Elcano in Pensacola, 2009 |
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| Career (Spain) | |
|---|---|
| Name: | Juan Sebastian Elcano |
| Operator: | Spanish Navy |
| Laid down: | 1927 |
| Fate: | training ship |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 3673 tons |
| Length: | 113 m (371 ft) |
| Beam: | 13.11 m (43 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 (30,892 sq. ft.)[1] |
| Speed: | max 13 knots engine, 17.5 knots sail |
| Complement: | 300 sailors, 90 midshipmen |
| Armament: | 2 × 57 mm ceremonial gun mounts |
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").
The Juan Sebastián de Elcano was built in 1927 in Cadiz, Spain, 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. Her plans were also used twenty-five years later to construct her Chilean sail training vessel sister ship Esmeralda in 1952-1954.