Amerigo Vespucci ship is heading for the world

The Amerigo Vespucci ship is up to a new adventure starting from the 1st of July. A two-year world tour which will include docking at ports in Los Angeles and Hawaii.

The departure will take place on July 1st from Genoa, and will see the ship face a journey enriched by 31 stops in 28 different countries on 5 continents, 14 of which with the official cadets of the Naval Academy of Livorno on board engaged in traditional education campaigns.

*Pictures as per Wikipedia page about the Amerigo Vespucci: By Cocai (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

Amerigo Vespucci ship: a brief history

The Amerigo vespucci ship was built in 1931 as a school ship for the training of officer cadets of the normal roles of the Naval Academy of Livorno.

The Vespucci was designed together with the twin Cristoforo Colombo in 1930 by the engineer Francesco Rotundi. The training ship was launched on 22 February 1931 in Castellammare di Stabia. She left fully equipped on 2 July for Genoa where, on 15 October 1931, she received the battle flag in the hands of her first commander, Augusto Radicati di Marmorito. Her task was to support the Cristoforo Colombo in the training activity, and she was placed in the School Ships Division together with the Colombo and another minor ship, making various training cruises in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic.

She regularly carried out her training activity also during the Second World War, apart from the year 1940. At the end of the conflict only Vespucci remained in service, since, due to the effect of international agreements, Cristoforo Colombo had to be sold, together to other units, to the USSR, as compensation for war damages.