Spanish training ship Juan Sebastián de Elcano
Juan Sebastián de Elcano at Pontevedra, Spain. | |
| History | |
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| Spain | |
| 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 |
| Home port | Cadiz, Spain |
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| Status | Active |
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| General characteristics | |
| Type | Training ship |
| 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) |
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| Complement | 300 sailors, 90 midshipmen |
| Armament | 2 × 57 mm ceremonial gun mounts |
| Notes | Line art of Juan Sebastián de Elcano |
Juan Sebastián de Elcano is a training ship of the Spanish Navy. She is a steel-hulled, four-masted topsail barquentine. At 113 metres (371 ft) long, she is the third-largest tall ship in the world, and is the sailing vessel that has sailed the farthest, covering more than 2,000,000 nautical miles (3,700,000 km; 2,300,000 mi) in her lifetime.
She is named after the 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 Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, who also was King Charles I of Spain, following Elcano's return in 1522 from Magellan's global expedition. The coat of arms is a globe with the motto "Primus Circumdedisti Me" ("First to circumnavigate me").