{"id":47309,"date":"2025-09-06T12:53:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T12:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/47309\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T12:53:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T12:53:20","slug":"one-of-worlds-largest-tall-ship-training-vessels-to-dock-in-dublin-this-weekend-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/47309\/","title":{"rendered":"One of world\u2019s largest tall ship training vessels to dock in Dublin this weekend \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">One of the largest and most visually arresting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/news\/ireland\/irish-news\/an-experience-of-a-lifetime-tall-ships-regatta-comes-to-dublin-1.3516847\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/news\/ireland\/irish-news\/an-experience-of-a-lifetime-tall-ships-regatta-comes-to-dublin-1.3516847\">tall ship <\/a>training vessels on the high seas is docking in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/dublin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/dublin\/\">Dublin <\/a>this weekend and will lower its gangplanks for locals to board until Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The BAP Uni\u00f3n is the jewel in the crown of the Peruvian navy and is touring Europe with a view to building closer bonds across trade, tourism, investment and cultural links. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">While the vessel looks like it is from another time, when wind power was dominant, the steel-hulled, four-masted barque only took to the water a decade ago, having been built over three years for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/peru\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/peru\/\">Peru<\/a>\u2019s navy. <\/p>\n<p>A view from the water as the tall ships arrived into Dublin for the Dublin Port Riverfest on the June bank holiday weekend. Video: Daniel O&#8217;Connor\/ Visit Dublin <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">She is the largest sail training vessel in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/latin-america\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/latin-america\/\">South America <\/a>and one of the largest in the world, at 115m long and 53.5m tall at her highest mast, with a beam of 13.5m. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">As a sail training vessel, she carries a crew of about 250 \u2013 71 of whom are cadets, led by Peruvian naval officers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Alongside her role as a training ship, she also travels the world building stronger diplomatic relations between Peru and host nations as a floating embassy. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The brilliant white tall ship will be berthed alongside Berth 47 in Dublin Port due to her deep draft. It will be open for the public to view on-board exhibitions for three hours from 2pm on Saturday and from 10am to 5pm on Sunday, with a two-hour window from 10am on Monday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">On Sunday, a free shuttle bus service will be available to the public from the bus stop at Sean Moore Road to the ship\u2019s docking location every 20 minutes. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The ship has already visited Britain, Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands. After departing Dublin, it will head to Vigo in Spain and then return to Peru.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the largest and most visually arresting tall ship training vessels on the high seas is docking&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47310,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,52,13,14,6,11,12,15,16,5,32211,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-47309","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-dublin","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-latest-news","15":"tag-latestnews","16":"tag-main-news","17":"tag-mainnews","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-peru","20":"tag-top-stories","21":"tag-topstories","22":"tag-world","23":"tag-world-news","24":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}