![]() BAE Guayas at Quebec City, 2017
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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 |
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Status | in active service |
General characteristics | |
Type | Steel-hulled barque |
Tonnage |
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Displacement | 1,300 long tons (1,321 t)[2] |
Length | |
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.