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The ''Castillo de Olite'' was a merchant steamship, which was sunk by the coastal defense batteries of Cartagena in the last days of the Spanish Civil War, while transporting 2,112 Spanish Nationalist troops. ==History== This ship was built in 1921 by Rotterdam Droog in the Netherlands. Her first name between 1921 and 1929 was ''Zaandijk'', and she served as a merchant ship in the Dutch company ''Solleveld Van der Meer & T.H. Van Hattum'', transporting goods to Java and Sumatra. The ship was sold and renamed ''Akedemik Paulo'' between 1929 and 1932, and then resold to ''Nederlandsch Lloyd'', which renamed it to ''Zwaterwater'', where she served between 1932 and 1936. In 1936 she was sold to the Soviet Union, where she was renamed ''Postishev'' in honor of a Ukrainian communist politician, Pavel Postyshev.〔 On 31 May 1938, she was seized in the Strait of Gibraltar by the Nationalist auxiliary cruiser ''Vicente Puchol'', while transporting a shipment of coal.〔 She was incorporated in the Nationalist Spanish Navy as the ''Castillo de Olite'', and armed with a 120 mm Vickers gun and a 57 mm Nordenfeldt gun.〔(Pérez Adán, Luis Miguel (2006). ''La Expedición sobre Cartagena y el hundimiento del Castillo Olite – Marzo de 1939'' ). Instituto Cartagenero de Investigaciones Históricas, pp. 6-8 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「SS Castillo de Olite」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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