Blas de Lezo y Olavarrieta (3 February 1689 - 7 September, 1741), also known as "Patapalo" (Pegleg), and later as "Mediohombre" (Half-man) for the many wounds suffered in his long military life, was a Spanish admiral and one of the greatest strategists and commanders in the history of the Spanish Navy.

Fernando Villaamil Fernández-Cueto was a Spanish naval officer, remembered for his internationally recognized professionalism, for being the designer of the first destroyer warship in history and for his heroic death in the naval Battle of Santiago de Cuba of the Spanish-American war, being the highest Spanish officer to suffer this fate in that event.

Dudley Bernard Egerton Pope (29 December 1925 - 25 April 1997) was a British writer of both nautical fiction and history, most notable for his Lord Ramage series of historical novels. He was born in Ashford, Kent, and at age 16 joined the merchant navy as a midshipman. His ship was torpedoed the next year (1942), and he was invalided out. Pope then went to work for a Kentish newspaper, then in 1944 moved to "The Evening News" in London, …

Pascual Cervera y Topete (February 18, 1839 - April 3, 1909) served as Almirante (or Admiral) of the Spanish Caribbean Squadron during the Spanish-American War, and prior to this served his country in a variety of military and political roles. Cervera was a highly decorated veteran of the Spanish Navy, and served with some distinction during the Carlist Wars before retiring from the active service to act as head of Spain's Ministerio de Marina, …

Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra (baptized 3 June, 1743 - 26 March, 1794) was a Spanish naval officer born in Lima, Peru. Sailing from the Spanish Naval Department at San Blas, in what now is the Mexican state of Nayarit, from 1774 - 1788 this South American navigator explored the Northwest Coast of North America as far north as Alaska.

Salvador Fidalgo was a Spanish explorer who commanded an exploring expedition for Spain to Alaska and the Pacific Northwest during the late 1700s. He had been born at la Seu d'Urgell in the province of Lleida, the heir of a noble Navarrese family. He entered the Spanish Navy as a guardiamarina in Cádiz, and by 1790, had become a Battleship Lieutenant stationed at San Blas in northwestern México.

Arthur William Radford (February 27, 1896 - August 17, 1973) was an U.S. Navy Admiral, Commander-in-Chief of the United States Pacific Command and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Arthur Radford was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1896. After graduating from the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland in 1916, Radford served on board the USS South Carolina.

María de los Ángeles Alvariño Gozález, first female Scientist to work on British and Spanish exploration ships and leading Oceanographer (1916-2005)

Flora Tristan was a socialist writer and activist. She was also one of the founders of modern feminism and, through Alina María Chazal, Paul Gauguin's grandmother. Her complete name was Flore-Celestine -Therèse-Henriette Tristan-Moscoso. Her father, Mariano Tristán y Moscoso, was an Arequipa-born Peruvian colonel of the Spanish Navy, and her mother, Anne Laisney, a Frenchwoman. Her parents met in Bilbao, Spain during her father's stay there.

John Hood (3 December 1859 - 11 February 1919) was an admiral of the United States Navy during World War I. He was also a veteran of the Spanish-American War. Hood was born in Florence, Ala., 3 December 1859. He was appointed to the United States Naval Academy in 1875, and graduated from the Naval Academy, second in his class. His first cruise after graduation took him to the South Atlantic in "Shenandoah", and he later sailed in "Wachusett", …

Jacques de Liniers was a French officer within the Spanish military service, and a viceroy of the Spanish colonies of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata. He is more widely by the Spanish form of his name, Santiago de Liniers. Following a military and naval career in Europe, he was transferred there in 1788 as a Spanish naval officer. In 1806, Liniers was successful in recapturing Buenos Aires from British invading forces led by William Carr Beresford.

Jorge Isaacs Ferrer was a Colombian writer, politician and soldier. His only novel, "María", became one of the most notable works of the Romantic movement in Spanish literature. His father was George Henry Isaacs, an English Jew originally from Jamaica. He first settled in Chocó, Colombia, where he made a fortune from gold mining and trade with Jamaica. He then moved to Cali where he converted to Christianity, …

Thomas (Tom) Green (June 8, 1814 - April 12, 1864) was a Texas landowner, politician, and soldier who served as a brigadier general in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War. He was considered as one of the finest cavalry leaders in the Trans-Mississippi Theater.

Benjamin Franklin Tilley (1848-March 18 1907), often known as B. F. Tilley, was a career officer in the United States Navy serving from the end of the American Civil War through the Spanish-American War. He is best remembered as the first acting-Governor of American Samoa. At the conclusion of his 41 years of service, shortly before dying of pneumonia, he was promoted to Rear Admiral.

Lewis Hancock, Jr. (15 October 1889 - 3 September 1925) served in the United States Navy during World War I as a submariner. He later became a naval aviator. Lewis Hancock, Jr. was born on 15 October 1889 in Austin, Texas. He was appointed to the U.S. Naval Academy from that state in 1906 and graduated in June 1910. He served in the battleship "Vermont" (BB-20) before being commissioned as an Ensign in March 1912, …

Luis de Córdova y Córdova was a Spanish admiral and commander of a Spanish fleet during the American Revolutionary War. His exploits included the capture of two British convoys totalling 79 ships in 1780, including a fleet of 55 merchant vessels and frigates at Santa María. In 1782 he battled a Royal Navy fleet at the Cape Spartel but was unsuccessful in preventing its escape.

Manuel Antonio Flores Maldonado Martínez Ángulo y Bodquín (ca. 1722, Seville, Spain-March 20, 1799, Madrid) was a general in the Spanish navy and viceroy of New Granada (1776 - November 26, 1781) and New Spain (August 17, 1787 to October 16, 1789).

Juan José Lerena y Barry was a Spanish naval captain who attempted to establish Spanish control over the Gulf of Guinea during the mid-nineteenth century. Born in Cádiz, he served as commander of the brigantine "Nervión" and royal commissary for the island of Fernando Po. In March 1843, he proclaimed Spanish sovereignty over Fernando Po and replaced English toponyms with Spanish ones. He worked to establish Spanish control over other islands in the Gulf of Guinea, …

Don Pedro Caro y Sureda, 3rd marqués de La Romana was a distinguished Spanish general of the Peninsular War. Born at Palma de Mallorca to a family of Balearic nobility, La Romana was educated in France and, upon the death of his father, was awarded a commission in the Spanish Royal Navy by King Charles III. He studied at the University of Salamanca and entered the "Seminario de Nobles" in Madrid. Like many Spanish officers of the Napoleonic era, …

Admiral Ramon Power y Giralt Admiral Ramon Power y Giralt ( October 21 , 1775 - June 10 , 1813 born in San Juan, Puerto Rico ), was according to Puerto Rican historian, Lidio Cruz Monclova, among the first native born Puerto Ricans to refer to himself as a " Puerto Rican " and to fight for the equal representation of Puerto Rico in front of the parliamentary government of Spain. Ramon Power was born in San Juan, city where he received his primary education at a private school.

Mrs. Radford was born in Portland, Oregon, February 28 1895, and was raised in Oregon and California. Her only son, Robert, from a prior marriage, was a Marine Corps fighter pilot during World War II, and was shot down and lost over the Japanese Islands in 1945. Admiral and Mrs. Radford were married in April 1939. During World War II, Admiral Radford commanded a carrier group in the Pacific.

Manuel Nadal de Uhler Director: ���� Tall Ships Atlantic Challenge Limited Member: ���� International Council (Country Representative for Spain) Manuel is a former Spanish Navy Commander and founder of the 'Escuela Nacional de Vela Calanova', Spain�s largest sailing school, with which he still collaborates on a regular basis.

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Bernard Jones Bernard is a systems engineer for Lockheed Martin, where he is Head C&D Engineer for the Spanish Navy program. Prior to that, he worked as a mechanical engineer for a fiber optic manufacturing start-up company and an HVAC engineering firm. Bernard has worked on several start-up ventures including Digidrop, a digital photography production company.

Reina Mercedes , an unprotected cruiser for the Spanish Navy, was launched 12 September 1887 at Cartagena, Spain. She initially served in Spanish waters; joining the Instructional Squadron in 1893, but was transferred to the Caribbean in 1895. Reina Mercedes acted as flagship of Spanish naval forces in Cuban waters with additional duty as station ship at Santiago de Cuba.