News : EID sails around the world with “Sagres”

EID is sponsoring the 3rd ocean voyage around the world of the Sagres, the Portuguese Navy sail training ship. The sailer left Lisbon on January, the 19th, and will cross the oceans during 11 months, visiting Brazil (Recife), Argentina (Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires and Ushuaia), Uruguay (Montevideo), Chile (Punta Arenas, Talcahuano and Valparaiso), Peru (Callao), Ecuador (Guayaquil), Mexico (Acapulco), USA (San Diego and Honolulu), Japan (Tokyo and Tanegashima), South Korea (Incheon), China (Shanghai and Macau) , East Timor (Dili), Indonesia (Jakarta), Thailand (Bangkok), Singapore, Malaysia (Melaka and Klang), India (Goa), Egypt (Alexandria) and Algeria (Algiers).  

There’s more in this circumnavigation voyage than meets the eye: besides providing sea training to the Portuguese Navy cadets, it also encompasses political, diplomatic, cultural and economical interests. The ship will participate in the Sudamerica 2010 international regatta for tall ships, in the celebration of the national day of Portugal, in San Diego, in the anniversary ceremonies of the Portugal-Japan treaty of peace and friendship, and EXPO Shanghai 2010.

As one of the sponsors of this prestigious adventure, EID will take the opportunity to promote its products and capabilities around the world. For this purpose, commercial and social events will be organized on board, in selected harbors (to be timely announced), to meet our clients and partners and to present our line of products to all the interested audiences.

The Sagres is a 3-mast sailer, known worldwide by the red crosses of Christ stamped on her square sails. These very same crosses were used by the Portuguese ships in the 15th century. She displaces 1725 tons and is 90 meter long.  She was built in 1938 by Blohm & Voss shipyards, in Hamburg, being christened as Albert Leo Schlageter. She is the third of a series of 4 ships. During World War II, the ship knocked a mine when transporting troops in the Baltic Sea. She was then laken to the shipyards of the port of Bremerhaven, where she was captured by the American forces in 1945. Later, in 1948, the ship was transferred to the Brazilian Navy and named Guanabara. Portugal acquired the ship in 1962, to replace a similar sailer, also named Sagres.

The Sagres undertook a thorough refit in 1991-92.

2010-02-04