Capitan Miranda (ROU schooner)
Encyclopedia
The Capitán Miranda is a three-masted staysail
schooner
of the Uruguayan Navy
Staysail
A staysail is a fore-and-aft rigged sail whose luff can be affixed to a stay running forward from a mast to the deck, the bowsprit or to another mast....
schooner
Schooner
A schooner is a type of sailing vessel characterized by the use of fore-and-aft sails on two or more masts with the forward mast being no taller than the rear masts....
of the Uruguayan Navy
History
- 1930
- Refit hydrographic surveyHydrographic surveyHydrographic survey is the science of measurement and description of features which affect maritime navigation, marine construction, dredging, offshore oil exploration/drilling and related disciplines. Strong emphasis is placed on soundings, shorelines, tides, currents, sea floor and submerged...
ship - 1978 Refit as sail trainingSail trainingFrom 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....
ship Renamed Capitán Miranda for Uruguayan Navy after the Uruguayan hydrographer Captain Francisco MirandaFrancisco MirandaFrancisco Miranda may refer to:*Francisco de Sá de Miranda, , Portuguese poet*Francisco de Miranda, , Spanish-American revolutionist...
(1868-1925) who served UruguayUruguayUruguay ,officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay,sometimes the Eastern Republic of Uruguay; ) is a country in the southeastern part of South America. It is home to some 3.5 million people, of whom 1.8 million live in the capital Montevideo and its metropolitan area...
as a cabinet officer, war secretary and later professor of marine geography at the Naval Academy of Uruguay. Home Port: MontevideoMontevideoMontevideo is the largest city, the capital, and the chief port of Uruguay. The settlement was established in 1726 by Bruno Mauricio de Zabala, as a strategic move amidst a Spanish-Portuguese dispute over the platine region, and as a counter to the Portuguese colony at Colonia del Sacramento...
Flag: Uruguay- MMSI number: 770576100
- Call sign: CWBE
External Links
- Capitan Miranda - official site