| ARM Cuauhtémoc (BE01) | |
|---|---|
 Cuauhtémoc, 26 August 2012 | |
| Career (Mexico) |  |
| Name: | ARM Cuauhtémoc |
| Builder: | Astilleros Celaya S.A., Bilbao, Spain |
| Launched: | January 9, 1982 |
| Commissioned: | July 29, 1982 |
| Homeport: | Acapulco, Mexico |
| Identification: | Pennant number: BE01 |
| Status: | in active service, as of 2024[update] |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type: | Steel-hulled sail training vessel |
| Displacement: | 1,800 tons |
| Length: | 220 ft 4 in (67.2 m) waterline |
| Beam: | 39 ft 4 in (12 m) |
| Draft: | 17.7 ft (5.4 m) |
| Installed power: | 1,125 hp (839 kW) Auxiliary engine |
| Sail plan: |
Barque |
| Capacity: |
Fuel capacity: 220 tons |
| Crew: |
186 officer and crew |
ARM Cuauhtémoc is a sail training vessel of the Mexican Navy, named for the last Mexica Hueyi Tlatoani Cuauhtémoc who was captured and executed in 1525.
She is the last of four sister ships built by the Naval Shipyards of Bilbao, Spain, in 1982, all built to a design similar to the 1930 designs of the German firm Blohm & Voss, like Gorch Fock, USCGC Eagle and the NRP Sagres.
Like her sister ships, the Colombia's Gloria, Ecuador's Guayas and Venezuela's Simón Bolívar, Cuauhtémoc is a sailing ambassador for her home country and a frequent visitor to world ports, having sailed over 400,000 nautical miles (700,000 km) in her 23 years of service, with appearances at the Cutty Sark Tall Ships' Races, ASTA Tall Ships Challenges, Sail Osaka, and others.
References[]
- American Sail Training Association; Sail Tall Ships! (American Sail Training Association; 16th edition, 2005 ISBN 0-9636483-9-X)
External links[]
- (Spanish) Official Website of the Mexican Navy
- American Sail Training Association
- Four slideshows with Cuauhtémoc from the Tall Ships' Races 2007 in Aarhus, Denmark by Thorsten Overgaard
- The Cuauhtémoc at Hanse Sail 2007 in Warnemünde, Germany
- Figurehead (close-up) of the Cuauhtémoc during docking in San Francisco July 2009
- The Cuauhtémoc in Odessa, Ukraine August 2011
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