Capitan Miranda - Uruguay

Length overall: 205’ Beam: 27’ Draft: 12’ Hull: Steel Rig: Staysail schooner Year built: 1930 Home port: Montevideo

Uruguay’s big staysail schooner, Capitan Miranda, has served her nation’s Navy for more than two decades. Built in 1930 as a sailing cargo carrier, she was active in various trades in Latin America after World War II. She became a hydrographic survey vessel for the Uruguayan Navy during the 1960s, and in 1978 she became a sailing ship again, with a modern schooner rig that was developed in the 1920s for racing yachts.