About an anonymous hero 
ensign Honorary Juan Gonzalez Diaz, English merchant navy. A name that says nothing to anyone, even those to whom he should say something. However, he received the privilege of being the only officer in the Merchant Navy to obtain the prestigious Cross of the Order of San Fernando "the Caudillo reserved the bravest of the brave. What a heroic gesture that English counterpart of Captain Haddock, more used to transport sardines than war at sea, he could do well? On August 14, 1936, Diaz, a 49-year-old officer of the cargo control Lugo El Monticello, home port: Bilbao, port of destination: Alicante, freight on board military equipment. When civil war broke out, the ship is at sea the crew is heavily committed to the Reds but Diaz, he is a nationalist. Feigning a lack of fuel, he relaxes in the British port of Gibraltar and quietly left the ship while it was refueled with coal. He went to the nearby port of Algeciras, controlled by the nationalist Colonel Coco, who advised him to bring the vessel in Ceuta, English Morocco. On 26 August the ship back to sea, crossing the Strait of Gibraltar patrolled by the navy red had control of the seas. The crew, realizing that the ship was not the way to the red zone, mutinied and threatened the captain with weapons. The latter came to communicate with the Nationalists, asking them to sink the ship with a seaplane base in Ceuta if the mutineers seize it. The bridge was machine-gunned, the master remaining stoic in the rain of bullets with his men. This act of courage brought about the development of minority rebels and the ship entered triumphantly into the port of Ceuta. Diaz inflicts not the slightest sanction to the sailors who rebelled gesture of kindness that is rarely found in his camp and never in the opposite. Diaz participated on all fronts at the crusade of liberation from Spain with the honorary title of lieutenant in the navy. A hero among many others over the years made anonymously. A Spaniard who was simply his duty. In memoriam.
ensign Honorary Juan Gonzalez Diaz, English merchant navy. A name that says nothing to anyone, even those to whom he should say something. However, he received the privilege of being the only officer in the Merchant Navy to obtain the prestigious Cross of the Order of San Fernando "the Caudillo reserved the bravest of the brave. What a heroic gesture that English counterpart of Captain Haddock, more used to transport sardines than war at sea, he could do well? On August 14, 1936, Diaz, a 49-year-old officer of the cargo control Lugo El Monticello, home port: Bilbao, port of destination: Alicante, freight on board military equipment. When civil war broke out, the ship is at sea the crew is heavily committed to the Reds but Diaz, he is a nationalist. Feigning a lack of fuel, he relaxes in the British port of Gibraltar and quietly left the ship while it was refueled with coal. He went to the nearby port of Algeciras, controlled by the nationalist Colonel Coco, who advised him to bring the vessel in Ceuta, English Morocco. On 26 August the ship back to sea, crossing the Strait of Gibraltar patrolled by the navy red had control of the seas. The crew, realizing that the ship was not the way to the red zone, mutinied and threatened the captain with weapons. The latter came to communicate with the Nationalists, asking them to sink the ship with a seaplane base in Ceuta if the mutineers seize it. The bridge was machine-gunned, the master remaining stoic in the rain of bullets with his men. This act of courage brought about the development of minority rebels and the ship entered triumphantly into the port of Ceuta. Diaz inflicts not the slightest sanction to the sailors who rebelled gesture of kindness that is rarely found in his camp and never in the opposite. Diaz participated on all fronts at the crusade of liberation from Spain with the honorary title of lieutenant in the navy. A hero among many others over the years made anonymously. A Spaniard who was simply his duty. In memoriam. 
