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Esmeralda (BE-43) Wallpaper 4. Wallpaper gallery of Esmeralda (BE-43) training sailing ship of the Chilean Navy - 4. Esmeralda (BE-43) sailing ship photos and pictures wallpaper collection - 4. Training sailing ship voyage review of Esmeralda (BE-43) - 4. She has participated in the Sailing Operations of New York in 1964, 1976, 1989; the Osaka World Sail in 1983 and International Regattas of Sails held in 1964, 1976, 1982, 1990, wining the “Cutty Sark” trophy in 1982 and 1990. The training of the future seamen on board the Training Ship “Esmeralda” is invaluable. The various events they must confront, the intense training, the elements’ inclemency, and the long seagoing passages, teach these seamen to respect rather than fear the sea. The inner and physical strength developed during these long voyages, prepares young seamen to accomplish their duties that they have sworn to their country and Navy. Her first voyage was to the Canary Islands and then on to New Orleans, where a distillation plant was installed. Esmeralda (BE-43) Wallpaper 4. Wallpaper gallery of Esmeralda (BE-43) training sailing ship of the Chilean Navy - 4. Esmeralda (BE-43) sailing ship photos and pictures wallpaper collection - 4. Training sailing ship voyage review of Esmeralda (BE-43) - 4. She then proceeded through the Panama Canal and arrived at Valparaíso on 1 September 1954 to much fanfare. Reports from Amnesty International, the US Senate and Chilean Truth and Reconciliation Commission describe the ship as a kind of a floating jail and torture chamber for political prisoners of the Augusto Pinochet regime from 1973 to 1980. It is claimed that probably over a hundred persons were kept there at times and subjected to hideous treatment, among them British priest Michael Woodward, who later died as a result of torture. Due to this dark part of its history, the international voyages of the Esmeralda are often highly controversial - especially at the time when Pinochet was still in power but even after the restoration of Chilean democracy. The ship's arrival in various ports being accompanied by protests and demonstrations by local political groups and Chilean exiles. Such protest actions were recorded, among other places, at Dartmouth, Pearl Harbor, Quebec, Vancouver and Victoria, British Columbia, Wellington, Pireus and Haifa,[9] as well as at Santiago in Chile itself, Esmeralda (BE-43) Wallpaper 4. Wallpaper gallery of Esmeralda (BE-43) training sailing ship of the Chilean Navy - 4. Esmeralda (BE-43) sailing ship photos and pictures wallpaper collection - 4. Training sailing ship voyage review of Esmeralda (BE-43) - 4.