Naval Museum

Isaac Peral Pavilion Cartagena Naval Museum

Isaac Peral is known as the Father of the Spanish Submarine fleet today his name has been given to the classes of Spanish submarines due to his development of the electric submarines.

He was given a post in Cádiz, teaching in the new naval school Escuela de Ampliación de Estudios de la Armada. There he found time to pursue his idea of a battery-powered submarine with a system to discharge torpedoes while under water. His main problems were his need for finance to develop and test his inventions, lack of official support, and especially his arrogance when dealing with superiors with less vision.

Peral's design for a submarine was first conceived on 20 September 1884, when he wrote a paper which would become his Proyecto de Torpedero Submarino.

Here we see the first submarine he designed and built