BAE Guayas (BE-21)

BAE Guayas at Quebec City, 2017
History
Ecuador
Name	Guayas
Owner	Armada del Ecuador
Builder	Astilleros Celaya S.A., Bilbao, Spain
Yard number	157[1]
Launched	September 23, 1976[1]
Completed	July 23, 1977[1]
Commissioned	July 23, 1977
Homeport	Guayaquil, Ecuador
Identification	Call sign: HCEG IMO number: 7605043 MMSI number: 735059037 Pennant number: (BE-51) 6126970[1]
Status	in active service
General characteristics
Type	Steel-hulled barque
Tonnage	934 gross tonnage (GT)[1] 234 DWT[1]
Displacement	1,300 long tons (1,321 t)[2]
Length	78.40 m (257 ft 3 in) (LOA)[2] 56.10 m (184 ft 1 in) (pp)[2]
Beam	10.16 m (33 ft 4 in)
Draught	4.40 m (14 ft 5 in)
Depth	6.60 m (21 ft 8 in)
Propulsion	General Motors diesel, 700 hp (520 kW)[2]
Sail plan	1,410 m2 (15,200 sq ft)
Capacity	80 trainees[2]
Crew	35 officers and 120 crew[2]

Guayas is a sail training ship of the Ecuadorian Navy. Launched in 1976, it was named in jointly in honor of Chief Guayas, the Guayas river, and Guayas, the first steamship that was constructed in South America in 1841, and is displayed on the Ecuadorian coat of arms.^[2] The ship's home base is Guayaquil, Ecuador.