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The trainerilla (Spanish for 'little trainera') has a crew of 6 rowers and one cox, all sitting in a row. The batel or chipironier is a smaller boat used close to the coast for a variety of fish, with 4 rowers and a cox. The bateliku [10] is a smaller boat used close to the coast for a variety of fish, with 3 rowers and a cox. [11]
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The primary 3-inch gun of Atalaya. Atalaya is an offshore patrol vessel with a displacement of 1,200 tons. It is 68 m (223 ft 1 in) long, has a beam of 10 m (32 ft 10 in), and a draught of 3 m (9 ft 10 in).
Two of the Spanish units were later transferred to the Colombian Navy. Based on the German Type 143 Albatros-class vessels, the hull of the first unit was built in Germany and the rest were built in San Fernando, Cádiz, Spain in a similar way to that of the Barceló-class patrol boat, in 1976–1977.
Navantia is a Spanish state-owned shipbuilding dedicated to civil and military naval construction, the design of deep-tech systems [3] and the manufacture of structures for the renewable energy sector, such as offshore wind or hydrogen. [4] It was established in 2005 following the segregation of the military assets of the IZAR Group.
Juan Sebastián de Elcano is a training ship of the Spanish Navy.It is a four-masted topsail, steel-hulled barquentine (schooner barque).At 113 metres (371 ft) long, it is the third-largest tall ship in the world, and is the sailing vessel that has sailed the furthest, covering more than 2,000,000 nautical miles (3,700,000 km; 2,300,000 mi) in its lifetime.
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Once out of sight of the coast, Portuguese and Spanish ship pilots could rely upon the astrolabe and quadrant to determine their location on a north–south reference, however longitude was noticeably more difficult to acquire. The problem was time. Out on the vast stretches of the ocean, it is very difficult to keep track of time once leaving ...