The Amerigo Vespucci is a fully rigged school ship that was ordered and completed together with her sister ship the Cristoforo Colombo in 1928 for the Italian Navy. They both served until 1943 where the Cristoforo Colombo was given as war reparation to the USSR and eventually scrapped. While her sister ship the Amerigo Vespucci is still in service to this day in the Italian Navy as a school ship with a service life of 91 years and no plans to be decommissioned yet. She takes part in many tall ship races and sailing parades, her biggest rival is the German tall ship Gorch Fock. She was named after the Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci, in who's honor the name ''America'' was given to the New World.

I wanted to build this just because it's been on my mind for a long time, I'm still not very proficient with more modern shaped ship hulls and the Amerigo Vespucci has a quite odd stern curvature and it was a bit tricky, but I'm quite happy with the result.


Texture pack I used to build this: John Smith Legacy JSC


Feel free to comment any suggestions/thoughts.