The training ship landed this morning in Istanbul, Turkey Palinuro of the Navy, where it will remain parked until Saturday 11 August.
Ship Palinuro is engaged in its 54ª education campaign and embarks 33 students marshals of the course "Kratos" of the Non-commissioned School of Taranto who, on board the ship, will learn the nautical and maritime sciences acquiring a direct knowledge of the various activities associated with the exercise of profession of "going by sea" in order to root an adequate mastery and confidence with the future working environment.
The unit started last 23 July from the port of Taranto and, after stopping in Kos and now in Istanbul, will stop in Constanta, Batumi, Kefalonia and then return to Italy in Reggio Calabria and finally Livorno where the students marshals will disembark at the end of the training campaign.
During the 2018 training campaign, Palinuro carries the flag of the Gaslini of Genoa, donated to the ship by the president of the Pediatric Hospital last 17 May in La Spezia, on the occasion of the 80 years of the institute.
Fans of sailing tradition and the simple curious can instead visit Nave Palinuro on the following days:
- 6 August, from 16: 00 to 19: 00;
- 7 August, from 10: 00 to 12: 00;
- 8-9-10 August, from 10: 00 to 12: 00 and from 16: 00 to 19: 00.
