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Museo de la Construcción Naval de Ferrol
EXPONAV
The Museum of Naval Construction of Ferrol, run by the EXPONAV Foundation, is the only one of its kind, making it the most important shipbuilding museum in Spain. All sorts of pieces related to this activity can be found among its collection, such as shipbuilding tools, propulsion systems, scale models and even the
remains of a sunken frigate from 1810.
All of it in a unique building as relevant as the collection itself, an 18th century blacksmith’s for the production of anchors and chains, among others, employing more than 140 workers at the time.
Section of a turbine showing the three parts of it: ciar, cruise and navigation paddles. Is completed with the reduction necessary to attack the propeller. ...
Hand tool, similar to a hammer but larger and heavier, used to counter the blows of the riveter from outside the hull. ...
Olivetti computer composed of screen, keyboard, disk unit and punched card reader/writer. It was among the first personal computers available on the market. ...
First machine ev er used for the production of scale models of ships to be tested in the El Pardo Model Basin. ...
Model that reproduces a longitudinal section of an 18th century ship, displaying its different compartments and equipment, such as between-deck areas and upper deck details. ...
Wooden piece from the Phillipines, carved in the shape of a centreboard. It acted as a door for an irrigation channel or a dock. Its ...
Recovered parts of the Santa María Magdalena wreckage. Built in 1773 in the Esteiro slipways, it sank due to a storm the night from 2 ...
Section of a double-expansion steam engine: an external combustion machine which transforms steam energy into mechanical work. ...
Firts hard disk with integrated heads, used in the IBM 360 and 370 computers, with a capacity of 250 Mb, coeval with punched card equipment. ...
Plywood ‘Snipe’ boat, with white hull and varnished deck, complete with wooden mast and boom, rudder, tiller, centreboard and a set of sails. It was ...
Model of the Puerto Real Shipyard in Cádiz. The shipyard was inaugurated by the Marquess of Comillas in 1878, and it had different owners throughout ...
Model of the operating me chanism of a steam hammer, used in many forges located on river banks. This mechanism is described in the Códice ...
Scale reproduction of a Yarrow boiler. This is an acuotubular boiler: water circulates inside the tubes while combustion gases circulate outside them. This type of ...
Named after its inventor, Sprague Stanley, this integraph is a mechanical instrument used to calculate section areas of a ship directly off plan. ...
Telegraph used to transmit orders between the bridge and the engine room or the deck.
Cross sections of the centre of a ship, showing the structure of the main frame and part of the rigging. ...
Model of the Astano Shipyard from the bridge of As Pías. It started as a private company founded by José María González Llanos. Towards the ...
Partial staging of an 18th century orlop containing two cannons, a hammock and various everyday objects present in ships from that period. ...
Reproduction of the instrument used for defining top levels of a piece based on its model at a 1:10 scale. This information is later used ...
The model represents the cruiser as it was during the Semana Naval de Barcelona (Barcelona’s Naval Week), held in june 1966. The Canarias was one ...
Mechanical device th at can be activated manually or by an electric motor. It is used to l.ift and move heavy loads. This piece comes ...
Model of two ships on the slipways of Ferrol’s Shipyard: the Canarias, ready for launch, and the Baleares, still under construction. Scale 1:100. ...
Model of Bazán’s dock No. 2, the Reina Victoria Eugenia, built on the occasion of its 50th anniversary. This dock was built between 1909 and ...
11-metre-long wooden trainera, with eight thwarts and seven oars on each side for sailing competition. ...
Construction boat named MAPI with mast and lateen, characteristic of the Ares and Ferrol estuaries. It was built by Manuel Picallo around 1970 in the ...
The Comercio, a steamboat bought by the company La Herculina Ferrolana in 1901 in Glasgow (UK), carried passengers and goods between Ferrol and A Coruña. ...
Model representing the launch of the oil tanker Arteaga in 1972, from slipway no. 1 of the Astano Shipyard. It was the largest vessel ever ...
Small vessel traditional from the Rías Baixas, Galicia, used for octopus fishing, restored leaving the wood exposed, original from Bueu (Pontevedra).
Model of the Royal Dockyard of Guarnizo (Cantabria), one of the most important shipyards in Spain between the 17th and 18th centuries. Scale 1:200. Very ...
Composed of three parts: tail, float and superstructure. Counterweights at the bottom of the tail provide the buoy with vertical stability. ...
Telephone switchboard from the Sociedad Española de Construcción Naval, with jacks, wiring, handset, wooden board and cast iron base. ...
Longitudinal sec tion plan of battleship Alfonso XIII. Scale 1:50. Black and White, ink on paper. Displaying various ship compartments in detail. ...
The media construcción boat is a representative boat of the Ferrol estuary. It is a boat of simple, quick and cheap construction. The hull has ...
Half hulls used between 1900 and 1975 in the shipyard’s Technical Office to define the outlines of the strakes that form the hull shell. ...
Two lion sculptures from the 18th century, originally located in a slipway close to the 12 Apostolado slipways, at the old Royal Dockyard of Esteiro. ...
Toy reproduction of the battleship España (1930). Manufactured in Alicante by the company Hermanos Payá. The movement of its front wheel simulates the ocean waves. ...
Table used in the workshop to set up the articulated specific levels, which were used in the modeling of the hull shell plates during the ...
Discoverer Enterprise model, one of the largest offshore units built in Fene’s shipyards in 1998. During a storm in January 1998, it broke free from ...
Full-sized replica of a ship section, including the main structural elements of an 18th century ship frame. Access ramps allow the visitors to walk through ...
Staging of the Officers’ Mess, the non-commissioned officers and crew’s cabins and bathrooms of a 21st-century FFG frigate. ...
Recreation of one of the 32 forges of the Herrerías building, destined to the production of anchors and chains. The forges employed up to 144 ...
Scale model of the emblematic Astano gantry crane. This craneis 90 m. high counting its upper beam and its current function is to move the ...
Model of the F-105 Cristóbal Colón, one of the frigates of the F-100 class or Álvaro de Bazán class, in service with the Spanish Navy ...
GROUND FLOOR
The Museum begins on the ground floor of the Herrerías building. The first stage of the tour is subdivided into five thematic modules.
FIRST FLOOR
The Temporary Exhibition Hall houses pictorial, photographic, and artistic exhibits on themes related to the sea.