After completing the period of winter maintenance work for the general improvement of the structures, the training ship finally left on 4 June with full sails from the port of La Spezia Amerigo Vespucci, to carry out the first phase of the 2018 education campaign.
The "most beautiful ship in the world", under the command of the captain of ship Roberto Recchia, resumes sailing to ensure the training of the personnel of the Navy and, at the same time, carry around the world the values and history of the force armed and our country.
While browsing the 82 students Volunteers in Fixed Five-Year Stand (VFP4) of the Officers' School of La Maddalena, including 25 helmsmen and 57 machine technicians, will in fact be engaged on board alongside the 270 crew members in numerous educational and training activities in the field of maritime disciplines and ethical-military training, thanks to which take ownership of the values of loyalty, discipline and sense of duty and acquire the importance of teamwork, which characterizes each sailor in the performance of the tasks of the armed force serving the community.
After the first two stops in the ports of Palermo and Civitavecchia, theAmerigo Vespucci he will then return to the city of La Spezia, where he will participate from 19 to 23 June in the 6th edition of Seafuture 2018, an event dedicated to naval and maritime innovations and of strategic importance for the development of business opportunities for national and international " defense sector ".
The navigation will continue in the Tyrrhenian Sea with the stops of Genoa and Livorno, from where in July the students of the 1st class of the Naval Academy will embark to start the 2nd phase of the education campaign, which this year will see them engaged as anticipated by the commander Recchia in the Atlantic Ocean and Northern Europe "New this year will be the visit of Vespucci, for the first time in its history, to the Icelandic capital of Reykjavik".
