Granma (yacht)

Granma (yacht)

"Granma" is the yacht that was used to transport the fighters of the Cuban Revolution from Mexico to Cuba in 1956 for the purpose of overthrowing the regime of Fulgencio Batista. The 60-foot (18-meter) diesel-powered cabin cruiser was built in 1943 and designed to accommodate 12 people. It is said to have been named for the original owner's grandmother. [ [http://web.archive.org/web/20061128124436/http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061126/ts_nm/mexico_castro_dc Yahoo news] . Accessed 3 December 2006.
° [http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_wires/2006Jul25/0,4675,CubaRootsoftheRevolutionLH1,00.html Roots of Cuban Revolution lie in the east.] Vanessa Arrington, Associated Press July 2006. Accessed 14 January 2007.
° [http://jcgi.pathfinder.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,899011,00.html Time Magazine 1966 report] Accessed 3 December 2006.
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Role in the Cuban revolution

The yacht was purchased on 10 October 1956 for the amount of MX$50,000 (US$15,000) from the U.S.-based "Schuylkill Products Company, Inc." by a Mexican citizen — said to be Mexico City gun dealer Antonio "The Friend" del Conde [cite news
url=http://www.caribbeannetnews.com/cgi-script/csArticles/articles/000044/004447.htm
title=Fifty years on, Mexico town recalls young Castro
author=Frank Jack Daniel
date=27 November 2006
publisher=Caribbean Net News
accessdate=2007-12-02
] — secretly representing Fidel Castro. Castro's 26th of July movement had attempted to purchase a Catalina flying boat or a US naval crash boat for the purpose of crossing the Gulf of Mexico to Cuba, but had been thwarted by lack of funds. The money to purchase the "Granma" had been raised in the U.S. state of Florida by former President of Cuba Carlos Prío Socarrás. [ Thomas, Hugh. Cuba : "The Pursuit of Freedom". p584-5. ]

Shortly after midnight on 25 November 1956 in the Mexican port of Tuxpan, Veracruz, the "Granma" was surreptitiously boarded by 82 members of the 26th of July movement including their leader, Fidel Castro, his brother, Raúl Castro, Che Guevara and Camilo Cienfuegos. The group — who later came to be known collectively as "los expedicionarios del yate Granma" — set out from Tuxpan at 1 a.m. and, after a series of vicissitudes and misadventures, including the near foundering of their heavily overladen and leaking craft, disembarked on the shores of what is now Granma Province on 2 December. The "Granma" was piloted by Norberto Collado Abreu, a Cuban Navy veteran and ally of Castro. cite news |first=|last=|title=Cuban Revolutionary Collado Abreu Dies|url=http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iwmSiVGv7YJhIJt2qN4o-3rWEQ-QD8VQ3DSG0|work= Associated Press |publisher=|date=2008-04-03 |accessdate=2008-04-03] The location was chosen to emulate the voyage of national hero José Martí, who had landed in the same region 61 years earlier during the wars of independence from Spanish colonial rule.

After the revolution

Soon after the revolutionary forces triumphed on 1 January 1959, the cabin cruiser was transferred to Havana Bay. Norberto Collado Abreu, who had served as main helmsman for the 1956 voyage, was given the responsibility of guarding and preserving the yacht.

Since 1976, the yacht has been on permanent display in a glass enclosure at the [http://www.cnpc.cult.cu/cnpc/museos/musRevul/gale/doc/memori.html Granma Memorial] adjacent to the Museum of the Revolution in Havana. A portion of old Oriente Province, where the expedition made landfall, was renamed Granma Province in honor of the vessel and the Landing of the Granma National Park established at the location (Playa Las Coloradas) has been declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. Every year on 25 November a group of Cuban youths sets out from Tuxpan aboard a replica of the "Granma" to re-trace hour by hour the voyage of the original "Granma" to its landing spot at Playa Las Coloradas a week later.Fact|date=February 2007

The date 2 December is celebrated as the "Day of the Cuban Armed Forces", ["Expedición del Granma" Online at [http://www.cubagob.cu/otras_info/minfar/granma.htm Cuban Ministry of the Armed Forces] , accessed 19 November 2006] and the replica has also been paraded at state functions to commemorate the original voyage. ( [http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i39/zleitzen/GranmaReplica.jpgSee image] ) In further tribute, the official newspaper of the Central Committee of the Cuban Communist Party has been called "Granma." The name of this vessel became an icon for Cuban communism. Although the name is sometimes described as having been misspelt, the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary lists "granma" as a variant of "grandma". Not every Cuban realizes that the name would translate as "abuela," although all can name the "mothership" of the revolution.

References

External links

*es [http://www.tribuna.islagrande.cu/curiosas/yate3d.htm ¿Cómo se compró el Yate Granma?]
* [http://www.granma.cu/INGLES/noviem4/48collado-i.html After receiving U.S. congressional recognition, he became the ‘Granma’ helmsman]
* [http://www.themilitant.com/1996/6013/6013_25.html Che Guevara's account of the "Granma's" voyage]
* [http://www.cuba.cu/gobierno/discursos/2001/ing/f021201i.html Fidel Castro recalls the "Granma" crossing]
* [http://www.historyofcuba.com/history/granma.htm Landing of the "Granma" on historyofcuba.com]
* [http://www.phogle.com/en/photos/2521.html Photo of the Granma Memorial]
* [http://www.psupress.psu.edu/Justataste/samplechapters/justatasteDosal.html The Voyage of the "Granma"]


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