{"id":60872,"date":"2025-09-20T23:31:22","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T21:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=60872"},"modified":"2025-09-26T19:10:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T17:10:13","slug":"the-peruvian-navys-training-ship-bap-union-departing-from-the-port-of-vigo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/09\/20\/the-peruvian-navys-training-ship-bap-union-departing-from-the-port-of-vigo\/","title":{"rendered":"The Peruvian Navy's training ship BAP Uni\u00f3n departing from the port of Vigo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Sunday, September 14, the Peruvian Navy's training ship BAP Uni\u00f3n (BEV-161) arrived at the port of Vigo.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/08\/11\/the-last-sh-3-sea-kings-of-the-spanish-navy-leave-on-a-ship-for-peru\/\">The last SH-3 Sea Kings of the Spanish Navy leave on a ship for Peru<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/10\/05\/the-sale-of-six-sh-3d-sea-king-of-the-spanish-navy-to-peru-for-600-euros\/\">The sale of six SH-3D Sea King of the Spanish Navy to Peru for 600 euros<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p><strong>The ship was carrying 227 crew members, including 71 cadets from the Peruvian Naval Academy.<\/strong> This visit to Spain is part of this year's Foreign Training Voyage (VIEX), which began in May and will conclude in October. <strong>On Wednesday, September 17, just after 6:00 p.m. local time, the ship set sail from the port of Vigo<\/strong> on a sunny afternoon. You can watch the video of its departure here:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"El buque escuela peruano B.A.P. Uni\u00f3n zarpando del puerto de Vigo\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hQa5sxgNC_g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>The BAP Uni\u00f3n was launched on December 22, 2014<\/strong> at the SIMA shipyard in Callao, Peru, entering service on January 27, 2016.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54800820859_4290373f54_o.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54800820859_f933378b34_c.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The BAP Uni\u00f3n is a four-masted vessel with a length of 115.5 metres<\/strong>, a beam of 13.5 metres, a depth of 11.5 metres, a draft of 6.5 metres and <strong>a displacement of 3,200 tonnes<\/strong>, making it slightly larger and heavier than the Spanish Navy's training ship \"Juan Sebasti\u00e1n de Elcano\".<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54799732297_698ce0952e_o.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54799732297_c764eef7d6_c.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Like its Spanish counterpart, <strong>the BAP Uni\u00f3n is used to train future officers of the Peruvian Navy<\/strong> and also acts as a naval ambassador for that American republic. During its stay in Vigo, <strong>the ship's masts were illuminated with the colors of the Peruvian flag at night<\/strong>. I hope to see it more often in my city. You can see more photos of this visit here.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54800820964_bcf8455979_o.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54800820964_ff4b2d7ee4_c.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54800583891_72dc6fb0be_o.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54800583891_5b436af71b_c.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54800918680_e1c4511b14_o.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54800918680_dcd23d5ac9_c.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54800584001_0b4510d05e_o.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54800584001_bef7118c90_c.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54799732342_138a4f9db7_o.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54799732342_1737dd8d15_c.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54800836033_bf0823e5d6_o.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54800836033_9365959491_c.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54800820914_47860c0c39_o.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54800820914_de07f6b3e5_c.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Sunday, September 14, the Peruvian Navy&#8217;s training ship BAP Uni\u00f3n (BEV-161) arrived at the port of Vigo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19534,11545],"tags":[25335,1805,1890,17569,21036,11462,11460],"class_list":["post-60872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense-portada-eng","category-navy","tag-bap-union-bev-161","tag-galicia","tag-peru","tag-peruvian-navy","tag-port-of-vigo","tag-spain","tag-vigo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}