Spanish cruiser Baleares
Despite all efforts made by Franco to hide what had happened, the Canadian doctor Norman Bethune managed to take photographs and wrote about this experience in The New York Times: “We counted at least 5000 kids under 10 years, thousands of them barefoot… We decided to go back and start transporting them to set them safe.”.[1] In the afternoon of 7 September 1937, Baleares encountered four Republican merchant ships escorted by the cruisers Libertad and Méndez Núñez and six destroyers off Algeria in what became known as the Battle of Cape Cherchell.The cruiser was damaged by several hits from Libertad in critical areas and a fire in the 120 mm (4.7 in) ammunition storeroom, but she limped away successfully.During this gunnery duel, the Republican destroyers Sánchez Barcáiztegui, Lepanto, and Almirante Antequera all fired their torpedoes.Out of her crew of 1,206, she had 765 seamen killed or missing, among them Vice-Admiral Manuel Vierna Belando, commander of the cruiser division.
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