T.S Esmeralda, the Chilean Navy’s Training Ship, is visiting Wellington. The ship will be open to the public at Queen’s Wharf on June 7-8, from 2pm – 5pm.

The world's longest sailing ship sailed into Wellington Harbour this morning.



The T.S Esmeralda - a Chilean navy training ship - will be at Somes Island from today and at Queen's Wharf on June 5.

The ship has arrived a day earlier than previously announced.

The ship's crew will take part in a wreath-laying ceremony at the National War Memorial on June 6.



The steel-hulled, four-masted barquentine tall ship, which is the longest and second tallest sailing ship in the world, is visiting Wellington as part of a 260-day, 30,000 nautical mile journey to visit ten countries. It's the 17th time the ship has been in New Zealand



The ship has been identified by Amnesty International as having been used as a floating jail and torture chamber for political prisoners in 1973.

Visit details: The ship will enter Queen's Wharf at 8.30am on Tuesday June 5 and will be open to the public on June 7 and 8 from 2-5pm. It will leave at noon on June 9.

TS Esmeralda characteristics

Steel-hulled four-masted barquentine

Laid down: 1946

Launched: May 12, 1953

Nickname: La Dama Blanca (The White Lady)



Displacement: 3673 tons

Length: 113 m (371 ft)

Beam: 13.11 m (43 ft)

Mast Height: 48.5 m (159 ft)

Draft: 7 m (23 ft)

Stanchion: 8.7 meters

Gunwale height: 5.3 meters

Maximum engine speed: 13 knots

Maximum sail speed: 17.5 knots

Armament: 4 × 57 mm ceremonial gun mounts

Crew: 300 sailors, 90 midshipmen

Sails: 21 total with a sail area of 2,870 m²



The ship's sister ship is the training vessel for the Spanish Navy, the four-masted topsail schooner Juan Sebastián Elcano