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Les bateaux de marine marchande disparurent au lendemain de la guerre d’indépendance menée par les colonies américaines de l’Espagne. Il ne restait plus que quelques voiliers de cabotage avides de rétablir la navigation avec les Antilles. Le Décret Royal de Charles III rétablit le commerce avec les colonies qui restaient fidèles à l’Espagne, la felouque San Juan « La Glorieuse » effectuant le premier voyage.

Discover one of the jewels of ship modelling, which will allow you to enjoy marvellous moments and relive the age in which these majestic ships sailed the oceans.

Following the War of Independence, after Spain had lost her American colonies, merchant marine ships all but disappeared from the peninsula, leaving only small coastal sailing boats behind to re-establish the routes to the Antilles.

Through the Royal Decree issued by Charles III, trade was re-opened with those colonies that remained faithful and it was the felucca, “San Juan” (El Glorioso), that made the first voyage.