EPISODE 2. The Gloria Ship, Colombian Navy

, canada, ship, navy ARC Gloria is a threemasted barque. She is a training ship and official flagship of the Colombian Navy. The Colombian Government authorized its navy to acquire a training ship in 1966. A contract was signed with the Spanish shipyard Celaya of Bilbao in October 1966, and began to be fulfilled in April 1967. The ship was commissioned on 7 September 1968 with the vessel moored at the wharf of Deusto Channel. She is one of four similar barques built as sail training vessels for Latin American navies; her halfsisters are the Mexican Cuauhtémoc, the Venezuelan Simón Bolívar and the Ecuadoran Guayas. Their design is similar to the 1930 designs of the German firm Blohm Voss, like Gorch Fock, USCGC Eagle and NRP Sagres. The ship s name is a reference to the national anthem Please subscribe my channel and click like and leave a comment