Ciprián Autrán Y García

Place: Puerto Real

Born: 1697

Death: 1773

Biography:

Ciprián Autrán y García (1697-1773) was a Spanish engineer and shipbuilder, born in Puerto Real, Cádiz, Spain. He was the director of the Arsenal of the Carraca and was responsible for the building of the Spanish fleet on the death of Antonio de Gaztañeta in 1728. He improved on the systems of his predecessor and launched the 'Real Felipe', the first Spanish 3-decker ship, as well as other ships, bomb vessels, and frigates. He also built a waterwheel on the El Almendral estate, to the northwest of the town of Puerto Real, in the area known as Cerro de Autrán, which was part of an agricultural exploitation implanted in the middle of the 18th century by him. He died in 1773.