Steamship Mina Entrego

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It’s been a while! I’ve kind of shifted towards historical 3d models, so here we are!

This is the steam ship ‘Mina Entrego’, which sailed through Spain’s northern waters during the mid 20th century. However, her story begins much earlier.

She was built and launched in Glasgow under the name ‘Princess Alice’ in 1866. A few decades later, in 1889, she was sold to a spanish company and renamed ‘Isleño’. Back then, it used to transport mail and passengers, but in 1941, it was sold again, and refited into a cargo vessel. The buyer was ‘Naviera del Nalón’, a shipping company from Asturias, Spain, which renamed her as ‘Mina Entrego’. She sailed for another 30 years, carrying coal from and to various cities of the Cantabrian Sea. She was finally scrapped in Gijón, her home port, in 1969.

When she was retired, she was the oldest vessel under the spanish flag, after 103 years steaming through the seas.

I decided to make this vessel because it was my grandfather’s first ship, and he sailed on her for over a decade.