M/S SATRÚSTEGUI
Compañía Transatlántica Española
Advertising postcard published by the Compañía Transatlántica Española.
On December 14, 1946, the ship Explorador Iradier, commissioned by the Compañía Transmediterránea, was launched at the Elcano shipyard in Valencia. The ship made its first test trip to Palma de Mallorca on September 13, 1948, and in August 1952 it was acquired by the Compañía Transatlántica Española and renamed Satrústegui. She went on to cover the line between the Spanish ports in the Mediterranean and Venezuela, Central America and the Antilles, with calls at the port of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. In 1973, due to the loss results due to competition from the plane, the ship, with the new name Isla de Cabrera, was moored in the port of Barcelona, where on June 30 of the same year it suffered a serious fire, and on September 26, given the impossibility of repairing it, it was decided to scrap it, which was carried out in Castellón, where it had been towed.
Traveler's collection.