Juan Sebastian Elcano

The story of Juan Sebastian Elcano

Juan Sebastian de Elcano is a large, four-masted, steel-hulled, fully equipped barquentine vessel used by the Royal Spanish Navy to train its cadets. She was built at the Echevarrieta y Larrinaga shipyard in Cadiz, Spain, and launched in 1927. Arguably a type of schooner, she was named after the Spanish explorer Juan Sebastian Elcano, captain of Ferdinand Magellan's last voyage, circumnavigating the world in 1522.

Her sister ship, Esmeralda, was built in 1954 to the same design plan as the Chilean Navy, and was also a training ship for naval cadets.

Spain has two naval academies, the Royal Spanish Academy of Naval Engineers is one of the oldest military schools in the world, established in Ferrol, Spain in 1772. The purpose of the school was to train marine engineers to rival the English and French academies of the time.

The second school became the Naval Military School in Marin, Spain, where their current naval officers were trained. The Naval Military School trains cadets in a five-year program. Parts of the first, second and third years are devoted to teaching. In the third year, the entire class was assigned to the Juan Sebastian de Elcano on an 8-month cruise with experienced seamen and Spanish naval officers, the largest in the world. Learn the art of sailing aboard one of the tall ships.

Teaching and serving on modern steel ships of the Spanish Navy for the past two years.

Juan Sebastian de Elcano has a long and clean line, her hull is 370 ft (113 m) long and the beam is 43 ft 9 in (13.11 m). Sailboats differ from motor sailboats in that they have a slightly deeper draft than the bow - 21 ft 5 in (6,570 m) aft and 21 ft 4 in (6,524 m) at the bow. Her steel hull and turbocharged single-shaft diesel engine produce 2,000 horsepoweran arrangement that makes her heavier than an all-wood sailboat of the same size.

She displaces 2,983 tons by default and 3,670 tons when heavy. Her four masts are named after former naval ships - White, Almansa, Asturias and Nautilus. The cadets were assigned to maintain one of the masts and to stow and stow the sails as needed.

Fully assembled and under sail, the sail area is up to 30,892 sq ft, propelling the vessel to a surface speed of 17.5 knots (32.4 km/h). The turbo diesel engine can reach up to 13 knots (32.0 km/h). When properly equipped, the Juan Sebastian Elcano has a range of 10,500 nautical miles (19,448 km) and a speed of 6 knots.

For work on board, the standard crew consists of 300 officers and seafarers, accommodating 90 Naval Academy cadets during the training cycle.

The cadets volunteer to climb a rope ladder on the side of the boat, which is attached to a mast called a rat rope. Climbing it is difficult because its mast is 159 feet (48.5 m) highalmost the height of a 16-story building. Once they reach the designated sail, the work begins.

The tallest sail is the tallest sail on the mast. After liftoff, the men were placed at the end of the yard, called the yard jib, the wooden support on top of the sail. The command to deploy the sail is "Let Fall," and when the command is given, the man releases the sail at the end of the yard before releasing the batting or center portion of the sail. The bunts were not released first, as the sails would quickly fill up with the wind, which could knock someone off the pole in the yard, likely to his death.

This is part of the seafarer training of cadets assigned to ships to obtain the required seafarer rating.

Like most ships of her era, the Juan Sebastian Elcano has undergone extensive updates and refits during her long life cycle. A refrigeration system was added, and both living and interior spaces have been expanded since then. Air conditioning in all rooms is clearly a crew favorite. She needs a new small water treatment plant to convert seawater into freshwater.

Timely upgrades to the human sewage plant, Sperry gyroscopes and generators are also needed.

Juan Sebastian de Elcano completed her sea trials in 1928 and entered service when she was sent to perform her first Training missions while traveling the world like Captain de El Canto did for Magellan in 1522. The voyage lasted 10 months and the new ship visited 20 ports and showcased the world's third tallest ship. Since then, she has continued to travel the world flying the Spanish flag.

She is also used to visiting the country during cultural events, as she did during Fleet Week 2012 in New York City and the Bicentennial of the War of 1812 between the United States and Great Britain during the 2012 European Games. The Juan Sebastian de Elcano has sailed over 1,500,000 nautical miles in ports around the world.

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