Gloria (ship)
 The Gloria on July 23, 2007
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The Gloria is a sailing training ship and the flagship of the Colombian Navy (Spanish: Armada de la República de Colombia ).
history
At the end of 1966, the Colombian government announced the construction of a sailing ship as a training ship for its navy worldwide . The plan was to build a barque . The Astilleros y Talleres Celaya shipyard in Bilbao , Spain , won this tender. The ship was built in 1967–1968 under hull number 88. The launch took place on December 2, 1967. The handover to the Colombian Navy took place on May 16, 1969.
The Gloria was the first and smallest of four sailing training ships built in Bilbao for Latin American navies. This was followed by the Guayas for Ecuador (1976), the Simon Bolivar for Venezuela (1979) and the Cuauhtémoc for Mexico (1982). These four ships are very similar to the Gorch Fock class ships built by Blohm & Voss in the 1930s .
Technical equipment
The Gloria is designed for long journeys. The ship has lecture halls for lessons on board and the most modern navigation instruments for long voyages. In 1970 it made a circumnavigation of the world and covered 27,455 nautical miles .
literature
- Ricardo Magrini: Ships Neuer Kaiser Verlag, 2006 ISBN 3-7043-1422-6 page 124
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mexico's “Gorch Fock” on a visit to Kiel , from: August 13, 2019; accessed on: August 13, 2019
- ^ European sailing information system. Gorch Fock (I) and her sisters - a comparison , accessed on: August 13, 2019