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The ''Guayas'' is a sail training ship of the Ecuadorian 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.〔 The ship's home base is Guayaquil, Ecuador. The ''Guayas'' is a three-masted barque with a steel hull that can display a sailing area of .〔(Chapman Great Sailing Ships of the World )〕 The main mast reaches over deck. The ship carries a crew of about 120 sailors as well as eighty cadets under the leadership of about 35 officers. The ''Guayas'' is one of four sailing ships that were built by Astilleros Celaya S.A. in Bilbao, the ''Gloria'' (Colombia) being the most similar ship,〔- the other two sister ships are the ''Simón Bolívar'' (Venezuela), and the ''Cuauhtémoc'' (Mexico). These four ships present a basic design that is very similar to Blohm & Voss' ''Gorch Fock'' that was built more than four decades earlier. As an ambassador of its country, the ''Guayas'' is a participant in tall ship regattas. In 2010 she participated in Velas Sudamerica 2010, an historical Latin American tour by eleven tall ships to celebrate the bicentennial of the first national governments of Argentina and Chile.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Velas Sudamerica 2010 )〕 The "Guayas" has also participated in OpSail 2012, visiting New York, Norfolk, Baltimore, and Boston, before proceeding to Europe. The most recent participation was in the ''Tall Ships' Race 2012''.〔(Listings of Tall Ships' Races )〕 In 2002 the ''Guayas'' undertook a voyage along the West coast of North America with port of calls at Acapulco, San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Seattle. In 2008 the ''Guayas'' crossed the Pacific ocean to visit Vladivostok, Japan, Korea, and China. On the Osaka-Pusan-Shanghai leg of this her first Asian trip the ''Guayas'' took aboard an officer of the Chinese navy for reefing training. Over her lifetime, by the end of 2008 the ''Guayas'' had visited 60 harbours in 25 countries and covered about . It is classified as a Class A Tall Ship by the International Sail Training Association and has the MMSI number 735059037. ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「BAE Guayas (BE-21)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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