Guayas (ship)
The Guayas (BE 21) is a sailing training ship of the Ecuadorian Navy . The Bark with steel hull ran on 23 October 1976 by the stack and was put into service on 23 July 1977th Her home port is Guayaquil , Ecuador. She has three sister ships: Cuauhtémoc ( Mexico ), Simón Bolívar ( Venezuela ) and Gloria ( Colombia ), all of which were built at the Astilleros Celaya shipyard in Bilbao , Spain. These four ships are very similar to the Gorch Fock class ships built by Blohm & Voss in the 1930s . Since its construction, the Guayas ship has primarily been used to train future naval officers. It has a crew of 155 men, including 35 officers. There are also 80 sea cadets . The Guayas regularly take part in sailing regattas around the world.
Technical specifications
- Displacement about 1250 t ,
- Length about 78.40 m,
- Width 10.60 m,
- Draft 4.50 m
Web links
Commons : Guayas (ship, 1977) - Collection of images, videos and audio files
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