ARA Presidente Sarmiento [SEP] named after
ARA Presidente Sarmiento
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. She is considered to be the last intact cruising training ship from the 1890s.
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
History Public museum ship and historic monument (1967–present).
Removed from naval service in 1962, the "Uruguay" was in 1967 declared a National Historic Landmark. Currently integrated since 1967 as a museum ship with the frigate ARA Presidente Sarmiento in the "Museum of Sea and Navigation". It is moored at Puerto Madero in the city of Buenos Aires, in the dock area No. 3, a short distance from the "Sarmiento".
See also.
- ARA "Presidente Sarmiento", a larger tall