ARM Cuauhtémoc (BE01)
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.
Cuauhtémoc, 26 August 2012 | |
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| Name | Cuauhtémoc |
| Builder | Astilleros Celaya S.A., Bilbao, Spain |
| Launched | January 9, 1982 |
| Commissioned | July 29, 1982 |
| Homeport | Acapulco, Mexico |
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| Status | in active service |
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| 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 |
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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.
Built at the Celaya Shipyards in Bilbao, she was designed by Naval Engineer Juan José Alonso Verástegui. Her keel was laid on July 24, 1981, and she was delivered to the Mexican Navy in Bilbao on July 29, 1982.
Her first commander was Captain Manuel Zermeño del Peón, in command of a crew of cadets from the Mexican Naval Academy who received the ship and brought Cuauhtémoc home to Mexico.
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 38 years of service, with appearances at the Cutty Sark Tall Ships' Races, ASTA Tall Ships Challenges, Sail Osaka, and others.