ARA Presidente Sarmiento
{{Short description|1897 sail training ship}}
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{{Infobox ship image |Ship image=Buque Museo Fragata Presidente Sarmiento.jpg |Ship caption=Moored at Puerto Madero, Buenos Aires }} {{Infobox ship career |Ship country=Argentina |Ship flag={{shipboxflag|Argentina|government}} |Ship name=Presidente Sarmiento |Ship namesake=Domingo Faustino Sarmiento |Ship ordered= |Ship builder=Laird Brothers, Birkenhead, England |Ship laid down= |Ship launched=31 August 1897 |Ship acquired= |Ship commissioned= |Ship decommissioned= |Ship in service=1897 |Ship out of service=1961 |Ship struck= |Ship reinstated= |Ship honours= |Ship fate= |Ship status=Museum ship in Buenos Aires, Argentina |Ship notes= }} {{Infobox ship characteristics |Hide header= |Header caption= |Ship type=Sail training ship |Ship displacement=2,750 tonnes |Ship length={{convert|81|m|abbr=on}} |Ship beam={{convert|13.11|m|abbr=on}} |Ship draught={{convert|5.64|m|abbr=on}} |Ship draft= |Ship propulsion=Steam, 3-cylinder compound, {{convert|1000|hp|abbr=on}}, ship rig |Ship speed= |Ship range= |Ship complement= |Ship sensors= |Ship EW= |Ship armament= |Ship armour= |Ship armor= |Ship aircraft= |Ship aircraft facilities= |Ship notes= }} {{designation list|embed=yes|designation1=Argentina}} |
ARA Presidente Sarmiento is a museum ship in Argentina, originally built as a training ship for the Argentine Navy and named after Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, the seventh President of Argentina. It is considered to be the last intact cruising training ship from the 1890s.{{cite book |author=Brouwer, Norman J. |title=The international register of historic ships |publisher=Chatham Pub |location=London |year=1999 |isbn=0-930248-11-2 }}
History
The ship was originally built for the Argentine Naval Academy. ARA Presidente Sarmiento made thirty seven annual training cruises including six circumnavigations of the globe. The ship was retired as a seagoing vessel in 1938, but continued to serve without sails on Argentine rivers around 1950 and as a stationary training ship until 1961.
It is now maintained in its original 1898 appearance as a museum ship in Puerto Madero near downtown Buenos Aires.
Propulsion and auxiliaries
= Rigging =
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= Engine =
In addition to its sailing rig this ship includes a large triple expansion steam engine supplied by two coal-fired boilers exhausting through the rear stack. An additional auxiliary boiler exhausting through the forward stack provides steam for other than propulsion, including two engines driving electrical generators on the main deck (below the weather deck).
==Fuel==
A single coal bunker is positioned between the main and auxiliary boiler rooms
=Steering=
A three-wheel chain drive allows up to six helmsmen to control the rudder. Such a crew of operators was not always required due to the inclusion of an electric servo-drive for normal operation but was useful for the training of cadets.
Armament
= Artillery =
File:Argentina-02164 - 5 Inch Gun (49024499187).jpg
Four Armstrong gun mounts are positioned amidships, two on each side, with additional smaller weapons. The museum information indicates those as 5-inch pieces, but Norman Friedman identifies those as 120-mm L45 Elswick Pattern Y. Documentation on the ship shows these having had some armor, but the present installations are bare.
= Torpedoes =
A single torpedo scuttle using gravity expulsion exited at the bow. The scuttle has been removed and the exit port welded shut, but in the current museum configuration a torpedo is suspended in a position on the main deck ready to enter the former scuttle entrance. Additional torpedo storage is provided below this main deck.
Historic images
File:Sarmiento (1873).jpg|1873 image of the ship's namesake
File:Presidente Sarmiento 1909.jpg|1909 image of the ship
File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_102-00126%2C_Hamburg%2C_Argentinisches_Schulschiff.jpg|Capitan A. Brana and staff, Hamburg, 1923
File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_102-12316,_Bremerhafen,_Argentinisches_Schulschiff,_Kadetten.jpg|Cadets honor guests, Bremerhaven, 1931
File:Biblioteca del Senado de la Provincia - 49 - Cincuentenario de la Fragata Sarmiento.jpg|Publication allusive to its fiftieth anniversary, 1947
Museum
It is moored in Puerto Madero close to the Bicentennial Plaza and is now the ARA Presidente Sarmiento Frigate Museum.Google Satellite View, accessed March 11, 2023
See also
{{Portal|Argentina}}
- ARA Uruguay, a smaller historic tall ship moored nearby in basin number three.
- Argentine peso moneda nacional; the ship was featured on the 5 peso coin from 1961 to 1968.{{Cite web |url=http://mycoins.co/1965-argentina-5-pesos |title=1965 Argentina 5 Peso |access-date=2011-01-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110707053704/http://mycoins.co/1965-argentina-5-pesos |archive-date=2011-07-07 |url-status=dead }}
References
= Notes =
{{Reflist}}
= Bibliography =
- {{cite journal |last1=Eger|first1=Christopher L.|title=Hudson-Fulton Naval Celebration, Part I|journal=Warship International|date=2012|volume=XLIX|issue=2 |pages=123–151|issn=0043-0374}}
- {{cite journal |last1=Eger|first1=Christopher L.|title=Hudson Fulton Celebration, Part II|journal=Warship International|date=March 2021|volume=LVIII |issue=1 |pages=58–81 |issn=0043-0374}}
External links
{{Commons category|Presidente Sarmiento (ship, 1897)}}
- [https://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Buenos+Aires&sll=37.892587,-122.080977&sspn=0.016459,0.013304&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Buenos+Aires,+Argentina&t=h&ll=-34.608897,-58.365689&spn=0.001616,0.003471&z=18 Google Maps location of the Presidente Sarmiento]
- {{cite web
| title = Buque Museo Fragata Presidente Sarmiento
| publisher = Armada Argentina
| url = http://www.ara.mil.ar/pag.asp?idItem=112
| access-date = December 26, 2009
| archive-date = September 28, 2013
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130928051426/http://www.ara.mil.ar/pag.asp?idItem=112
| url-status = dead
}}
- [https://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ara.mil.ar%2Fpag.asp%3FidItem%3D112&sl=es&tl=en Google translation of above]
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