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	Amerigo Vespucci (ship) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The ship was built in 1930 at the (formerly Royal) Naval Shipyard of Castellammare di Stabia (Naples).
		The Amerigo Vespucci in the harbor of Oslo, 2005.
		The Amerigo Vespucci often participates in sailing parades and Tall Ships' Races, where she is in amicable rivalry with the Gorch Fock.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Amerigo_Vespucci_(ship) (723 words)

	Amerigo Vespucci - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Amerigo Vespucci (March 9, 1454 - February 22, 1512) was an Italian merchant and cartographer who voyaged to and wrote about the Americas.
		Amerigo Vespucci was born in Florence, Italy, as the third child of a respected family.
		Amerigo Vespucci died in Seville, Spain, in 1512.
	www.hartselle.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Amerigo_Vespucci (627 words)

	Ship - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		One can measure ships in terms of overall length, length of the waterline, beam (breadth), depth (distance between the crown of the weather deck and the top of the keelson) and tonnage.
		Until the application of the steam engine to ships in the early 19th century, oars propelled galleys or the wind propelled sailing ships.
		Before mechanisation, merchant ships always used sail, but as long as naval warfare depended on ships closing to ram or to fight hand-to-hand, galleys dominated in marine conflicts because of their maneuverability and speed.
	www.lighthousepoint.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Ship (2380 words)

	Ship of the line Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		During the age of sail, '''ship''' signified a ship rigship-rigged vessel, that is, one with three square rigsquare-rigged masts and a bowsprit.
		Before mechanisation, merchant ships always used sail, but as long as naval warfare depended on ships closing to Battering ramram or to fight hand-to-hand, galleys dominated in marine conflicts because of their maneuverability and speed.
		A few ships have used nuclear reactors, but this form of propulsion has caused concerns about safety and has only become common in large aircraft carriers and in submarines, where the ability to run submerged for long periods has obvious benefits.
	www.echostatic.com /Ship_of_the_line.html (1552 words)

	Amerigo Vespucci (ship) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Amerigo Vespucci is a world-famous (Click link for more info and facts about tall ship) tall ship of the (Click link for more info and facts about Marina Militare) Marina Militare, named after the explorer (Florentine navigator who explored the coast of South America; America was named in his honor (1454-1512)) Amerigo Vespucci.
		The (The frame or body of ship) hull is painted fl with two white stripes in reference to the two gun decks of the original ships the design is based on, but of course she carries no guns.
		The Amerigo Vespucci often participates in sailing parades and Tall Ships' Races, where she is in amicable rivalry with the (Click link for more info and facts about Gorch Fock) Gorch Fock.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/am/amerigo_vespucci_(ship).htm (918 words)

	Amerigo Vespucci
		Amerigo Vespucci (March 9, 1454 - February 22, 1512) was a Genoan merchant, navigator, and sea explorer who voyaged to and wrote about the Americas.
		Vespucci sailed southward, discovering the mouth of the Amazon and reaching 6°S, before turning around and seeing Trinidad and the Orinoco River and returning to Spain by way of Hispaniola.
		Amerigo Vespucci died on February 22, 1512 in Seville, Spain.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/a/am/amerigo_vespucci.html (503 words)

	Amerigo_Vespucci
		Amerigo Vespucci was born in Florence, Italy in March of 1451, and grew up in a considerable mansion near the river.
		Amerigo was the third son, there were two older brothers, Antonio and Girolamo, the youngest was Bernardo.
		In 1497 Vespucci said that he went on a voyage to the "New World." Little is known about this because there was not much evidence to support that he actually made this voyage such as: journals, maps they used, or any crew members journals about what happened.
	www.studyworld.com /Amerigo_Vespucci.htm (762 words)

	biographie vespucci
		Vespucci was the son of Nastagio, a notary.
		Later, Vespucci was to collaborate, still with Berardi, in the preparation of a ship for Columbus' second expedition and of others for his third.
		Vespucci thought he had sailed along the coast of the extreme easterly peninsula of Asia, where Ptolemy, the geographer, believed the market of Cattigara to be; so he looked for the tip of this peninsula, calling it Cape Cattigara.
	www.bigoid.de /conquista/biographien/vespucci.htm (1011 words)

	Jury (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Amerigo Vespucci was born in Florence, the third son of Ser Nastagio and Simonetta Vespucci in March 1454.
		Amerigo Vespucci brought a fresh mind to the problem of the determinition of longitude and was the first man to place it upon a scientific basis.
		Vespucci was eager to continue his voyage in hopes of obtaining more data from his nightly observations of the sky, but teredos (shipworms) had eaten the hulls of his ships, his provisions were low and the wind and currents were against him.
	muweb.millersville.edu /~columbus/papers/jury-01.html (4126 words)

	Vespucci, Amerigo on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		He accompanied Alonso de Ojeda in 1499, but by agreement the two separated shortly before land was sighted in the West Indies, and Vespucci alone explored the mouths of the Amazon.
		Vespucci found the mouth of the Río de la Plata and probably went as far as lat.
		Vespucci's achievements were long belittled by scholars, but the conclusions of Alberto Magnaghi in the 1920s and 30s are now widely accepted, and the pilot major is given his due.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/v/vespucci.asp (766 words)

	Jeff Butch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Amerigo Vespucci was born on March 9, 1454, the first year of the new age of printed material.
		In 1492, Amerigo Vespucci was in Barcelona Spain.
		Amerigo Vespucci was considered a modern man from the Renaissance period of scientific inquiry that allowed men to independently question events of the times.
	muweb.millersville.edu /~columbus/papers/butch-1.html (2434 words)

	Amerigo Vespucci - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Amerigo Vespucci (March 9, 1454 in Florence, Italy - February 22, 1512) was an Italian merchant and cartographer who voyaged to and wrote about the Americas.
		But his claim is clearly fraudulent, which casts more doubt on Vespucci's credibility.
		From these letters, the European public learned about America for the first time; its existence became generally known throughout Europe within a few years of their publication.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Amerigo_Vespucci_(explorer) (579 words)

	Tall ship - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Tall ship is a somewhat informal collective term for some kinds of sailing ships.
		Contrary to other sailing ship classification terms, tall ship does not describe a particular kind of sailing ship identified by a sail plan – both barques and brigantines, for instance, are tall ships.
		A tall ship is a traditionally rigged sailing vessel differentiated from modern sailing vessels by her topmasts and topsails.
	www.leessummit.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Tall_ship (289 words)

	Amerigo Vespucci 3 Mast Sailing Ship
		Amerigo Vespucci 3 mast full rigged sailing ship takes its name from the famous Italian sailor and cartographer who also lent his name to the new world.
		Amerigo Vespucci had a sister ship, the "Christopher Columbus" (named in Italian, and I can't do it justice).
		The main winches are the size of a birdbath (80cm diameter), with an ornate brass plate embossed with an image of the ship under sail.
	www.schoonerman.com /ame-ves.html (543 words)

	Scoop: Capital to welcome spectacular Italian tall ship
		An impressive symbol of sailing, Amerigo Vespucci, the training ship of the Italian Navy, is a three-masted vessel based on an 18th century design.
		On an 18-month world circumnavigation, the Amerigo Vespucci is visiting New Zealand to celebrate the cultural and economic ties between New Zealand and Italy, to support the Louis Vuitton Cup and America’s Cup 2003, and to acknowledge the participation of the Italian challenger syndicates.
		Built The Amerigo Vespucci was built in Italy at Castellammare di Stabia in the Bay of Naples at the former royal shipyard.
	www.scoop.co.nz /stories/PA0301/S00176.htm (1168 words)

	Amerigo Vespucci (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Amerigo was given two ships and as long as Hojeda gave his permission Amerigo was allowed to steer them anywhere he pleased.
		Amerigo’s family had a long relationship with the Spanish Royalty, which made it easy for Amerigo to ask and receive the ships he needed to make the Trips.
		Amerigo’s ships would set sail back to Spain in June of 1500 for they were no longer sea worthy.
	bg016.k12.sd.us /Explorers/amerigo_vespucci.htm (241 words)

	HNN Fleet Focus :: USS Russell hosts Amerigo Vespucci (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The ship was launched in 1931 and has been in continuous service for the last 71 years.
		Unlike the sailing ships of old, the Vespucci does have engines and a propeller as well as radar and satellite systems, a perfect blend of the old and the new.
		Vespucci is the home for every first year cadet of the Italian Naval Academy for 3 to 4 months.
	www.hnn.navy.mil /archives/020920/russell_092002.htm (587 words)

	Scoop: NZ Welcomes Arrival of Italian Tall Sailing Ship
		An impressive symbol of sailing, Amerigo Vespucci, the sail training ship of the Italian Navy, is a magnificent three-masted vessel based on the design of an 18th Century warship.
		The ship is visiting Auckland to celebrate the warm cultural and economic ties between New Zealand and Italy, to support the Louis Vuitton Cup and America’s Cup 2003, and to acknowledge the participation of the Italian challenger syndicates.
		The Amerigo Vespucci is 101 metres in length from bowsprit to stern, displaces 4,100 tonnes, and has 20 types of sails with a surface area of 2800 square metres.
	www.scoop.co.nz /stories/PA0210/S00297.htm (848 words)

	Ships of the World: An Historical Encyclopedia - - Amerigo Vespucci (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Amerigo Vespucci was named for the Florentine explorer for whom the sixteenth-century German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller named the newly discovered landmasses to the west.
		Amerigo Vespucci's full lines are in sharp contrast to the majority of sail-training vessels, which generally follow the finer model adapted from nineteenth-century merchant ship design.
		Amerigo Vespucci resumed her sail-training mission for the Italian navy well into the 1990s.
	college.hmco.com /history/readerscomp/ships/html/sh_004700_amerigovespu.htm (273 words)

	Amerigo Vespucci (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		VESPUCCI, AMERIGO (1451-1512), a Florentine merchant-adventurer whose selfgenerated claims as an explorer and as the first white man to reach the mainland of America in June 1497 have been doubted owing to the impossible distances and positions quoted in the letters in which the claims were made.
		Vespucci's letters described four voyages in all to the New World, the first a private venture, the second under the Spaniard Alonzo de Ojeda, and the last two in the service of King Manoel of Portugal.
		What Vespucci must have thought about the gang of piratical explorers he got involved with, is anybody's guess.
	www.curassow.com /2dvrc/discovery/vespucchi.html (1141 words)

	Amerigo Vespucci
		Vespucci, Amerigo, 1454–1512, Italian navigator in whose honor America was named, b.
		America - America [for Amerigo Vespucci], the lands of the Western Hemisphere—North America, Central...
		Curaçao: History - History Visited by Alonso de Ojeda and Amerigo Vespucci in 1499, Curaçao was not settled by...
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0850759.html (477 words)

	No. 43: Amerigo Vespucci
		Vespucci finally outfitted his own voyage in quest of the passage to the Indian subcontinent that had eluded Columbus.
		Vespucci made two voyages between 1499 and 1502 and possibly a third one in 1503.
		Columbus found the new world, but Vespucci was the man who recognized that it was a new world.
	www.uh.edu /engines/epi43.htm (476 words)

	Amerigo Vespucci
		Built in 1931, the ship was designed as an exact replica of a Renaissance exploration vessel – most aptly the ship that a young Italian by the name of Amerigo Vespucci sailed on when he charted the American (South and North) continents.
		Everything on the Amerigo Vespucci is in exact style of the 15th century.
		Sailing the Amerigo Vespucci is an art in as much as it is a science, a sport and an adventure.
	www.newzealand.com /travel/sights-activities/events-calendar/americas-cup-feature/related-topics-events/amerigo-vespucci.cfm (486 words)

	The St. Petersburg Times - News - Historic Italian Ship Docks for Navy Day
		The Italian sailing ship “Amerigo Vespucci,” one of the most beautiful boats of its kind in the world, is in town until Monday to welcome visitors and take part in Sunday’s naval parade, part of Russia’s Navy Day celebrations.
		The ship’s usual crew doesn’t exceed 300 people but this swells to 450 in the summer months when the vessel takes aboard naval cadets for training journeys.
		True to its being a replica of an 18th-century boat, “Amerigo Vespucci” boasts rig and sheets made solely from traditional materials like canvas and hemp ropes, with the exception of the mooring lines, which have to be synthetic due to international requirements.
	www.sptimes.ru /index.php?action_id=2&story_id=288 (387 words)

	Tall Wooden Ship Models
		The Amerigo Vespucci was built in the port of Stabia in 1931.
		Model is built in wood with less details in comparison with the original one and easy for any one who interested in display this ship in his/her house.
		Marie Claire, the four-masts ship, is used as cargo ship.
	www.oceanfrontnautical.com /tallship1.html (448 words)

	netcowork.it
		A three masts sailing ship, with square sails and jibs, the "Vespucci" is for sure one of the most well known Ambassadors of Italy in the major foreign harbor towns.
		Representing Italy and its Navy is only one of the ship tasks, her main role being training: helmsmen and, at the end of the school year, Officer Cadets who conclude their first year at the Livorno Naval Academy, embark on the "Vespucci".
		Future Italian Navy officers start their sea life on board the "Vespucci" since the early thirties: the ship was launched in 1931 at the Royal Arsenal in Castellamare di Stabia, near Naples.
	www.netcowork.it /artcult/vespucci/vespucce.htm (461 words)

	Agostino Straulino
		First he was on a ship, then in the Gamma assault, where, as a scuba diver with an auto breather and oxygen, he had to assault an enemy unit.
		In 1965 Straulino assumed command of the tall ship Amerigo Vespucci, and also managed to win the 5.5 Meter World title in Naples, while the ship was in port and all the sailors were celebrating his win.
		Then he cruised and raced with Navy school ships, participating in the TransPacific of 1961 with Corsaro II and, in 1973, won the One Ton Cup at Porto Cervo and then the prestigious Giraglia with Ydra..
	www.starclass.org /artman/publish/printer_81.shtml (501 words)

	Amerigo Vespucci
		Amerigo Vespucci wrote a letter to his friend Lorenzo, who was the ruler of Florence.
		After he returned, Vespucci was going over his notes to determine where he had been, and to his surprise he found out that he had crossed the Line of Demarcation, made by Pope Alexander VI.
		Vespucci mapped the Portuguese territory and named harbors as he sailed down the coast of Brazil.
	www.esd.k12.ca.us /Matsumoto/TM30/history/Explorers/vesp.html (677 words)

	Sailing Ship Mast \| Free Info (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Evolution of Sail There are very few sailing ships around nowadays and most of those are used for training purposes or, as here in the United Kingdom, for the enjoyment and pleasure of...
		The mast of a sailing ship is a tall vertical pole which supports the sails.
		Larger ships have several masts, with the size and configuration depending on the...
	www.yourguidetosailing.com /sailing-ship-mast.html (459 words)

	Amerigo Vespucci (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		She was designed by Commander Francesco Rotundi to resemble a ship of the line of the late 1700's.
		Each porthole is individually glazed and each of the ship's eleven boats and launches are constructed using the plank-on-bulkhead method.
		During 1996, this model of the Amerigo Vespucci was exhibited at the Oklahoma City Art Museum.
	home.flash.net /~gspears/amerigo.htm (163 words)

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