II1IAFC Regia Nave Cristoforo Colombo

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Special Call II1IAFC during the Museum Ships Weekend on 6-7 June. The sailing ship Cristoforo Colombo was used by the Italian Royal Navy, togeter with the ship Amerigo Vespucci (still in service), to train the cadets of the Navy until the end of WW2. The ship was built by the Royal Shipyard of Castellammare di Stabia (near Naples) and launched the april 4th 1928. After the end of WW2 was given to the Soviet Union. The Soviet Navy used the ship first as training ship on the Black Sea until 1959. In 1961 was dismasted and used as a wood carrier. In 1963 the ship burned and in 1971 was definitively dismantled. The figurehead of the ship, representing the great navigator Cristoforo Colombo is still visible inside the Naval Technical Museum of Italian Navy in La Spezia.