Capitán Miranda (schooner)

	Capitán Miranda at Tall Ships Belfast, 2009
History
Uruguay
Name	Capitán Miranda
Ordered	January 1930
Builder	Sociedad Española de Construcción Naval, Cádiz
Laid down	3 March 1930
Launched	27 July 1930
Commissioned	1930
Decommissioned	1976
Recommissioned	1978
Reclassified	As a training ship, 1978
Homeport	Montevideo
Identification	MMSI number: 770576100; Call sign: CWBE;
Motto	Mare Magnum
Status	in active service, as of 2019
General characteristics
Type	Schooner
Displacement	839 long tons (852 t)
Length	64 m (210 ft 0 in) o/a
Beam	8 m (26 ft 3 in)
Draught	3.8 m (12 ft 6 in)
Propulsion	750 hp (559 kW) diesel engine, single 4-bladed screw
Sail plan	Marconi rig, sail area 853.35 m2 (9,185.4 sq ft)
Speed	10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Capacity	8 passengers
Complement	67

Capitán Miranda (ROU 20) is a three-masted staysail schooner of the Uruguayan Navy. Originally acquired by the Uruguayan Navy as a survey ship in 1930, the ship remained in service until 1976 in this role. Destined for the shipbreakers, the vessel was repurposed as a training ship in 1978.

Ship history

Capitán Miranda was ordered in January 1930 from the Spanish Sociedad Española de Construcción Naval shipyard at Cádiz. The vessel was laid down on 3 March and launched on 27 July 1930. As a hydrographic vessel she displaced 552 tons, with an overall length of 54.85 m (180.0 ft), and a beam of 8 m (26 ft). Capable of 12.5 knots (23.2 km/h; 14.4 mph), the ship was armed with a 37 mm cannon and a machine gun, and had a complement of 52. She was named after Captain Francisco Prudencio Miranda (1868–1925), Uruguayan naval officer and marine geographer.^[2]

Sea trials were completed on 19 November 1930, and on 21 November Capitán Miranda was delivered to the Uruguayan Navy. She served as a survey ship, charting the coasts and waters of Uruguay until 1976. She was then due to be scrapped, but instead was converted into a three-masted schooner. The conversion was completed by 20 October 1978, when she began in her new role as a training ship. Capitan Miranda has since participated in numerous international tall ship regattas.^[2]

Gallery

Aerean view ofCapitán Miranda
Gun on deck of Capitán Miranda
Capitán Miranda at Armada Rouen 2008
Bow and figurehead, Capitán Miranda, South Street Seaport, New York City May 2023
Accent jibs and stays, Capitán Miranda, South Street Seaport, New York City May 2023
Capitán Miranda, South Street Seaport, New York City May 2023

References

^ "Capitán Miranda : Características del buque". capitanmiranda.org.uy. 2012. Archived from the original on 7 August 2010. Retrieved 1 July 2012. (in Spanish)
^ ^a ^b "Buque Escuela Capitán Miranda". Asociación Española de Marina Civil. 15 June 2005. Retrieved 1 July 2012.^{[permanent dead link‍]} (in Spanish)

External links

Media related to IMO 6109101 at Wikimedia Commons
Capitan Miranda official site

[1] "Capitán Miranda : Características del buque". capitanmiranda.org.uy. 2012. Archived from the original on 7 August 2010. Retrieved 1 July 2012. (in Spanish)

[AEMC-2] "Buque Escuela Capitán Miranda". Asociación Española de Marina Civil. 15 June 2005. Retrieved 1 July 2012.^{[permanent dead link‍]} (in Spanish)

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