The ship is under the command of Captain Luis Carreras-Presas do Campo and the crew of the four-mast brig-schooner is made up of 21 officers, 21 NCOs, 135 seamen/third-year cadets, and 2 civilians.
She is expected to call at 10 overseas ports sailing across the North Atlantic and Eastern Pacific: Las Palmas (Canary Islands), Fortaleza (Brazil), Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic), Manzanillo (Mexico), San Diego, Balboa, New Orleans, Boston, London, and Marin (NW Spain), returning to her home base on 21 July.
With a history that includes covering over 2 million miles under sail and ten full circumnavigations of the globe, if you have a chance to visit her you will not be let down.
I had a chance to visit Elcano last June when she called at Pensacola’s Commendencia Street Slip, her 9th visit there since 1959. Of interest, I noted she carried a pair of well-greased 37mm DP 6-pounders for use as saluting guns, and a rack of HK G36s and sabers on the quarterdeck protected by a Cabo armed with a Star Model 30M sidearm.
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