ARC Gloria
ARC Gloria at sunset in Cartagena.
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| Name: | Gloria |
| Ordered: | 6 October 1966 |
| Builder: | Astilleros Celaya S.A., Bilbao, Spain |
| Commissioned: | 7 September 1968 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Barque |
| Displacement: | 1,300 tons |
| Length: | 64.7 metres (212 ft) |
| Beam: | 10.6 metres (35 ft) |
| Draft: | 6.6 metres (22 ft) |
| Propulsion: | Diesel, 500 hp |
| Sail plan: | 1,400 square metres (15,000 sq ft) |
| Speed: | 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) under power |
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The ARC Gloria (IMO 8642555) is a three-masted barque. She is a training ship and official flagship of the Colombian Navy.
The Colombian Government authorized its navy to acquire a training ship in 1966. A contract was signed with the Spanish shipyard Celaya of Bilbao in October 1966, and began to be fulfilled in April 1967. The ship was commissioned on 7 September 1968 with the vessel moored at the wharf of Deusto Channel. She is one of four similar barques built as sail training vessels for Latin American navies; her half-sisters are the Mexican Cuauhtémoc, the Venezuelan Simón Bolívar and the Ecuadoran Guayas. Their design is similar to the 1930 designs of the German firm Blohm & Voss, like Gorch Fock, USCGC Eagle and the NRP Sagres.
The ship's name is a reference to the national anthem, Oh gloria inmarcesible (O Unfading Glory).
Armada Nacional República de Colombia
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