The training ship of the Spanish Navy Juan Sebastian Elcano last stops were fired today from Cuba, in his tenth visit to the island, where he stopped over this 87 cruise instruction continues his trip to the US ports of Miami and Baltimore, before returning to Spain.
Several dozen people, Cubans and Spaniards gathered around the Cruise Terminal Havana, where the ship was stranded since last Wednesday to dismiss Elcano, which he spreads its sails past the fortress of El Morro to the northeast towards the port of Miami.
The BARQUENTINE of the Spanish Armada docked Wednesday in the port of Havana, with 261 crew on board, including 80 students in the fourth year of the Naval Academy who complete on this cruise four months training as naval officers.
Your stay coincided with the visit to the island of Spanish Foreign Minister in office, José Manuel García-Margallo, who on Sunday presided aboard the ship swears flag 29 Spanish citizens, most of them living in Cuba.
During the scale, Cubans could visit the ship and officers and sailors Spaniards developed a program of activities that included meetings with officials of the Revolutionary Navy and the Provincial Assembly of the Havana, besides visiting cultural and historical centers.
The Juan Sebastian Elcano sailed from Cadiz on March 5 last to start a journey that has already taken him to Santa Cruz de Tenerife (Spain), Fortaleza (Brazil), San Juan ( Puerto Rico), Havana (Cuba) and that after the US, completed in Marin, Galicia, where lies the Spanish Naval Academy.
With a length of 131.1 meters and a breadth of 13 meters, the flagship, which made its maiden voyage in 1928, sails under the command of Captain Victoriano Gilabert and features a staff of 23 officers, 23 petty officers and 140 sailors, civilians and four teachers.
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