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he Juan Sebastián Elcano is
a training ship for the Royal Spanish Navy. A four-masted topsail
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 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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