?. Juan Peña de Berrazueta gave this title when he published it in Saltpeter, chronicle of the sea and ships, 2018, pp. 337-338).

(It is known that Rafael González Echegaray also collaborated with the newspapers National Solidarity from Barcelona, The Watcher, Spanish maritime journal from Barcelona, y The Spanish Post-The Basque People from Bilbao).

 

 

OTHERS

–Boats, text for the hand program of an exhibition by the naval modeller Francisco García Marín (Savings Bank of Santander and Cantabria, 1 a 12 February 1983).

 

TRANSLATIONS

–aircraft carrier, the master weapon, de Donald Macintyre (1976).

 

 

 

 

 

 

RAFAEL GONZÁLEZ ECHEGARAY IN THE MEMORY OF THE C.E.M.

FRANCISCO GUTIÉRREZ DÍAZ

President of the Center for Mountain Studies

Rafael was never able to participate in the day-to-day life of the Center for Montañeses Studies, unlike his brothers María del Carmen and Joaquín, true bastions of the association for several decades. She even became director of the magazine Altamira in those years 80 y 90 of the 20th century that were not exactly easy for the Center, and he to preside over it between 1977 y 1985, filling a brilliant stage of opening to the international academic world through conferences as transcendent as those that dealt with Santander and the New World, The War of Independence (1808-1814) and its historical moment o Population and society in Cantabrian Spain during the 17th century.

Rafael's situation was different.. Your life circumstances, how dynamic and changeable they always presented themselves and how high responsibilities they entailed, prevented him from physically moving around the house. But his vocation as a historian, his very deep knowledge about the sea, its ships and its people, which were evidently exhaustive with regard to Cantabria, They were realities that could not help but make him feel fully identified with this worthy Center..

And he gave full proof of this., especially during his time as president of the Santander Provincial Council (1971-73). one of them, without a doubt the most important for the institution, was to give him a headquarters in line with the dignity that his career and merits demanded.. Indeed, having enjoyed for more than a quarter of a century of comfortable rooms located in the same Provincial Palace of Puerto Chico (missing today), the Center was displaced in 1968, file and library included, to an apartment on Hernán Cortés street nº 57, that did not even remotely meet the necessary conditions for the normal development of its activities. Well then, with commendable diligence the new president (named the 2 February 1971) sent a letter 1 April to the association, expressing itself in the following terms:

“This Presidency, as a sign of deference and appreciation towards that prestigious institution, has the purpose of offering you the premises located on the 3rd floor of this Provincial Palace, which are indicated in the attached plan, so that they are installed in them with the proper conditions of comfort. Before proceeding to carry out this project, the Corporation is interested in knowing the opinion of that Center on the matter., and in your case, the acquiescence of its members to carry out the transfer”.

Rafael González Echegaray behaved with such generosity and elegance. The offer included three large adjoining spaces: the western one was to house the archive and bibliographic repository, the second the meeting and conference room, the third the Secretary's office. Speed ​​and efficiency were combined when carrying out the transfer, and even the Provincial Council of that time extended its largesse to the acquisition of new furniture intended to improve the equipment of the Center.

In March of that same 1971 a volume of the magazine had appeared Altamira after four years of editorial hiatus. the day 23 The president sent a loving letter of congratulations to Francisco Ignacio de Cáceres, brand new person responsible for the publication, in which, with his usual simplicity and cordiality, he said that he found her “terrific” and added: “I hope you are encouraged to publish it more frequently”. Quite a stimulus, coming the phrase from whom it came.

It is not strange that, for what has been said and for other attentions no less significant, The grateful Work Board of the Center for Montañeses Studies would like to honor as much as possible such a competent authority and such a good friend.. So, in 27 July 1972 unanimously agreed to congratulate him after learning that he had been awarded the great cross of naval merit, “which comes to recognize the great work of V. E. “as far as issues of the Sea are concerned”. And in an intimate ceremony held at the beginning of August, Fernando Barreda and Ferrer de la Vega, president of the Center, imposed on Rafael the medal of the same; another of the González Echegaray brothers who officially entered the veteran institution.

It was also the initiative of such an active authority to entrust the Labor Board with developing the projects to equip the nascent University of Santander (today from Cantabria) of its corresponding shield. The resulting proposals were presented to the Management Commission in charge of processing the creation of the university framework, which agreed to 17 May 1973 thank the Center for its collaboration.

And when he wanted to pay tribute to his already deceased first president, Fermin de Sojo y Lomba, with the publication of the monograph on Marshal Mazarrasa that said gentleman left unpublished, Rafael's unconditional support dispelled difficulties and solved problems. So, the day 9 June 1973 The volume was presented at an event in which the presidents of the Provincial Council and the Center gave speeches., and a conference by the book's prologue, José Simon Cabarga.

But let us not think that the relations between the Santander historian and the institution in question were limited to the “presidential” era of the former.. Although marked by discontinuity in time, they occurred again and again. I will give only three examples:

In May 1974 commemorated the Center for Montañeses Studies, by holding an important academic symposium, he 40 anniversary of its foundation. Rafael presented a communication to this congress, made together with another unforgettable partner of the association, José Luis Maruri Gregorisch, which was titled “Two hundred years of naval command in Santander”. It would be edited later, along with the rest of the presentations and collaborations given by accredited experts and scholars in those memorable days..

He 15 December 1978, The Center dedicated a heartfelt tribute - with a banquet included- to one of its oldest members, more involved and of better pedigree: José Simon Cabarga. And there were Mª del Carmen, Joaquin (then president of the institution) and Rafael González Echegaray, this one located in the food in front of the person being entertained. with them, many of the “unconditional” members of that time: Mario García-Oliva Pérez, Jose Luis Casado Soto, José Uzcudun Pérez de la Riva, the P. Patricio Guerin Betts, Arturo de la Lama Ruiz-Escajadillo, Jose Arias Corcho, Francisco Saez Picazo, Maria Ealo de Sá, Manuel Vaquerizo Gil, Matilda Camus, Amada Ortiz Mier, Fernando Gomarín Guirado, etc.

And one last note: In the Center's memory corresponding to that year 1978, which was published in volume XLI of Altamira, the following news was given: “D. Rafael González Echegaray, for the third time, has obtained the Virgen del Carmen National Award (currently Prize of the Sea) for his works The Merchant Navy and maritime traffic in the Civil War y Cantabrian whalers”.

I don't keep shuffling papers because they would give me new news and I would go on too long.. It is enough with what has been mentioned so far to record the always heartfelt and affectionate relationship of the great Santander native whom we remember today with the Center for Montañeses Studies. In the history of the same, Rafael and his brothers will forever remain fundamental pillars and examples to imitate..

(This intervention was read at the tribute to Rafael González Echegaray held at the Santander Maritime Museum on 26 May 2016, and was published in the brochure Remembering Rafael González Echegaray edited by the Association of Friends of the Cantabrian Maritime Museum).

 

 

 

 

 

 

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