The School kept always its dependency to the Ministry of Education and Science in Madrid, but when in 1990 the University of A Corunna came to exist as a fully independent body fully detached from the University of Santiago de Compostela, it was decided from A Coruña that a full integration with the newly created institution was going to be a good idea.
The purpose of this Royal Academy was to train the future members of the 1770 newly created Professional Body.
About a century later, in the nineteenth century a totally modernized "school of Naval Engineers"[1] was put in Ferrol as part of the general renewal of the Spanish Navy after the abandonment of the entire sector after the naval disaster of Trafalgar in 1805 which saw the streets of Ferrol empty of life as empty were its shipyards.
But by the mid nineteenth century things were looking very differently as the latest technological achievements of the English Industrial revolution were brought forward to the best shipyard in the country.
So, in 1858 the Royal Dockyards of Ferrol were launching Spain's first steam propelled ship which it was the first iron-hulled too.