May 22, 1895 - Death of Isaac Peral, inventor of the first electric-powered torpedo submarine

The prominent Carthaginian sailor known mainly for designing an electrically powered submarine that revolutionized underwater navigation, died prematurely in Berlin, at the age of 42, due to skin cancer.

A few years earlier he began his ordeal when a barber in the Philippines accidentally cut off a wart. The wound produced did not heal over time and he decided to put himself in the hands of one of the best doctors of the time, Don Federico Rubio y Galí. However, he advises him to move to Germany and be treated by Dr. Bergman.

On May 4, 1895, he traveled to Berlin to undergo surgery and, in principle, the operation was a complete success. However, an oversight in his cures caused him a meningitis that ended his life on May 22 of that same year.

The embalmed body of Isaac Peral is transferred from Berlin to Madrid to be buried in the La Almudena cemetery. He was received at the Estación del Norte (today Príncipe Pío) by family and friends to the sound of "The Heroic March of Beethoven", Isaac Peral's favorite composer.

On April 28, 1911, his mortal remains were transferred from the La Almudena cemetery in Madrid to the Nuestra Señora de los Remedios cemetery in Cartagena, his hometown.

In 1927 his remains were exhumed again and placed at the foot of the new Deco-style mausoleum in the enclosure for illustrious sons of Cartagena from that same cemetery.