Granma is the yacht that was used to transport the fighters of the Cuban Revolution from Mexico to Cuba in 1956 fro the purpose of overthrowing the regime of Fulgencio Batista. The 60-foot diesel-powered cabin cruiser was built in 1943 and designed to accommodate 12 people.
The yacht was purchased on October 10, 1956 for $15,000 by a Mexican citizen secretly representing Fidel Castro. Shortly after midnight on November 25, 1956 in the Mexican port of Tuxpan, Veracruz, the Granma was surreptitiously boarded by 82 members of the 26th of July movement including their leader, Castro, his brother Raul, and Che Guevara. After a series of misadventures, including the near foundering of their heavily overladen and leaking craft, disembarked on the shores of what is now Granma Province on December 2.
The location was chosen to emulate the voyage of national hero Jose Marti, who had landed in the same region 61 years earlier during the wars of independence from Spanish colonial rule. Soon after the revolutionary forces triumphed, the cabin cruiser was transferred to Havana Bay in 1959. Since 1976, the yacht has been on permanent display in a glass enclosure at the Granma Memorial adjacent to the Museum of the Revolution in Havana. December 2 is celebrated as the “Day of the Cuban Armed Forces” and the replica has been paraded at state functions.
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