The sailing school ship of the Navy, Amerigo Vespucci, after the usual winter maintenance stop, she is again ready to sail the seas and explain the large sails of the canvas to undertake the traditional 2020 Education Campaign in favor of the official students of the first class of the Naval Academy.
Monday 29 June, at 11 am, in the presence of the Chief of Staff of the Navy team admiral Giuseppe Cavo Dragone, the sailing ship will leave the mooring in the port of Livorno with a route towards the open sea under the command of the captain of the vessel Gianfranco Bacchus.
The departure from the port will take place after finishing the boarding operations of the 106 students of the 1st class of the normal role (including 2 foreign students), in compliance with the health protocols to ensure maximum safety to protect our crews and to limit the spread of the COVID - 19.
The Education Campaign aboard ship Vespucci represents a milestone in the training of official students. In the wake of a centuries-old tradition, but with an always renewed impulse to innovation, the official students will be engaged in numerous didactic and training activities in the field of seafaring disciplines and ethical-military training, in order to develop and nurture the values of loyalty, discipline and sense of duty. Through a team-based training course, which characterizes each sailor in carrying out the tasks of the armed force at the service of the community, each student receives the so-called "baptism of the sea".
The 2020 education campaign, heavily conditioned by the security measures in contrast to the spread of Coronavirus, is dedicated to all Italians who have lived in such a particular moment.
The ship is not open to the public during stops in the port, however it will be visible on every possible occasion of close passage in places of particular interest on the coast of our beloved country.
Ship Amerigo Vespucci it was launched on February 22, 1931 and, with 89 years of naval history, is today the oldest unit in service, entirely built and set up at the then Royal Shipyard of Castellamare di Stabia.
The 2020 education campaign will end in Taranto on August 22nd.
