ARC Gloria

The Gloria on 23 July 2007

The ARC Gloria is a sail training vessel and the flagship of the Colombian Navy, Spanish Armada de la República de Colombia.

History

The end of 1966, the Colombian government wrote most of the construction of a sailing ship as a training ship for their navy. The plan was to build a Bark. The shipyard Astilleros y Talleres Celaya in Bilbao, Spain won this tender competition.

The ship was built in the years 1967-1968 under the hull number 88. The launch took place on 2 December 1967. The handover took place at the Colombian Navy on 16 May 1969. She was the first and smallest of four ships that were built there for Latin American navies. It was followed by the Guayas Ecuador (1976 ), the Simon Bolivar of Venezuela (1979) and the Cuauhtémoc Mexico (1982).

Technical Equipment

The Gloria is designed for long journeys. The ship has classrooms for lessons on board and most modern navigation instruments for Great ride. 1970, it undertook a voyage around the world and put it back 27 455 nautical miles.