Juan Sebastián Elcano (Spanish ship)

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The Juan Sebastián de Elcano is a training ship for the Spanish Navy. A four-masted topsail schooner, at 370 feet long it is the third-largest Tall Ship in the world. It is named after Spanish explorer Juan Sebastián Elcano, captain of Ferdinand Magellan's last exploratory fleet. The ship also carries the de Elcano coat of arms, which was granted to the family by Emperor Charles I following de Elcano's return in 1522 from Magellan's global expedition. The coat of arms is a terraqueous globe with the motto "Primus Circumdedisti Me" (meaning: First to circumnavigate me).

The Juan Sebastián de Elcano was built in 1927 in Cadiz, Spain, and her hull was designed by the Echevarrieta y Larriñaga shipyard in Cadiz. Her plans were also used twenty-five years later to construct the Chilean sail training vessel Esmeralda in 1952-1954. She is a four-masted, topsail schooner, and has a steel hull.

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