ARD Juan Bautista Cambiaso at port of Nesebar, Bulgaria (June 2010)
History
Dominican Republic
Name	ARD Almirante Juan Bautista Cambiaso
Owner	Dominican Navy (Armada de la República Dominicana)
Port of registry	Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Builder	MTG-Dolphin PLC, Varna/Bulgaria
Launched	29 August 2009
Acquired	August 2018
Renamed	August 2018
Identification	IMO number: 9542271 MMSI number: 207369000 Call sign: LZKZ
Status	Active
General characteristics
Length	54 m (177 ft 2 in)
Beam	8 m (26 ft 3 in)
Sail plan	three-masted barquentine; 16 sails, total sail area of 1,000 m2 (11,000 sq ft)

Juan Bautista Cambiaso (BE-01) is a training ship for the Dominican Navy. Launched in 2009, it is a three-masted barquentine (schooner barque) with a hull made of steel and a teak-covered deck. It is named after Genoese-born Dominican Admiral Juan Bautista Cambiaso, who founded the Dominican Navy in 1844.

History

Juan Bautista Cambiaso was launched on 29 August 2009 in Varna, Bulgaria. The ship — originally named Royal Helena— was acquired by the Dominican Navy in August 2018 and named in honor of Admiral Juan Bautista Cambiaso, founder of the Dominican Navy, who defeated the Haitian navy in the Battle of Tortuguero. During this engagement, a force of three Dominican schooners led by then-Commander Juan Bautista Cambiaso (at the helm of the flagship schooner Separación Dominicana) defeated a force of three warships of the Haitian Navy, ensuring naval supremacy for the newborn nation.

The ship replaces an earlier training ship of the same name, acquired from the Canadian Navy in 1947. That ship, a motor-ship of the corvette class, had previously been named HMCS Belleville. It was scrapped by the Dominican Navy in 1972.^[1]

Description

Juan Bautista Cambiaso is a barquentine.^[2] She is 54 metres (177 ft 2 in) long with a beam of 8 metres (26 ft 3 in) and can accommodate up to 37 cadets for multiple-day journeys. Her callsign is LZKZ and she is identified by the MMSI number 207369000.^[3]

Accidents

On 20 June 2017 she struck another vessel, the Victoria, while entering the port of Oudeschild, Netherlands. There were no reports of injured people.^[4][5]