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, named for the last Mexica Hueyi Tlatoani

Cuauhtémoc Cuauhtémoc (, ), also known as Cuauhtemotzín, Guatimozín, or Guatémoc, was the Aztec ruler ('' tlatoani'') of Tenochtitlan from 1520 to 1521, making him the last Aztec Emperor. The name Cuauhtemōc means "one who has descended like an eagle ...

who was captured and executed in 1525. She is the last of four sister ships built by the naval shipyards of

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, in 1982, all built to a design similar to the 1930 designs of the German firm Blohm & Voss, like ''Gorch Fock'', and the NRP ''Sagres''. Built at the Celaya Shipyards in Bilbao, she was designed by Naval Engineer Juan José Alonso Verástegui. Her keel was laid on July 24, 1981, and she was delivered to the Mexican Navy in Bilbao on July 29, 1982. Her first commander was Captain Manuel Zermeño del Peón, in command of a crew of cadets from the Mexican Naval Academy who received the ship and brought Cuauhtémoc home to Mexico. Like her sister ships, Colombia's , Ecuador's ''Guayas'' and Venezuela's ''Simón Bolívar'', ''Cuauhtémoc'' is a sailing ambassador for her home country and a frequent visitor to world ports, having sailed over in her 38 years of service, with appearances at the

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Tall Ships Challenges, Sail Osaka, and others.

Crest

The body of the shield is made up of two concentric circles: the exterior, like a cord of abaca, suggests the ship's rigging, the tool necessary for the crew to raise and lower the sails. The inner circle serves to concentrically divide the total circumference of the body. The internal part of these carries in its center the silhouette of Cuauhtémoc on its port side and with all the rigging, sailing to the west, driven by the wind, represents her first trip to Mexico from Spain. In the ring formed by the two circles there are two inscriptions: reading ''Armada de México'' (Mexican Navy) on the top, and ''Buque Escuela Cuauhtémoc'' (Cuauhtémoc School Ship), on the bottom. The same ring offers, at the eastern point, the figure of the wind god Ehécatl, who with his breath propels the ship to the west. At the setting point appears the Sun of the evening twilight; at the north point, interspersed in the inscription, the sidereal stars that make constant knowledge of their position possible. Finally, in the upper part of the body, the eagle of the Mexican Coat of Arms, which recalls the origin of the ship and its strength.

Cruises

• Atlantic Cruise 1982
• Oriente Cruise 1983
• Tahiti Cruise 1984
• North Atlantic Cruise 1985
• Liberty Cruise 1986
• South Pacific Cruise 1987
• Mediterranean Cruise 1988
• Eurocaribe Cruise 1989
• 1990 Circumnavigation Cruise
• 50th Anniversary Cruise of the Secretary of the Atlantic Navy 1992
• Cape Horn Cruise 1992-1993
• Cruise Europe 1994
• Canada Cruise 1994
• Baltic Cruise 1996
• Cruiser Osaka 1997
• Cruise Australia 1998
• Lisbon Cruise 1998
• 1999 North Sea Cruise
• Euroamerica 2000 Cruise
• Europe Cruise 2001
• 2002 Circumnavigation Cruise
• Rouen Cruise 2003
• Sail Rhode Island 2004
• 2005 North Pacific Training Cruise
• Circumnavigation Cruise 2006
• Baltic Instructional Cruise 2007
• Rouen Cruise 2008
• Japan Instructional Cruise 2009
• 2010 Bicentennial Sailing Instruction Cruise South America
• Mediterranean Cruise 2011
• Atlantic Cruise 2012
• Europe Cruise 2013
• Sail Latin America 2014
• Levante Mediterranean Cruise 2015
• Ibero Atlantic Cruise 2016
• Centennial Cruise of the 2017 Constitution
• Sail Latin America 2018
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, 2005 File:Cuauhtémoc in falmouth 2023.jpg, Cuauhtémoc setting off from Falmouth, August 2023, during a Tall Ship race. File:Mexican tallship Cuauhtemoc.png, Line art of the Cuauhtémoc

References

* American Sail Training Association; ''Sail Tall Ships!'' (American Sail Training Association; 16th edition, 2005 )

External links

Official Website of the Mexican Navy

American Sail Training AssociationFour slideshows with Cuauhtémoc from the Tall Ships' Races 2007 in Aarhus, Denmark
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The Cuauhtémoc at Hanse Sail 2007 in Warnemünde, GermanyFigurehead (close-up) of the Cuauhtémoc during docking in San Francisco July 2009The Cuauhtémoc in Odesa, Ukraine August 2011The Cuauhtémoc in San Diego, California, August 2014
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