On this day, 8 September 1888 was launched on ISAAC PERAL SUBMARINE.
Today marks 128 years of the launch in San Fernando's first submarine torpedo boat in history.
Isaac Peral, of cartagenero birth, but at 8 years old he moved to San Fernando, a city where he lived longer and where he developed his professional life and his invention. His house had it in the current Murillo street, near the alley Croquer, whose facade is a plaque that remembers it.
He designed and built the submarine in the Arsenal of the Carrack, in the oldest dams that exist in Spain, in the part that became known more widely as National Company Bazan and what today is called Navantia.
Envies and null capacities of governments of Spain made the project were left abandoned, despite the great potential of the submarine vessel.
Isaac Peral ran a similar fate, ending with the abandonment of his military career and taking to go to work in Germany as an engineer.
The American commander who in 1898 led the invasion of the island of Cuba made a statement post on the submarine Peral that have told the Spanish fleet with only one of those Submarines never could have won the war in Cuba.
For years the invention of Peral was abandoned in the facilities of our Bazan, until an admiral of Cartagena origin, chose to take it to that city, where it was restored and exposed.
If little or no vision of the government of the time had opted for this revolutionary invention, perhaps not he had lost the war with the United States and had been our bay of Cadiz the global epicenter of building submarines, with wealth and generating employment that might have supposed.
Unfortunately they are not the only examples in our bay has been creating great products with a high technological level and with great business opportunities.