on the same day, the spanish government announced that they were sending two ships to barcelona and one to tarragona to allocate spanish police reinforcements deployed from other places of spain. the first ship to arrive in barcelona was the "rhapsody", from an italian shipping company, followed by the "ms moby dada", also italian. the ship that docked in tarragona was named "gnv azzurra". the three ships had a capacity of 6,600. days later, these reinforcements tried to prevent the referendum on independence, injuring over 900 voters and panic scenes that were broadcast on news stations worldwide.