Ship profile for the sailing ship: "Juan Bautista Cambiaso"
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Source, location, date:
Volker Gries,
Hanse Sail Rostock 2017,
08/2017
Technical data of the sailing ship:
| Name: | Juan Bautista Cambiaso |
| Ex-names: | Royal Helena |
| Registered port: | Santo Domingo |
| Nation: | DOM |
| Type of rigging: | BARKENTINE |
| Year built: | 2009 |
| Yard: | MTG Dolphin, Varna, BUL |
| Overall length: | 54.00 m |
| Breadth: | 8.20 m |
| Draught: | 3.93 m |
| Sail area: | 1000 m2 |
| Ship's hull: | Stahl / Steel |
| Power: | 450 PS |
| Engine: | Volvo Penta |
Portrait of the sailing ship:
Last update: 27 Jun 2026
- built in 2009 in Varna, Bulgaria, modeled after the barquentines "Kaliakra", "Iskra", and "Pogoria", originally named "Royal Helena" and sailed under the Bulgarian flag.
- operated by Topsail Varna as a charter vessel in the Black Sea and Mediterranean.
- occasionally participated in tall ship regattas, e.g. the 2010 St. Martin Classic Yacht Regatta in the Caribbean, as well as events in the Mediterranean (2013), the Black Sea (2016), and the STI Tall Ships Races (2017).
- visited the Hamburg Port Anniversary and Hanse Sail Rostock in 2017.
- sold to the Dominican Republic Navy in 2018; since then used as a training ship and national ambassador, homeported in Santo Domingo, and renamed "Juan Bautista Cambiaso"
- named after Juan Bautista Cambiaso (18201886), who founded the Dominican Navy during the War of Independence in 1844.