ARM Cuauhtémoc is a sail training

Sail training

From its modern interpretations to its antecedents when maritime nations would send young naval officer candidates to sea , sail training provides an unconventional and effective way of building many useful skills on and off the water....

 vessel of the Mexican Navy, named for the last Aztec

Aztec

The Aztec people were certain ethnic groups of central Mexico, particularly those groups who spoke the Nahuatl language and who dominated large parts of Mesoamerica in the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries, a period referred to as the late post-classic period in Mesoamerican chronology.Aztec is the...

 Emperor Cuauhtémoc

Cuauhtémoc

Cuauhtémoc was the Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan from 1520 to 1521...

 who was captured and executed in 1525.

She is the last of four sister ship

Sister ship

A sister ship is a ship of the same class as, or of virtually identical design to, another ship. Such vessels share a near-identical hull and superstructure layout, similar displacement, and roughly comparable features and equipment...

s built by the Naval Shipyards of Bilbao

Bilbao

Bilbao ) is a Spanish municipality, capital of the province of Biscay, in the autonomous community of the Basque Country. With a population of 353,187 , it is the largest city of its autonomous community and the tenth largest in Spain...

, Spain

Spain

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, in 1982, all built to a design similar to the 1930 designs of the German firm Blohm & Voss, like Gorch Fock

Gorch Fock (1933)

The Gorch Fock I is a German three-mast barque, the first of a series built as school ships for the German Reichsmarine in 1933. She was taken as war reparations by the USSR after World War II and renamed Tovarishch...

, and the NRP Sagres.

Like her sister ships, the Colombia's , Ecuador's Guayas

Guayas (ship)

The Guayas is a sail training ship of the Ecuadoran Navy. Launched in 1976 it was named in jointly in honor of Chief Guayas, the Guayas river, and Guayas, the first steamship that was constructed in South America in 1841 and is displayed on the Ecuadorian coat of arms...

 and Venezuela's Simón Bolívar

Simón Bolívar (barque)

Simón Bolívar is a training vessel for the Venezuelan Navy. She sails from the home port of La Guaira and is a frequent participant in tall ship events. She is named after Simón Bolívar, the liberator of Bolivia, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Panama and Venezuela.-Design:Simón Bolívar was built in the...

, Cuauhtémoc is a sailing ambassador for her home country and a frequent visitor to world ports, having sailed over 400000 nautical miles (740,800 km) in her 23 years of service, with appearances at the Cutty Sark Tall Ships' Races, ASTA

American Sail Training Association

Founded on April 3, 1973, by Barclay Harding Warburton III, the American Sail Training Association is currently the largest sail training association in the world and a founding member of Sail Training International....

 Tall Ships Challenge

Tall Ships Challenge

The Tall Ships Challenge is an annual event organized by the American Sail Training Association alternating in a three year cycle between the Great Lakes, the Pacific and the Atlantic coasts of North America....

s, Sail Osaka, and others.

External links

Official Website of the Mexican Navy

• American Sail Training Association
• Four slideshows with Cuauhtémoc from the Tall Ships' Races 2007 in Aarhus, Denmark by Thorsten Overgaard/WireImage/GettyImages
• The Cuauhtémoc at Hanse Sail 2007 in Warnemünde, Germany
• Figure head (close-up) of the Cuauhtémoc during docking in San Francisco July 2009
• The Cuauhtémoc in Odessa, Ukraine August 2011