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Asdrúbal el Bello
27-03-2010, 21:38
Beautiful picture in the port of Malaga. The galleon Andalucía in route to Shanghai for Expo 2010.
John Odom
27-03-2010, 23:51
A beautiful ship. The sailing feats of those times and ships were amazing! It is good that they are being memorialized.
steve roberts
28-03-2010, 10:52
Hi Asdrubal.We have a similar ship over here in England.It is a Replica of Sir Francis Drake's GOLDEN HIND.She in her time would unfortunately have been hunting your type of ship:D Many Regards Steve.
Asdrúbal el Bello
28-03-2010, 14:53
Hi Asdrubal.We have a similar ship over here in England.It is a Replica of Sir Francis Drake's GOLDEN HIND.She in her time would unfortunately have been hunting your type of ship:D Many Regards Steve.

Wow, to faced with Sir Francis Drake's Golden Hind :cool: already was built in 1992 the ship Victoria , in memoriam of the first circumnavigate of the Earth in 1522. She repeated the travel in 2004-2005 on the occasion of EXPO 2005 in Aichi.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/43/Nao_Victoria.jpg
steve roberts
28-03-2010, 19:03
Hi Asdrubal.Those are two fine looking ships.Our "Golden Hind" has an auxiliary Diesel engine in case there is no wind.Do your two have anything similar? I'm sorry I don't have a picture of our replica,but I am sure some body on the Forum will be able to provide one. Regards Steve.
Asdrúbal el Bello
28-03-2010, 22:11
Of course the two ships have auxiliares engines. The Victoria is the most "spartan". The habitability of the Andalucía is more comfortably.

The Golden Hind

http://gallery.hd.org/_exhibits/places-and-sights/_more2007/_more08/England-Devon-Brixham-the-Golden-Hind-tall-ship-replica-2-PAR.jpg

By the way, where is this port? Bournemouth? I look strikingly similar to some of the ports on the north coast of Spain where I lived as a child.
steve roberts
01-04-2010, 09:20
Hi Asdrubal.Sorry to be so long in getting back to you over this.I have only just found the time to look at the Link you posted.The post is a small fishing town called Brixham in Devon.Very near the large holiday resort of Torquay.Regards Steve.:)