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    The document provides information about the replica Spanish galleon El Galeón Andalucía. It summarizes that the galleon is a replica of the type of vessel used by Spain from the 16th to 18th centuries for trade between Spain, America, and Asia. The replica took 3 years of research and 6 months of design followed by a 17 month construction process. It is a 500 ton vessel with 4 masts, 6 sails, and capacity for up to 150 people for events. Since launching in 2009, it has sailed around the world to various ports as a floating museum representing Spanish culture.

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    The document provides information about the replica Spanish galleon El Galeón Andalucía. It summarizes that the galleon is a replica of the type of vessel used by Spain from the 16th to 18th centuries for trade between Spain, America, and Asia. The replica took 3 years of research and 6 months of design followed by a 17 month construction process. It is a 500 ton vessel with 4 masts, 6 sails, and capacity for up to 150 people for events. Since launching in 2009, it has sailed around the world to various ports as a floating museum representing Spanish culture.

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    The document provides information about the replica Spanish galleon El Galeón Andalucía. It summarizes that the galleon is a replica of the type of vessel used by Spain from the 16th to 18th centuries for trade between Spain, America, and Asia. The replica took 3 years of research and 6 months of design followed by a 17 month construction process. It is a 500 ton vessel with 4 masts, 6 sails, and capacity for up to 150 people for events. Since launching in 2009, it has sailed around the world to various ports as a floating museum representing Spanish culture.

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    The document provides information about the replica Spanish galleon El Galeón Andalucía. It summarizes that the galleon is a replica of the type of vessel used by Spain from the 16th to 18th centuries for trade between Spain, America, and Asia. The replica took 3 years of research and 6 months of design followed by a 17 month construction process. It is a 500 ton vessel with 4 masts, 6 sails, and capacity for up to 150 people for events. Since launching in 2009, it has sailed around the world to various ports as a floating museum representing Spanish culture.

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    The document discusses the history and purpose of Spanish galleons during the 16th-18th centuries, which carried goods and people between Spain, America, and Asia. It also describes the replica ship Galeón Andalucía.

    Spanish galleons were armed merchant vessels used by the Spanish Crown from the 16th-18th centuries to establish trade routes between Spain, America, and the Philippines islands, carrying settlers, traders, and goods across the Atlantic, Caribbean, Pacific, and back.

    The Galeón Andalucía replica took 3 years of research and 17 months of construction using an innovative fiberglass-lined wood technique. It has 4 masts, 6 sails, and measures 160 feet long and 32 feet wide with a capacity of 150 people.

    EL GALEN ANDALUCA The authentic replica of the 17th century Spanish Galleon

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    The Spanish Galleon


    The Galen Andaluca is the replica of the
    type of vessel used by the Spanish Crown for
    maritime expeditions during the 16th through the
    18thcenturies. Galleons were intended to discover
    and then establish trade routes between Spain,
    America and the Philippines islands, and formed
    the then called Fleet of the Indies.
    With an innovative design at the time, galleons were
    armed merchant vessels which tonnages ranging
    from 500 to 1,200, whereas their lengths-overall would range from 130 to 200 feet. They were
    designed to cross the largest oceans as efficiently as
    possible.
    For three centuries, these Spanish galleons crossed
    the Atlantic Ocean back and forth, sailed around
    the Caribbean Sea and the American coasts, and
    covered the Pacific route as well. They carried
    plenty of seamen, merchant traders and settlers,
    while their holds bore the fabulous loads resulting
    from American and Asian trade.

    Galleons were the most universal Spanish ships,


    which played the lead on commercial and cultural
    relationships during more than three centuries
    (16th to 18th) between Spain, America and Asia.
    These ships formed the so-called Indies fleet, which
    sailed from Seville, Spain, to America Mexico and
    Panama, where they linked up with the other great
    commercial route that extended the navigation
    to the Pacific Ocean: the Manila Galleon Route

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    lasted 17 months and employed 150 people until


    her launching in Punta Umbra (Huelva, Spain) on
    November, 2009. The replica has been designed and
    built by Ignacio Fernandez Vial, a naval engineer
    and historian, commissioned by ship owner, the
    Nao Victoria Foundation.
    During construction, a completely original and
    innovative technique was used: the hull and decks
    were built up in layers of fiberglass and after that
    the whole structure was lined with wood. It was
    the first time this method was applied to any ship
    heavier than 500 tons meant for oceanic sailing.
    or China Route. This last route linked Manila to
    Acapulco, and brought the rich goods from the Far
    East to Spain and Western civilizations. Spanish
    Galleons played the leading role on the longest (in
    time and length) maritime commercial route of the
    history of navigation during three centuries.

    The Replica: El Galen Andaluca


    It took three years to research the main historical
    and maritime archives in Spain and compile all
    necessary information about galleons shapes,
    details and measures so that this replica could be
    built.
    Historical research was then followed by structural
    design, a work that took 6 months, and later on
    followed the construction of the galleon, which

    Essentially, this is a 500 ton galleon, with length


    overall reaching 160 ft. and beam 32 ft. Four masts
    hold 6 sails which measure almost 11,000 square
    foot. Average speed is 7 knots. Since her launching,
    a crew between 15 to 35 people has manned her
    across the seas and oceans around the world. She
    has navigated the Pacific and Indian oceans, crossed
    the Atlantic Ocean, and her wake has spread over
    the Mediterranean Sea, the Red Sea, the South and
    East China seas, the Aegean Sea, the Bosphorus
    strait and the Caribbean Sea, covering thousands of
    nautical miles in an attempt to evoke her ancestors.

    A different and exclusive platform


    The Galen Andaluca is a replica of a majestic
    Spanish galleon that beautifully captures and
    represents our culture, thus becoming an
    extraordinary attraction in each and every port it
    visits.
    Converted into a floating museum, the vessel offers
    a unique space to perform a diversity of events, as
    well as excellent zones that serve as the interpretive
    center dedicated to galleons.
    It is a highly attractive ship with multiple spaces,
    resources and exhibition infrastructure of immense
    versatility to host diverse events, presentations,
    exhibitions etc. It is fully equipped with the latest

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    technology. History and modernity become one in this ship that represents our culture.
    Tradition and modernity are brought together across more than 320 m2 of the galleons decks that can be
    accessed by visitors.

    More than 3, 400 ft to visit (in different decks)


    6 decks, noble area and personnel area
    Capacity: max. 150 people /event. Increased possibilities and atport installations.
    Maximum number of visitors per day: 5,000
    Figures: Length: 164 ft. / Main beam: 33 ft. / Draft: 10.5 ft.
    3 Masts / 7 Sails / 10.000 ft sail area

    Poop Deck 146 FT

    Main Deck 926 FT

    Gun Deck 1033 FT

    Hold 753 FT

    Quarter Deck 97 FT

    Forecastle Deck 450 FT

    Fundacin Nao Victoria


    C/Progreso 20, 2A 41013 Seville (Spain)
    Tel : +34 954 090 956
    www.fundacionnaovictoria.org

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