ESMERALDA
Chile

TS Esmeralda characteristics

Steel-hulled four-masted barquentine

Laid down: 1946

Launched: May 12, 1953

Nickname: La Dama Blanca (The White Lady)

Displacement: 3673 tons

Length: 113 m (371 ft)

Beam: 13.11 m (43 ft)

Mast Height: 48.5 m (159 ft)

Draft: 7 m (23 ft)

Stanchion: 8.7 meters

Gunwale height: 5.3 meters

Maximum engine speed: 13 knots

Maximum sail speed: 17.5 knots

Armament: 4 × 57 mm ceremonial gun mounts

Crew: 300 sailors, 90 midshipmen

Sails: 21 total with a sail area of 2,870 m²

The steel-hulled, four-masted barquentine tall ship, which is the longest and second tallest sailing ship in the world.

The ship has been identified by Amnesty International as having been used as a floating jail and torture chamber for political prisoners in 1973.

The ship's sister ship is the training vessel for the Spanish Navy, the four-masted topsail schooner Juan Sebastián Elcano

Photo Credits: The Alexander Turnbull Library New Zealand

Cheers and GB

Gordy