European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 24, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Story and Phi Root staff j4 passage under Mil of in the course of Days whatever there May be sen sow and sense to on individual in has soul is nol irus Shalub in lidded of be pedestrian land Conrad when the Amerigo Vespucci left its Winter quarters and Home port Al Lyl this Spring and picked up 1m naval cadets from inc naval Academy at leghorn or a rive month cruise Al that As much As anything else is what will be which of the cad cos can attune to life at sea and which ones figuratively cannot be pulled from the Vespucci is making its 44th training cruise and its permanent Crew of More than 260 officers and men Are pulling the cadets through All the basics of seamanship hat men Learned a Century and More ego when Lwy went in sea before inc and to learn what is now part of inc history and Mysti que of inc the cadets have what is considered to be one of inc most spectacular raining ships it won an award for being the most ejaculate and Best equipped in new York last summer after inc tall ships race to America for inc the three matted Cul rigged named for the Horn Olinc adventurer whose name was picked la Intel the new built in the Castellamare do Swabia shipyard near Naples in uh1 alone the lines or a 19th Century it Wai designed specifically As a training ship to hold the maximum number of cadets in the shortest water inc it is 330 feet Long no the tip of the has a beam Olsi feel and weighs its Mast and masts Are and under full sail it can carry feel of sail that with Wing Span out the main Mast is More than 200 feet Bui even among tall ships it is considered the performance under Sal limits its racing capability but it has been known to make 14 knots under sail in Strong says Oiler Boatswain Culdo Coccia who has been aboard for but seven or eight knots is More nearly driven by two horsepower Flat diesels it can reach a Speed of nine the Vespucci looks like a ship of a Century ago but within us Hull it is very ii has modern galleys and sleeping although the cadets and Crew members still use the quarters Are Oak and mahogany with double Decker the captains done in Isth Century contain expensive Art it carries a Hospital and Dunt at two evaporators for making fresh plus electrical generators and cower but topside the cadets and crewmen daily go through a Sailor s life of it is All lines and they constantly use one to adjust the Oiler for catching the wind most the cadets life Al sea is belaying lines and climbing rat lines to the Yards to furl and unfurl or to reef or lower them the Only time Seaman aboard have a Chance Tor free by Misti Spear writer time i when the ship is in its quest for the Vespucci docs not use modern synthetic lines to Call lines ropes unless they Are made of wire is heresy aboard ship but the older Type made of there Are 22 torn All renewed each splicing of lines and wire rope is done sail re pain Are hand to make things easier for the cadets when they first go aboard the pin rails Are labelled i the Vespucci had a sister ship until after the the Christofora but it we turned Over to the rus sians a part of War according to to humiliate she was stripped of her masts and made into a Coal Barge on the Volga he it is believed to be no longer in use and now rusting away on a Sandbar on the another version has it that the Colombo is somewhere on the perhaps in Yugoslavia or the Vespucci escaped similar Fate because it was making a Call at Dublin when the War when the Captain heard that the russians had seized the he said he would sail the ship to America if necessary to keep the Hussion from getting Cacila eventually the russians relented and the ship was allowed to sail Home to the Vespucci has been called a showboat and grandiose it surely but is still la an excellent platform for leaching cadets everything from knots to celestial Navi with Square feet of sail to ves Pecl i cadets Man quadruple wheel to hold the ship on belaying pins i Page 12 the stars and stripes
