Amerigo Vespucci is a tall ship of the Italian Navy named after the explorer Amerigo Vespucci. Her home port is La Spezia, Italy, and she is in use as a training ship.
Amerigo Vespucci in New York Harbor, 1976
The Amerigo Vespucci in the harbor of Oslo, 2005. Akershus Fortress in the background.
The Amerigo Vespucci, after the modernization works, in the harbor of La Rochelle, 2018.
USS Independence (CVA-62) underway with sailing ship Amerigo Vespucci in the Mediterranean Sea, 12 July 1962.
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Amerigo Vespucci was an Italian explorer and navigator from the Republic of Florence after whom the Americas are named.
Italian training ship Amerigo Vespucci
…Amerigo Vespucci is a tall ship of the Italian Navy (Marina Militare) named after the explorer Amerigo Vespucci. Her home port is La Spezia, Italy, and she is in use as a training ship. In 1925, the Regia Marina ordered two training ships to a design by General…
Portrait attrib. Crispijn van de Passe the Elder, c. 1590–1637
Portrait of a young member of the Vespucci family, identified as Amerigo by Giorgio Vasari
Depiction of Vespucci's first encounter with Native Americans, alleged to have occurred in 1497 (De Bry engraving, c. 1592)
Vespucci's second voyage depicted in the first known edition of his letter to Piero Soderini, published by Pietro Pacini in Florence c. 1505