Colombian Flagship Gloria 2 #1

by Ann Johndro-Collins

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Colombian Flagship Gloria 2 #1

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Ann Johndro-Collins

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Photograph - Photography

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I had the pleasure of touring this beautiful ship in Tacoma, Washington in 2008. The ARC Gloria is a training ship and the official flagship of the Colombian Navy home ported in Cartagena, Colombia. ARC stands for Armanda Nacional de la Repubica de Colombia which translates into the Navy of the Republic of Colombia.

The history of the Gloria began in 1966, when the Colombian Government authorized the National Navy to acquire a three-masted barque as a training ship of the Colombian Navy. The Gloria was commissioned on September 7, 1968 at the Port of Bilbao, Spain.

She is over 257 feet long (one the biggest tall ships still afloat), has a sail area of 15,000sq-ft and displaces 1,300 tons. She is steel-hulled, but there is plenty of polished wood and brass and her masts and 23 sails give her an appearance of being even older than she is. Every step on the ship has the name Gloria embedded in solid brass escutcheon scuff-plates. Her figurehead, coated in glittering gold-leaf, is called Maria Salud, reputedly after the sculptor's daughter.

The Gloria has a full crew of 176, of whom up to 120 can be cadets. She sails around the world every year, has logged more than 600,000 nautical miles, and flies the largest ensign of any three-masted ship in the world . The ship's name is a reference to the national anthem, Oh Gloria Inmarcesible (O Unfading Glory).

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