Happy Birthday Vespucci! The National Association of Italian Sailors MOVM Luigi Longobardi group of Castellammare di Stabia, Free Researcher, the Workers of the Fincantieri plant of Castellammare di Stabia and the students of the Nino Bixio Nautical Institute of Piano di Sorrento celebrate the 90th anniversary of the launch of the training ship Amerigo Vespucci, symbol of the Italian navy, wishing him a happy birthday!
Celebrations via social media, due to Covid, which did not prevent the creation of a documentary video entitled “Nave Vespucci, 90 years today” to celebrate the important anniversary for the most beautiful ship in the world, a symbol of stability in the world, with the invitation to all citizens to view it, on February 22, on the Libero Ricercatore accounts to blow out together the 90 candles of the sailing ship launched in 1931.
The documentary video will deal with the birth of the project of the training ship for the Naval Academy of Livorno, the history of the shipyard and the little-known technical characteristics of the Vespucci, the navigation of the Vespucci in the days of the armistice of 8 September 1943 from the diaries of one of the witnesses of those tragic days of the Second World War.
Happy Birthday Vespucci! With the hope of seeing this pride of Castellammare again soon in the city's port, thus putting behind us this difficult period for all citizens and the Italian nation affected by the pandemic.
Not he who begins but he who perseveres!
Article published on 14 February 2021 - 09:45
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