Spanish training ship Juan Sebastián de Elcano
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Juan Sebastián de Elcano is a training ship of the Spanish Navy. It is a four-masted topsail, steel-hulled barquentine (schooner barque). At 113 metres (371 ft) long, it is the third-largest tall ship in the world, and is the sailing vessel that has sailed the furthest, covering more than 2,000,000 nautical miles (3,700,000 km; 2,300,000 mi) in its lifetime.
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Name | Juan Sebastian de Elcano |
Namesake | Juan Sebastián Elcano |
Operator | Spanish Navy |
Ordered | 17 April 1925 |
Builder | Echevarrieta y Larrinaga yard, Cadiz, Spain |
Launched | 5 March 1927 |
Commissioned | August, 1928 |
Maiden voyage | 19 April 1928 |
Homeport | Cadiz, Spain |
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Status | Active |
Notes | training ship |
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General characteristics | |
Displacement | 3673 tons |
Length | 113 m (371 ft) |
Beam | 13.11 m (43.0 ft) |
Height | 48.5 m (159 ft) |
Draft | 7 m (23 ft) |
Sail plan | four-masted barquentine; 21 sails, total sail area of 2,870 m2 (30,900 sq ft)[1] |
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Complement | 300 sailors, 90 midshipmen |
Armament | 2 × 57 mm ceremonial gun mounts |
Notes | Line art of Juan Sebastián de Elcano |
It is named after Spanish explorer Juan Sebastián Elcano, captain of Ferdinand Magellan's last exploratory fleet and the man who completed the first circumnavigation of the world. The ship carries the Elcano coat of arms, which was granted to the family by Emperor Charles I following Elcano's return in 1522 from Magellan's global expedition. The coat of arms is a globe with the motto "Primus Circumdedisti Me" (meaning: "First to circumnavigate me").