Guayas (ship)
BAE Guayas at Mar del Plata, February 2010
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| Name: | Guayas |
| Owner: | Armada del Ecuador |
| Builder: | Astilleros Celaya S.A., Bilbao, Spain |
| Yard number: | 157 |
| Launched: | September 23, 1976 |
| Completed: | July 23, 1977 |
| Commissioned: | July 23, 1977 |
| Homeport: | Guayaquil, Ecuador |
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| Status: | in active service |
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| Type: | Steel-hulled barque |
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| Displacement: | 1,300 tons |
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| Beam: | 10.16 m (33 ft 4 in) |
| Draught: | 4.40 m (14 ft 5 in) |
| Depth: | 6.60 m (21 ft 8 in) |
| Propulsion: | General Motors diesel, 700 hp (520 kW) |
| Sail plan: | 1,410 m2 (15,200 sq ft) |
| Capacity: | 80 trainees |
| Crew: | 35 officers and 120 crew |
The Guayas is a sail training ship of the Ecuadorian Navy. Launched in 1976 it was named in jointly in honor of Chief Guayas, the Guayas river, and Guayas, the first steamship that was constructed in South America in 1841 and is displayed on the Ecuadorian coat of arms. The ship's home base is Guayaquil, Ecuador.
The Guayas is a three-masted barque with a steel hull that can display a sailing area of 1,410 square metres (15,200 sq ft). The main mast reaches 38 metres (124 ft 8 in) over deck. The ship carries a crew of about 120 sailors as well as eighty cadets under the leadership of about 35 officers. The Guayas is one of four sailing ships that were built by Astilleros Celaya S.A. in Bilbao, the Gloria (Colombia) being the most similar ship; the other two sister ships are the Simón Bolívar (Venezuela), and the Cuauhtémoc (Mexico). These four ships basic design is very similar to Blohm & Voss' Gorch Fock that was built more than four decades earlier.
It is classified as a Class A Tall Ship by the International Sail Training Association and has the MMSI number 735059037.
As an ambassador of its country, the Guayas is a participant in tall ship regattas.
In 2010 she participated in Velas Sudamerica 2010, an historical Latin American tour by eleven tall ships to celebrate the bicentennial of the first national governments of Argentina and Chile.
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