ARM Cuauhtémoc (BE01)

	Cuauhtémoc, 26 August 2012
History
Mexico
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
General characteristics
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
Sail plan	Barque; Sparred length: 296.9 ft (90.5 m); Sail area: 25,489 sq ft (2,368 m²);
Capacity	Fuel capacity: 220 tons; Water capacity: 110 tons;
Crew	186 officer and crew; 90 trainees;

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

References

American Sail Training Association; Sail Tall Ships! (American Sail Training Association; 16th edition, 2005 ISBN 0-9636483-9-X)

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