Word: ferrando
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tied up in the harbor awaiting repairs that were started three weeks ago. Out of the darkness appeared eleven Spaniards, one Frenchman in civilian clothes. They clambered down the companionway with word that they bore special sealed orders from Valencia. The C-2's commander, José Luis Ferrando, met his guests formally in the companionway, suddenly found himself squinting down the muzzles of a dozen pistols. The visitors actually were renegade Leftist officers from another Valencia submarine, the C4, also up for repairs at Bordeaux, attempting to kidnap the C-2 from French waters for a bribe...
...fact that the engines would not start and that a Leftist engineer dodged behind a bulkhead and began firing his pistol, killing one of the raiders. Before French harbor police had been able to come out to investigate the row the subernappers had escaped, taking Commander Ferrando with them as hostage. At Bélin near Bordeaux French police captured one of their two escaping cars, interned the lot. Among them was Miguel Juan Las Heras, Commander of the C4. Immediately it became apparent that Commander Ferrando had not been kidnapped under great duress. To reporters he said...