Princess Leonor dives in aboard Spanish Navy training ship – CSN Information

Within hours of Leonor Borbón Ortiz tipping onto the training ship Juan Sebastián de Elcano for the very first time she was currently duplicating a few of the pictures that her dad, Felipe VI, took on board virtually 40 years back.

Last Wednesday Princess Leonor had her very first call with those accountable of the ship and with the various other 75 midshipmen with whom she will certainly invest over half a year cruising the waters of a number of seas.

A day later on, the successor to the throne accomplished the very first tasks as component of her navy training at the Marín Naval Institution in Pontevedra. Prior to establishing training course for the high seas and setting out from the Port of Cadiz, Leonor saw what the Juan Sebastián de Elcano appears like within, on deck and from its acme.

A half-year trip.

The training ship, a nearly century-old vessel, dived in on Saturday 11 January for America, where Leonor and her various other friends will certainly start a trip that will certainly absorb 8 nations and 6 Spanish cities. In Elcano’s travelogue, with the Princess aboard, the staff are anticipated to go to first of all Santa Cruz de Tenerife and Las Palmas de Grandmother Canaria.

Days later on it will certainly go across the Atlantic to Salvador de Bahía in Brazil, Montevideo (Uruguay), Punta Arenas and Valparaíso (Chile), El Callao (Peru), Panama City, Cartagena de Indias and Santa Marta in Colombia and Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic). From there the following quit will certainly be the USA in the anchors at New york city. Leonor will certainly go back to Spain by airplane from the Huge Apple prior to boarding once again in Gijón, the homeland of her mom, Queen Letizia. The last day of the journey is established for 21 July, in the city of Cadiz.