commander Willard H. Brownson believed that the ship that he was facing was the torpedo gunboat Galicia, a ship almost three times larger than Diego Velázquez. El urísima Concepción eventually reached Cienfuegos without difficulties while Yankee set a course back to the eastern end of Cuba. Aftermath The Action of 13 June 1898 was the last naval engagement fought near Cienfuegos. Land operations to capture the town, which remained open as a supply route to Havana and was the headquarters of one of the five corps in which Cuba had been divided, were recommended by the Cuban general Máximo Gómez to General William Shafer, but that plan was never carried out. The action of Cienfuegos was one of the events in which the Spanish coastguards successfully battled the American auxiliary fleet or Mosquito Squadron. At the end of the war Diego Velázquez sailed to the French colony of Martinique and then back to Spain, but was eventually sold to Venezuela on 17 July 1899. Named Miranda, she served in the Venezuelan Navy for many years. Juan de Carranza y Reguera died from illness in Cuba in 1899. Order of battle Spain Gunboats Diego Velázquez Lince Cometa United States Auxiliary cruiser USS Yankee References Bibliography Donald H. Dyal, Brian B. Carpenter, Mark A. Thomas, Historical dictionary of the Spanish American War. Greenwood Publishing Group (1996). Hermenegildo Franco Castañón, El combate naval del 3 de julio: Un desastre anunciado, in Cuad. Monogr. Inst. Hist. Cult. Nav. Inst. de Historia y Cultura Naval, Madrid (1998). Agustín Ramón Rodríguez González, Buques de la armada española a través de la fotografía, 1849–1900. Agualarga (2001). Agustín Ramón Rodríguez González, Bloqueo y Combates en La Habana y Cienfuegos in Revista General de Marina, Vol. 255 (2008). ISSN 0034-9569 David Solar, Una guerra por encima de las posibilidades españolas, in Historia y Comunicación Social, nº 3: La guerra del 98 y los medios de comunicación. Departamento de Historia de la Comunicación Social, Servicio de Publicaciones, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (1998). ISSN 1137-0734 El Mundo Naval Ilustrado. Hijos de M. G. Hernández, Madrid, (15/08/1898). ISSN 9954-8585 Yankee in Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. Navy Dept., Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, Naval History Division. Cardenas Battles and conflicts without fatalities June 1898 events