Spanish navy academy training Ship

[scoone]

Built in the "Echevarrieta Larrinaga" shipyard (Cádiz), she was launched the 5th March, 1927. She costed 49.220 euros (8.189.532 Pta. of that time). She has been sailing for the last seventy five years, has covered more than one million and a half nautical miles across all the seas of the world and has moored at the most important harbours.
"Elcano", that´s how we call it, was built to fill the need for a ship devoted to train the new captains, officials, cadets and sailors of the Navy. Therefore, the sail ship makes a six month cruise every year, generally out of Spain; about three quarters of the time offshore, where the students receive lessons and participate in all types of manoeuvres. Nine of the 72 journeys made so far were around the wold. During all those years, the ship has resisted all kinds of winds and waves and has always shown to be very seaworthy.
"Elcano" is also a floating Embassy. Her presence in foreign countries helps the Spanish Foreign Policy and showing its flag, spreads a good image and allows many Spaniards living abroad to step on this "small floating piece of Spain".
The name "Elcano" comes from an excellent and renowned marine, Juan Sebastián de Elcano, hero of one of the greatest deeds of the Spanish maritime history. Born in Guetaria (Guipúzcoa), in 1476, he joined, as an expert navigator, an expedition of five vessels, armed by Charles I, king of Spain. The ships, commanded by the Portuguese Magallanes, weighted anchors from Sanlúcar de Barrameda in 1519, trying to find a new route towards "The Islands of The Spices". After surrounding the southern end of America, discovering the Philippine Islands, and going through endless misfortunes (the death of Magallanes, shipwrecks, famines…), of the whole expedition, the ship Victoria, commanded by Elcano, was the only one left. The expedition arrived in Spain three years after the departure, having surrounded the earth for the first time in history. King Charles I rewarded Elcano with a coat of arms with the motto "TU PRIMUS CIRCUMDEDISTI ME" (The first one who surrounded me).




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[MARINO]

I want to go to Spanish Army or Spanish Marines or Spanish Navy, but if i go to Marines or navy, i'm going to travel in this ship and this is priceless.
Beatiful pics, from a beatiful ship. Chili have the brother of this one made also here in Spain. woot woot

[scoone]

It's priceless indeed.
The one from Chile is the Esmeralda I think.

[MARINO]

Yes but theyhave a silly problem, they said that people was tortured in this ship during Pinochet dictatures, so any Harbour let's them stop into.

[scoone]

:(

[AFACadet]

That's pretty cool.


I knew a few guys from the Spanish Air Force Academy who came here for 1/2 a year.

[MARINO]

Spanish Army Cadets make also an exchange with westpoint, some go to west point, and american cadets come here in zaragoza. So i will probaly see your army collegues. :D