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Tuesday, 20 April 2021

Military Museum, Santa Cruz de Tenerife

Museo Histórico Militar de Canarias in the Fuerte de Almeyda 
Image: CARLOS TEIXIDOR CADENAS, CC BY-SA 3.0

Of course that's what parking spaces are for!

Model ship. To be fair, not everything has an English label.

Cannon "El Gato" (The Cat)

This one's called "El Miserable". Wouldn't you be, if it hit you?

The flag of the British frigate, "Emerald", it is said, was found at dawn on 25 July 1797,
in one of the [British] launches tied up on the coast of Santa Cruz.

General Gutiérrez Trouncer of Nelson



Interior of the curved courtyard


Scale model depicting the Battle of Santa Cruz 1797