MUSCAT: The 93-year-old Amerigo Vespucci, Italian navy’s oldest active military vessel, docked at Port Sultan Qaboos on Wednesday morning. The ship will remain in Muscat till January 12 and be open to the public on January 9, 10 and 11.
Amerigo Vespucci’s arrival to Oman is part of its 20-month-long world tour, during which it has visited more than 30 ports across the globe, from Mumbai to Singapore and Tokyo.
Designed and launched in 1931, the three-masted Amerigo Vespucci is 82 metres long and boasts three main decks.
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