Manuel de Mendívil

Mendivil, as a writer and sailor, collaborated with the magazine Mundo Naval (1897–1899) and was also the director of the magazine Alrededor del Mundo and the literary collection Los Contemporáneos [es].^[1]

Among his works were titles such as Shadows (novel travels) (1910), Misty Countries (novel travels) (1911), Twilight of the Kings (1911), Love, Eternal Love (1912), The Story of Many Lives (1913), Sentimental Journey (1918) and Mendez Nuñez, Hero of Callao (1930) – a biography of the fellow sailor Casto Méndez Núñez – and others.^[2]

During the Spanish Civil War, he was appointed governor of Spanish Guinea by the Nationalists after the end of hostilities in the colony in October 1936.^[3] He died in the Gipuzkoan city of San Sebastián on 5 April 1942.^[4] He was married to Rosario Martínez de Irujo y Caro del Alcázar y Széchenyi, who survived him.^[5]

• Juan Sebastián de Elcano — training ship of the Spanish Navy, whose first commanding officer was Manuel de Mendívil.