Built as a sailing training vessel under yard No 401 by MTG-Dolphin PLC, Varna Bulgaria for Top Sail Ltd., Varna, Bulgaria.
10 October 2008 laid down.
29 August 2009 launched as the ROYAL HELENA.
Tonnage 254 grt, 402 dwt, dim. 54.00 x 8.20 x 3.93 (draught).
Auxiliary engine: One Volvo Penta D12D-C MH diesel, 450 hp, speed 8 knots. Under full sail 12 knots. Has three Caterpillar C 4.4DIT generators of 56.4 kW.
Bunker capacity 35,000 liters, freshwater 30,000 liters.
Rigged as a three-masted barquentine, 16 sails, total sail area 1000m³.
Passenger capacity, 100 for day or evening trips, 47 passengers for weekend trips.
31 August 2009 completed, homeport Varna.
After completing used in the Black Sea.
August 2018 sold to the Dominican Navy and renamed in ARD ALMIRANTE JUAN BAUTISTA CAMBIASO (BE-01).
Accommodation for 37 cadets.
JUAN BAUTISTA CAMBIASO (BE-01) is a training ship for the Dominican Navy. Launched in 2009, it is a three-masted barquentine (schooner barque) with a hull made of steel and a teak-covered deck. It is named after Genoese-born Dominican Admiral Juan Bautista Cambiaso, who founded the Dominican Navy in 1844.
JUAN BAUTISTA CAMBIASO was launched on 29 August 2009 in Varna, Bulgaria. The ship — originally named ROYAL HELENA— was acquired by the Dominican Navy in August 2018 and named in honor of Admiral Juan Bautista Cambiaso, founder of the Dominican Navy, who defeated the Haitian navy in the Battle of Tortuguero. During this engagement, a force of three Dominican schooners led by then-Commander Juan Bautista Cambiaso (at the helm of the flagship schooner SEPARACIÓN DOMINICANA defeated a force of three warships of the Haitian Navy, ensuring naval supremacy for the newborn nation.
The ship replaces an earlier training ship of the same name, acquired from the Canadian Navy in 1947. That ship, a motor-ship of the corvette class, had previously been named HMCS BELLVILLE. It was scrapped by the Dominican Navy in 1972.
Description
JUAN BAUTISTA CAMBIASO is a barquentine. She is 54 meters (177 ft 2 in) long with a beam of 8 meters (26 ft 3 in) and can accommodate up to 37 cadets for multiple-day journeys. Her call sign is LZKZ and she is identified by the MMSI number 207369000.
Accidents
On 20 June 2017, she struck another vessel, the VICTORIA, while entering the port of Oudeschild, Netherlands. There were no reports of injured people.
2020 In service, homeport Santo Domingo, IMO No 9542271.
Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Navy Miramar and internet.
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