SS Cantabria (1919)

Cantabria sinking, photographed from the Nationalist cruiser Nadir
History
Spain
Name	1919: War Chief 1919: Alfonso Pérez 1937: Cantabria
Owner	1919: UK Shipping Controller 1919: AF Pérez 1938: A Zubizarreta[1]
Operator	1919: Raeburn & Vérel, Glasgow 1938: Dept de Nav, Santander
Port of registry	Santander
Builder	J Coughlan & Sons, Vancouver
Launched	19 August 1918
Completed	February 1919
Identification	code letters HBNP (until 1933) call sign EAAL (by 1934)
Fate	sunk by gunfire, 2 November 1938
General characteristics
Tonnage	5,743 GRT, 4,180 NRT
Length	410.5 ft (125.1 m)
Beam	54.1 ft (16.5 m)
Depth	27.5 ft (8.4 m)
Decks	2
Installed power	by 1926: 532 NHP
Propulsion	1919: steam turbine by 1926: triple-expansion engine
Speed	8–10 knots (15–19 km/h)
Crew	33

SS Cantabria was a Spanish-owned cargo steamship that was built in 1919 in Canada and sunk in 1938 in a naval action in the Spanish Civil War in the North Sea. She was built as War Chief, renamed Alfonso Pérez shortly after she was built, and renamed Cantabria during the Spanish Civil War.

Cantabria's wreck is off the coast of Norfolk, 12 miles ENE^[2] of Cromer.^[3] She was shelled by the Spanish Nationalist auxiliary cruiser Nadir.