Sail training vessel Orsa Maggiore (A5323)
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| History | |
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| Name: | Orsa Maggiore |
| Operator: | Italian Navy |
| Builder: | Cantiere Navale Tencara Porto Marghera (Venezia) |
| Laid down: | 1994 |
| Launched: | November 1994 |
| Commissioned: | 28 November 1995 |
| In service: | 1 |
| Homeport: | La Spezia |
| Motto: | Ad maiora duco |
| Fate: | in service |
| Notes: | Pennant number A5323 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | ketch |
| Tonnage: | 80 tonnes |
| Length: | 28.3 m (92 ft 10 in) LOA |
| Beam: | 6.5 m (21 ft 4 in) |
| Draught: | 4.5 m (14 ft 9 in) |
| Speed: | 8.0 knots (14.8 km/h; 9.2 mph) |
| Endurance: | 2,200 nmi (4,100 km; 2,500 mi) on 7.0 knots (13.0 km/h; 8.1 mph) (with engine prop) |
| Complement: | 22 |
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Orsa Maggiore is a ocean ketch, serving as a sail training vessel for the Italian Navy.[1] It is an oceanic yacht racing armed as ketch of the Italian Navy's sail section.
History
Designed by Andrea Vallicelli, it was built using composite of carbon sandwich, kevlar and fiberglass, which made the structure of the hull lighter and simultaneously much more resistant than older wooden hulls. The design was considered innovative for its time.
The ship has been commissioned directly by the Italian Navy in order to have a hull that would give preference all the features to ensure maximum safety at sea in all the seas and oceans of the planet, with all conditions of sea and wind, and therefore capable to carry the National flag to wave even in the most remote ports in the world, particularly the less beaten by ships more of the Italian Navy.
References
- ↑ "Orsa Maggiore - Marina Militare". Marina.difesa.it. Retrieved 2016-12-02.
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