ARA Uruguay
The Uruguay is a sail training ship ( barque, originally Corvette ) with a steam engine of the Argentine Navy. After many years of service with a variety of tasks it is now a museum ship at the Boca Bridge in the port of Buenos Aires.
History
Launched and Dimensions
The Corvette ran in 1873 at Laird in Birkenhead ( UK ) from the stack. Her hull was made of iron, but received a wooden planking. Your technical dimensions were:
- Length: 46.4 m
- Width: 7.6 m
- Draught 3.0 m
- Displacement: 513.0 ts
- Masts: 3
- Sailing: 10
- Sail area: 557 m²
- Crew: 11 men and 40 cadets
Later, the rigging was changed, and out of the Corvette was a Bark.
Name
The Uruguay carries not the name of a foreign state ( especially since this is occasionally found in the 19th century at war with Argentina), but one of the greatest Argentinean inland rivers, the Rio Uruguay. In fact, both the training ship and the State Uruguay derive their name from this same river.
The military camp Corbeta Uruguay in turn was named after the corvette Uruguay.
Nordenskjold Rescue
In 1901, the Swedish Antarctic Expedition under Otto Nordenskiöld was broken to the Antarctic Peninsula to explore the local geological conditions. A team of six wintered on Snow Hill Iceland. As the pack ice, the ship of the expedition, the Antarctic mashed, to whose team rescued the Paulet Island Iceland. The Uruguay in 1903 was sent by the Argentine government to return the researchers to the Falkland Islands, which she also managed. With this feat, the Uruguay was a term used in the world.
Later years
By 1930, the Uruguay of the Argentine Navy served as a survey ship. After removal from the active duty, she found nevertheless still as a depot ship use.
Current usage
Since 1982, Uruguay is moored as a museum ship at a fixed mooring, namely at the Boca Bridge in Buenos Aires. The hull reminds a special to the Nordenskjold - deliverance in the Arctic Ocean.