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Dédalo (Spanish for ''Daedalus'') was a Spanish seaplane and balloon carrier, the first of two ships of the Spanish Navy to carry this name. She entered in service in 1922 and was written off in 1936, after taking part in the Second Moroccan War, where her aircraft were instrumental to the successful landing of Franco-Spanish forces at Al Hoceima. ==History== ''Dédalo'' was originally the German merchant vessel ''Neuenfels'', built in Britain in 1901. In October 1918, towards the end of World War I, she was seized along with five other German ships in Spanish ports at the time, as reparations for Spanish ship losses to Germany's unrestricted submarine warfare during the War. ''Neuenfels'' was given the temporary name "''España No.6''", until she was transferred to the Spanish Navy in the autumn of 1921. The Spanish Naval Aeronautics had been interested in acquiring a seaplane carrier for some time, and "''España No.6''" was accordingly renamed ''Dédalo'', then spent five months in Barcelona from December 1921 to be converted into a seaplane tender at a cost of 8 million pesetas. Based in Cartagena, ''Dédalo'' participated in the Rif War until 1925, with her seaplanes carrying out bombing raids in support of the amphibious landing at Al Hoceima.〔(Hemeroteca ABC: ''Las sufridas, Heroicas alas de España'' ) 〕 After the proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic in April 1931 it became part of the Spanish Republican Navy. In April 1934 aviation history was made when Juan de la Cierva, the inventor of the autogyro, performed a perfect landing onto ''Dédalo'' with a model C. 30 autogyro registered G-ACIO, near the port of Valencia; half an hour later it took off from her deck, after a short run of just 24 metres. This was the first rotorcraft to take off and land on the deck of a ship.〔"The first ''Dedalo'' was an aircraft transportation ship and the first in the world from which an autogyro took off and landed." Naval Ship Systems Command, US: ''Naval Ship Systems Command technical news.''1966, v. 15-16, page 40〕 ''Dédalo'' was decommissioned in 1934, and was struck in April 1936,〔(Hemeroteca ABC: ''El portaeronaves Dédalo, ha sido dado de baja'' ) 〕 but the Spanish Civil War prevented her from leaving its homeport of Cartagena until 1 March 1940, when she was towed to Valencia for scrapping. 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「Spanish seaplane carrier Dédalo」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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