Italian training ship Corsaro II: Difference between revisions

|Ship caption=''Corsaro II (A5316)'' [[Palma de Mallorca]], [[2007]]

|Ship launched=[[1960]]

|Ship commissioned=5 January [[1961]]

''Corsaro II (A 5316)'' can accommodate 16 persons. First Commander of the ship was [[Agostino Straulino]] who won the [[Olympic Games]] of [[1952]] in the class Star. In [[1961]] Corsaro II was the only naval ship to join in the [[Los Angeles]] - [[Honolulu]] classifying sixth in real time. In [[1962]] participated in the [[Newport]] – [[Bermuda]] with 138 boats arriving at the sixth place, and in the [[Torbay]] – [[Rotterdam]] arriving first in the class. In [[1963]] participated in: [[Annapolis]] – [[Newport]], [[Newport]] – [[Plymouth]] (second place), the Channel Race and the Fastnet Race. In [[1964]] took part in the [[Lisbon]] – [[Canaries]] – [[Bermuda]] reaching the first place. In [[1965]] participated in the [[Buenos Aires]] – [[Rio de Janeiro]] then sailed to [[Sidney]] racing in local regatta. The following year sailed from [[Sidney]] to [[San Diego]] coming to [[Italy]]. From then on the ''Corsaro II'' participated mainly in the Mediterranean sea with home port in [[La Spezia]].