Schoolship Amerigo Vespucci |
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"You are the most beautiful Ship in the world", this was the message once radioed to the bridge
of the "Amerigo Vespucci" Italian Navy schoolship. A three masts sailing ship, with square
sails and jibs, the "Vespucci" is for sure one of the most well known Ambassadors of Italy in
the major foreign harbor towns.
Representing Italy and its Navy is only one of the ship tasks, her main role being training: helmsmen and, at the end of the school year, Officer Cadets who conclude their first year at the Livorno Naval Academy, embark on the "Vespucci". Future Italian Navy officers start their sea life on board the "Vespucci" since the early thirties: the ship was launched in 1931 at the Royal Arsenal in Castellamare di Stabia, near Naples. 82.38 m (270.28 ft.) long, 100.5 m (329.72 ft.) considering the bowsprit, 15.56 m (51.05 ft.) wide and 6.65 m (21.82 ft.) tall, with a seven meters (22.97 ft.) draught, the "Vespucci" has a full load displacement of 4,145 m.tons. When sails are in use steerage is normally provided by the stern manual rudder station, equipped with four steering wheels activated by eight helmsmen; on the bridge we find the electro-hydraulic bow rudder station, used when sailing on engines, while in the same structure we find the chart-room used for Cadets training. Between tradition and electronics - the ship does not lack the most updated detection and navigation systems - the "Vespucci" complement of 276 men, augmented in summertime by some 100 Cadets from the Naval Academy, bring each year the "old lady" and the Italian flag, with the symbols of the four Marine Republics, on the seas of all the world.
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