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Iron-hulled barquentine
Italian training ship Palinuro is a iron-hulled barquentine. It was built by Anciens Chantiers Dubigeon, Nantes ( France ). Reported operators include Italian Navy.
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Italian Navy
Italian Navy
Anciens Chantiers Dubigeon, Nantes ( France )
1933
21 March 1934
1934
16 July 1955
Commandant Louis Richard (1934), Jean Marc Aline (1948), Palinuro (16 july 1951)
La Maddalena
MMSI number : 247939000 Callsign : IGMX Italian Navy code: A5311
Faventibus Ventis
Still in service
Iron-hulled barquentine
858 GT
1,341 t (1,320 long tons) full load
- 69 m (226 ft 5 in) LOA - 59 m (194 ft) LPP
10 m (32 ft 10 in)
37.50 m (123 ft 0 in) at mainmast
4.80 m (15 ft 9 in)
Barquentine rig, 15 sails, 1,000 m 2 (11,000 sq ft)
9.5 knots (17.6 km/h; 10.9 mph)
- 1 x diesel engine Grandi Motori Trieste G.M.T. B230-6N, 447.5 kW (600.1 bhp) - 1 x shaft - 5,400 nmi (10,000 km; 6,200 mi) at 7.5 knots (13.9 km/h; 8.6 mph)
84 (of which, 6 officiers) plus 54 cadets/trainees
2 GEM Elettronica navigation radar: one MM/SPN-754(V)1 and one MM/SPN-754(V)2 as January 2019
The record for the longest time campaign is up to that of 1987, with a duration of 200 days, from 24 April to 10 November, for a total of 20 visited ports and 6925 miles traveled, but the largest number of miles traveled in only one campaign was achieved in 2002, with 12748 miles in 192 days of campaign.
The longest navigation, is 290 hours (a bit more than 12 days) with about 1350 miles traveled from Batumi (Georgia) to Argostoli (Kefalonia - Greece), dates back to 2018; while the longest in terms of distance is 2001 with 1473 miles traveled in 10 days from Valencia to La Rochelle.
The longest continuous sailing navigation was 150 hours and 12 minutes, during the 54th training campaign of 2018 on the Taranto - Kos route, which also represented the record of sailing hours on a single leg.
The campaign with the most sailing hours was the 2018 campaign with over 600 hours.
Anciens Chantiers Dubigeon, Nantes ( France )
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Italian training ship Palinuro equipment records. Variants, orders and quantities are shown as reported in each inventory source; coverage is incomplete.
ItalyNavy exact named equipment holdings: Palinuro. Active, operational-reserve and training units excluding equipment in store; November 2025 IISS assessment. Named service only; no parent-force or national total inferred. Source role: LOGISTICS AND SUPPORT / AXS. Original estimates, ranges, reporting names, reserve, lease and employment scopes retained; nested included counts are not added. Missile-system quantities mean launchers, not rounds. No readiness, crew, carried weapon, payload, factory-production or future order count inherited.
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