Cuauhtémoc, 26 August 2012
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Name: | 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 |
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Class and type: | Steel-hulled sail training vessel |
Displacement: | 1,800 tons |
Length: | 220 ft 4 in (67.16 m) waterline |
Beam: | 39 ft 4 in (11.99 m) |
Draft: | 17.7 ft (5.4 m) |
Installed power: | 1,125 hp (839 kW) Auxiliary engine |
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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, 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.
Cuauhtémoc at Halifax, Nova Scotia, 31 July 2004
Line art of the Cuauhtémoc