Portuguese Navy's Sail Trainning-Ship "Sagres" visits Bangkok

Data de publicação: 15/out/2009 6:16:57

The Portuguese Navy´s Sail Training Ship “Sagres”, is recognised as one of the most beautiful tall ships in the world. The 3 masts barge, 90 meters long, was built in 1937 at the Blohm & Voss shipyards, in Germany, and it has been sailing since 1962 with the Portuguese flag. Her main goal is to assure continued seamanship and leadership training at sea of the future Portuguese Navy officers, as a complement of their technical and academic education received at the Naval Academy and is regularly used abroad as an itinerant Ambassador of Portugal.Between the 15^th of January and the 23^rd of December, the ship is making a turn-around-the-world which includes the participation on Bicentenary 2010, celebrating the liberation movements and independence of most of South American countries, the Training Cruise of the Portuguese Naval Academy cadets, the celebration of 150 years of the Peace, Friendship and Commerce Treaty between Portugal and Japan, the presence in EXPO 2010 Shanghai and the visit to Bangkok will mark the beginning of the cycle of Celebrations in 2011 of 500 Years of Diplomatic Relations between Siam/Thailand and Portugal as a landmark signaling the first encounter between Southeast Asian and European civilizations. Therefore this is the first visit of Sagres to Thailand and occurs less than one year before the 5^th Centenary of the arrival of Duarte Fernandes, Portuguese Envoy sent by Afonso de Albuquerque to Ayutthaya in 1511.In Bangkok the ship will moor alongside from October 10^th to the 14^th.

Open for free Public Visitors: Oct 10^th, 12^th and 13^th (10:00-12:00; 14:00-18:00; 20:00-22:00)