Sail training vessel Orsa Maggiore (A5323)

Orsa Maggiore at Cádiz (Spain) in 2008
History
Name: Orsa Maggiore
Operator: Italian Navy
Builder: Cantiere Navale Tencara Porto Marghera (Venezia)
Laid down: 1994
Launched: November 1994
Commissioned: 28 November 1995
In service: 1
Homeport: La Spezia
Motto: Ad maiora duco
Fate: in service
Notes: Pennant number A5323
General characteristics
Type: ketch
Tonnage: 80 tonnes
Length: 28.3 m (92 ft 10 in) LOA
Beam: 6.5 m (21 ft 4 in)
Draught: 4.5 m (14 ft 9 in)
Speed: 8.0 knots (14.8 km/h; 9.2 mph)
Endurance: 2,200 nmi (4,100 km; 2,500 mi) on 7.0 knots (13.0 km/h; 8.1 mph) (with engine prop)
Complement: 22
Notes:
  • - 1 x diesel engine FIAT AIFO 8361 268.45 kW (360.00 bhp)
  • - 1 shaft
  • - 1 x diesel engine generator 13.5 kW (18.1 bhp)

Orsa Maggiore is a ocean ketch, serving as a sail training vessel for the Italian Navy.[1] It is an oceanic yacht racing armed as ketch of the Italian Navy's sail section.

History

Designed by Andrea Vallicelli, it was built using composite of carbon sandwich, kevlar and fiberglass, which made the structure of the hull lighter and simultaneously much more resistant than older wooden hulls. The design was considered innovative for its time.

The ship has been commissioned directly by the Italian Navy in order to have a hull that would give preference all the features to ensure maximum safety at sea in all the seas and oceans of the planet, with all conditions of sea and wind, and therefore capable to carry the National flag to wave even in the most remote ports in the world, particularly the less beaten by ships more of the Italian Navy.

References

  1. "Orsa Maggiore - Marina Militare". Marina.difesa.it. Retrieved 2016-12-02.
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