ARA Presidente Sarmiento

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34°36′32.23″S 58°21′56.31″W / 34.6089528°S 58.3656417°W / -34.6089528; -58.3656417

Moored at Puerto Madero, Buenos Aires
History
Argentina
Name	Presidente Sarmiento
Namesake	Domingo Faustino Sarmiento
Builder	Laird Brothers, Birkenhead, England
Launched	31 August 1897
In service	1897
Out of service	1961
Status	Museum ship in Buenos Aires, Argentina
General characteristics
Type	Sail training ship
Displacement	2,750 tonnes
Length	81 m (266 ft)
Beam	13.11 m (43.0 ft)
Draught	5.64 m (18.5 ft)
Propulsion	Steam, 3-cylinder compound, 1,000 hp (750 kW), ship rig
National Historic Monument of Argentina

ARA Presidente Sarmiento is a museum ship in Argentina, originally built as a training ship for the Argentine Navy and named after Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, the seventh President of Argentina. It is considered to be the last intact cruising training ship from the 1890s.^[1]