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  1. The Amerigo Vespucci is a tall ship of the Italian Navy ( Marina Militare) named after the explorer Amerigo Vespucci. Its home port is La Spezia, Italy, and it is in use as a training ship . History.

  2. Jul 3, 2023 · The Italian Navy’s Amerigo Vespucci training sailing vessel left Genoa on Saturday July 1st for a circa 20-month World tour of over 40,000 nautical miles calling at 31 ports and touching 28 countries and five continents.

  3. Jul 31, 2023 · Amerigo Vespucci was a 16th-century Italian merchant and explorer remembered not only for his voyages that altered the course of history but for bestowing the New World with the name “America.”

  4. Apr 12, 2024 · Amerigo Vespucci (born 1454?, Florence, Italy—died 1512, Sevilla, Spain) was a merchant and explorer-navigator who took part in early voyages to the New World (1499–1500 and 1501–02) and occupied the influential post of piloto mayor (“master navigator”) in Sevilla (1508–12).

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  5. Aug 2, 2023 · Updated: Aug 2, 2023. Getty Images. (1451-1512) Who Was Amerigo Vespucci? On May 10, 1497, explorer Amerigo Vespucci embarked on his first voyage. On his third and most successful voyage,...

  6. Launched in 1931, the ship Amerigo Vespucci is designed as a training ship. Until the end of the Second World War, it was alongside the ship Cristoforo Colombo, after which – from 1946 to 1952 – it remained the only sailing training ship of the Italian Navy. Later, she was joined by Ebe and later by Palinuro, another sailing ship, in 1955.

  7. Amerigo Vespucci (/ v ɛ ˈ s p uː tʃ i / vesp-OO-chee, Italian: [ameˈriːɡo veˈsputtʃi]; 9 March 1451 – 22 February 1512) was an Italian explorer and navigator from the Republic of Florence, from whose name the term "America" is derived.

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