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  • 1861-03-17, El Museo Universal, Arsenal de la Carraca, Ruiz.jpg

    Photo by Federico Ruiz / Bernardo Rico via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)

  • Arsenal de la carraca. Album de la provincia de Cadiz LCCN2003688773.jpg

    Photo by Popular Graphic Arts via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)

  • Arsenal de la Carraca.jpg

    Photo by NACLE via Wikimedia Commons (CC0)

  • ASTILLERO DE SAN FERNANDO.jpg

    Photo by PEPE GADEIRAS via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

  • BUQUE EN CONSTRUCCIÓN.jpg

    Photo by PEPE GADEIRAS via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

  • Escudo de armas de la monarquía española que coronaba la Puerta del Mar del Caño de San Fernando del Arsenal de la Carraca. Museo Naval de Madrid.jpg

    Photo by Dorieo via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

  • Islote de Santa Lucía (arsenal de La Carraca, San Fernando).jpg

    Photo by Carlos Vargas via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)

  • Presidio Cuatro Torres de San Fernando en Cádiz 1911.png

    Photo by Caras y Caretas via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)

Background

Arsenal de La Carraca, also Naval Station of La Carraca, is a naval shipyard and a naval base in San Fernando, Spain. It is a naval base for the construction and repair of ships, and the storage and distribution of arms and ammunition. The first military establishment of its kind to be created in Spain under the naval policy of Felipe V, it was developed by Patiño and the Marquis de la Ensenada. Though work on building the shipyard began in 1720, the formal decree issued by Fernando VI on October 3, 1752, accelerated its construction until it was completed in the late 18th century.

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Current population

Occupancy

Year opened

1752

Operational

Facility profile

Operator

Spanish Navy

Population held

Mixed/unknown

Opened

1752

Region

Security level

Death-row facility

No

Conditions

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