The Spanish sail training ship Juan Sebastian de Elcano
Tuesday, 1 January 2013 - 01:06 pm (CET/MEZ) Berlin | Author/Destination: Yachting and Spa Tall ships , Yacht of the Month
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The
Juan Sebastián de Elcano is a training ship for the Royal
Spanish Navy . She is a four-masted topsail, steel-hulled schooner. At 113 metres (370 feet) long, she is the third-largest
Tall Ship in the world.
She is named after Spanish explorer Juan Sebastián Elcano , captain of Ferdinand Magellan ‘s last exploratory fleet. The ship also carries the de 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 terraqueous globe with the motto “Primus Circumdedisti Me” (meaning: “First to circumnavigate me”).
Juan Sebastián Elcano statue by Ricardo Bellver in Guetaria ©flickr.com - Luistxo
The
Juan Sebastián de Elcano was built in 1927 in
Cadiz , and her hull was designed by the Spanish naval architect and engineer Juan Antonio Aldecoa y Arias in the Echevarrieta y Larrinaga shipyard in Cadiz.
In 1933 under Commander Salvador Moreno Fernández’s order a series of improvements were made to the ship and the bronze plate with the Latin language inscription
Tu Primus Circundedisti Me was placed near the prow. Her plans were used twenty-five years later to construct her Chilean sail training vessel sister ship
Esmeralda in 1952-1954.
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