The Port of Coatzacoalcos commemorates the LXXIII anniversary of the Navy day
Coatzacoalcos, June 1st, 2015.
In a solemn ceremony presided by the Municipal President, Mr. Joaquin Caballero Rosiñol; Vice Admiral Carlos Manuel Fernandez Monforte Brito, Commander of the Third Naval Zone; Dr. Ovidio Noval Nicolau, Director General of the Port Authority of Coatzacoalcos; Cap. Alt Gaspar Cime Escobedo, Harbormaster; Lic. Angelica Morales Lobato, Administrator of the Customs Coatzacoalcos; and the Queen of Marina Giselle I, accompanied by councilors, special guests and journalists held a commemorative ceremony LXXIII Anniversary of the Navy.
As part of this celebration honors our native labarum were conducted at the premises of the annex to City Hall, then the authorities moved the obelisk to the fallen sailors where they mounted a guard of honor and laid a wreath; to finalize the event moved to the cabotage dock of the Port of Coatzacoalcos where they set sail aboard the ocean patrol Oaxaca, to lay three wreaths at sea, in order to pay homage to the fallen in the line of duty marine.
The Navy Day was first celebrated in 1942, to honor the crews of Mexican tankers which were sunk by German submarines, resulting in the loss of many Mexican marines. The date was chosen because it was the June 1, 1917 when Article 32 of the constitution, which established the requirement that vessels carry the national flag were manned by Mexican birth was applied.
In a solemn ceremony presided by the Municipal President, Mr. Joaquin Caballero Rosiñol; Vice Admiral Carlos Manuel Fernandez Monforte Brito, Commander of the Third Naval Zone; Dr. Ovidio Noval Nicolau, Director General of the Port Authority of Coatzacoalcos; Cap. Alt Gaspar Cime Escobedo, Harbormaster; Lic. Angelica Morales Lobato, Administrator of the Customs Coatzacoalcos; and the Queen of Marina Giselle I, accompanied by councilors, special guests and journalists held a commemorative ceremony LXXIII Anniversary of the Navy.
As part of this celebration honors our native labarum were conducted at the premises of the annex to City Hall, then the authorities moved the obelisk to the fallen sailors where they mounted a guard of honor and laid a wreath; to finalize the event moved to the cabotage dock of the Port of Coatzacoalcos where they set sail aboard the ocean patrol Oaxaca, to lay three wreaths at sea, in order to pay homage to the fallen in the line of duty marine.
The Navy Day was first celebrated in 1942, to honor the crews of Mexican tankers which were sunk by German submarines, resulting in the loss of many Mexican marines. The date was chosen because it was the June 1, 1917 when Article 32 of the constitution, which established the requirement that vessels carry the national flag were manned by Mexican birth was applied.