Capitan Miranda (ROU 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:
Motto: Mare Magnum
Status: in active service, as of 2012
General characteristics [1]
Type: Schooner
Displacement: 839 long tons (852 t)
Length: 64 m (210 ft) o/a
Beam: 8 m (26 ft)
Draught: 3.8 m (12 ft)
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.

Ship history

The Capitán Miranda was ordered in January 1930 from the Spanish Sociedad Española de Construcción Naval shipyard at Cádiz, 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 the 21st 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. The Capitan Miranda has since participated in numerous international tall ship regattas.[2]

Capitan Miranda at sunset

References

  1. ↑ "Capitán Miranda : Características del buque". capitanmiranda.org.uy. 2012. Retrieved 1 July 2012. (Spanish)
  2. 1 2 "Buque Escuela Capitán Miranda". Asociación Española de Marina Civil. 15 June 2005. Retrieved 1 July 2012. (Spanish)
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