La Organización del astillero de La Habana durante el siglo XVIII

• Autores: María Mestre Prat de Pàdua, David Matamoros Aparicio
• Localización: Jahrbuch für Geschichte Lateinamerikas = Anuario de Historia de América Latina ( JbLA ), ISSN-e 2194-3680, Nº. 34, 1997, págs. 89-103
• Idioma: español
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• Resumen

  • The process of rationalisation in militar shipbuilding undertaken in 18th century Spain requires a study that should allow us to understand its meaning for the Armada. In this frame, the Havanna shipyard deserves a special attention: On one side, because it is the most important Spanish shipyard outside the Peninsula and, on the other, for it has been so far considered as strictly dependent on the Cádiz Maritime Department. This ambiguity, together with the refusal to consider the existence of a militar shipyard in Havanna, compels us to a detailed documental analysis that could prove the existence of both, the civil and the military shipyard, together with the independence of their working and organization from any peninsular Maritime Department. This independence was evident from the very beginning, because of the personality of its first organizer, Juan de Acosta. His seal will linger all through the century, only with technical specialization of the shipyard. In any case, some official regulations will try to adapt the shipyard to the general norms dictated in the second half of the century by the Secretaría de Marina.