European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 31, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                You can find Many destroyers subs Undal Cratt carriers in the world s navies but you won t find another vessel like this one capt. Sergio Santl. Up /. King Cruger my Titi Prunean Bureau stoutes sailing ship afloat there Are bigger faster and More modern sail training vessels but none As spectacular As Italy s Amerigo Vespucci. The Black and White hulled three masted ship is a gleaming replica of an Early 19th-Century frigate. Although engines and a propeller have been added and the 110 guns that would have bristled from its decks Are absent the Square rigged vessel is a dramatic throwback to warships of old. From Bowsprit tip to ornately gilded Stern the italian naval vessel stretches 328 stately feet. With a 50-foot beam seamen Call it the stoutest sailing ship afloat. From Bowsprit tip to ornately gilded Stern the italian naval vessel stretches 328 stately feet. With a 50-foot beam seamen Call it the stoutest sailing ship afloat. It s a strange ship to see with 1989 eyes. You can find Many destroyers subs and aircraft carriers in the world s navies but you won t find another vessel like this one said capt. Sergio Santi 47, the Vespucci s skipper. There in t a More luxurious naval vessel afloat. It s number one. I Don t say this. Others say it said Santi As the Vespucci slowed Tho Adriatic on a two Day 200-mile, mid May voyage from Taranto on the Eastern instep of the italian Boot to Catania Sicily. The ship with its permanent Crew of 278 men including 16 officers and 65 Petty officers is on a Mediterranean Shakedown trip before picking up 150 naval cadets for a three month 13,000 mile summer cruise the cadets will join Vespucci for sail training. Their training in old fashioned Marlin Spike seamanship will Cap their first year at the italian naval Academy at Livorno. While All cadets will be strangers to the ship they will have had plenty of exposure to the fearsome Heights they la contend with aloft aboard Vespucci. For months they be drilled aboard towering Square rigged Clinti Nudon pages 14and 15 wednesday. May 31, 1989 the stars and stripes Page 13