Shipyards San Jacinto located in Aveiro.
The shipyards were founded in 1940, in the middle of World War 2. The lack of material caused by 1945 to devote themselves exclusively to the steel construction and construction machinery, being the first major work still existing engineering, o hangar da Base de S. Hyacinth, in height belonging Naval Aviation. This is a hangar with 60 meters and will have to bear the trusses, two seaplanes.
San Jacinto had a huge economic and population growth during the heyday of fishing for cod in Portugal, with the installation of this locality yards, and drying the cod, which was done in San Jacinto. Nowadays yards are vacant, and drying the cod almost non-existent, Drying done on a result of the industrial process.
The photos posted here dated September 2011.
I will prepare a comparative post with April 2009, By the time of my first visit to the site.
Unfortunately, strangers 3 Fires at the end of 2010 and frequent and continuous looting of iron infrastructure building, left the shipyards even worse than what they were already.
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Congratulations on your new site this, indeed exists in our pieces of derelict parents story, and forgotten in time, which deserve to be recorded and brought to the attention of us all.
As for the photos they are very good 🙂 I particularly like the photo number 11.
Here we expect new pieces of history.
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I liked knowing that “the first major engineering work still in existence, o hangar da Base de S. Hyacinth…”, this reference to the “two hydro hangar”(commonly so called, for housing the seaplanes), but especially for giving details of the span of the trusses – de 60 meters, because that number still had it in my memories (to but of 60 year old, assuming that at that time I would have my 7 year old), when I asked my father many questions – Ti João Maria Facica, Among many answers, he also mentioned something that I didn't ask him about – os “60 meters”, by the way and by the way, It was this worker who, being just a construction worker,, carried out this magnificent and very useful work, which he completed with the Air Force emblem right there on top…