Juan Sebastián Elcano (Spanish ship)

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The Juan Sebastián de Elcano is a training ship for the Royal Spanish Navy. A four-masted topsail schooner, at 113 metres (370 feet) long it is the third-largest Tall Ship in the world. It 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 de 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).

The Juan Sebastián de Elcano was built in 1927 in Cadiz, Spain, and her hull was designed by the Echevarrieta y Larriñaga shipyard in Cadiz. Her plans were also used twenty-five years later to construct her Chilean sail training vessel sister ship Esmeralda in 1952-1954. She is a four-masted, topsail schooner, and has a steel hull.

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• Ferrol Spanish Capital of the Maritime Department of the North (1788 AD).

• Spanish Naval Academy (ENM) In modern times, Institution where the Spanish Armada (i.e.: Spanish Navy) officers and other personnel receive their education.

• "El Galatea" (also known as Glenlee) From 1922 till 1969 it was the Training Tall Ship for the Spanish Navy in El Ferrol (North-western Spain).

• "El Juan Sebastián Elcano" Currently, Training Tall Ship for the Spanish Navy in the Escuela Naval Militar de Oficiales de Marín.

• El Club Naval de Ferrol Originally design for the amusement of the Spanish Navy personnel and their families posted to the Naval Station of El Ferrol.

• Structure of the Spanish Navy in the 21st century