The ancient book of Yurrita describes the storm worldly in 1878

The gales has left innumerable looses of lifes and boats in the Cantabrian Sea. The gales has left a tragic marks but it was terrible the story happened in the north of our peninsula in 20 April of 1878, denominated “Galerna del Sábado de Gloria”.

When the fisherman was fishing in 15 miles of coast, the gale started surprisely reaching an horrific dimensions. The fishers try to arrive to the ports but many of them didn´t arrive on time. 285 fisherman died and we can consult this information in the old ancient book of Yurrita.