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History
The Juan Sebastián Elcano is a training ship for the Royal
Spanish Navy. She is a four-masted topsail, steel-hulled
schooner. At 113 metres (370 feet) long, she is the
third-largest Tall Ship in the world.
She is named after Spanish explorer Juan Sebastián Elcano,
captain of Ferdinand Magellan's last exploratory fleet. The
ship also carries the de Elcano coat of arms, which was
granted to the family by Emperor Charles I following
Elcano's return in 1522 from Magellan's global expedition.
The coat of arms is a terraqueous globe with the motto
"Primus Circumdedisti Me" (meaning: "First to circumnavigate
me").
The Juan Sebastián de Elcano was built in 1927 in Cadiz,
Spain, and her hull was designed by the Echevarrieta y
Larrińaga shipyard in Cadiz. Her plans were also used
twenty-five years later to construct her Chilean sail
training vessel sister ship Esmeralda in 1952-1954.
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