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President Sarmiento reaches 125

ANNIVERSARY

Argentina’s historic frigate President Sarmiento is celebrating itsspecifically built cadet training ship, the 85.5m by 13.32m three-masted vessel made 39 voyages around the world before being converted into a floating museum at Buenos Aires in 1964, where she remains today as a National Historical Monument, berthed in the City’s Puerto Madero dock complex.

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