The takeover of the Navy by coup leaders failed mainly because the messages calling for a rebellion against the Spanish Republic were not sent in code —as would have been the norm— from Ciudad Lineal to the senior officers commanding the ships.
Republican Party (United States) | Spanish | Royal Navy | United States Navy | Spanish language | Navy | Spanish Civil War | Republican Party | U.S. Navy | Democratic-Republican Party | Royal Australian Navy | French Navy | Democratic-Republican Party (United States) | Royal Canadian Navy | Indian Navy | United States Navy Reserve | Imperial Japanese Navy | Spanish-American War | Soviet Navy | Spanish people | Provisional Irish Republican Army | Republican National Committee | Republican Party (U.S.) | Republican National Convention | Irish Republican Army | Spanish Navy | People's Liberation Army Navy | Spanish Armada | Second Spanish Republic | navy |
The Battle of Cape Cherchell was a naval battle between the Nationalist heavy cruiser Baleares and the Spanish Republican Navy light cruisers Libertad and Méndez Núñez in the Spanish Civil War, several miles north of the Algerian city of Cherchell.
On June 15, Germany denounced a supposed Spanish Republican Navy attack against the German cruiser Leipzig, and on June 23 Germany and Italy withdrew from the Non-Intervention Committee and Portugal withdrew the British observers on its frontier.
Following the uprising of Francoist forces in July 1936, control of Andalusia was divided between the Republican forces and the Nationalists, with the Costa del Sol remaining in the Republican zone and Málaga serving as a naval base for the Spanish Republican Navy.
Photographer Robert Capa took pictures of the Spanish Republican Navy Marines in the Battle of the Segre.