The ship was built under hull number 753 as a cargo ship by Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering in Scotland . It ran in 1951 under the name Ciudad de Barquisimeto from stack and served the Flota de la CAVN (trade fleet of Venezuela). In 1977 the ship was transferred to the state of Bolivia as a gesture of the government of Venezuela under President Carlos Andrés Pérez . A few months later, on March 23, 1978, the ship passed into the administration of the Navy of Bolivia and was renamed Libertador Bolívar . Since 1990 the ship has been listed in the Registro Naval Militar Boliviano with the designation TM-01.
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Since Bolivia does not have its own coast, Bolivian President Hugo Banzer Suárez made an agreement with the Argentine government in 1978 for a berth in the Argentine naval base of Puerto de Rosario. The naval base is located in the southeast of the city of Rosario on the Río Paraná .
The TM-01 was used by the navy of the inland Bolivia for nautical training for its relatives. It should ensure that the Bolivian Navy has trained members in the event the country regains access to the sea via a corridor and the Navy can again operate from a Bolivian port on the Pacific coast. At the end of the 1980s, the ship was decommissioned as a training ship.
