fishing tragedy

The false alibi of the Villa de Pitanxo captain so as not to carry his 21 dead

Juan Padín wanted to attribute the sinking of the fishing boat to an engine failure and not to his refusal to lower the net when he saw that it was dragging him to the bottom in Newfoundland waters.

The sailors begged him and he turned a deaf ear.

His stubbornness, the Civil Guard points out, killed them.

There were only three survivors: his nephew, another sailor and himself.

The three survivors, disembarking in Canada after the shipwreck.