Vera Cruz

Class: B

Rigging: Caravelle

Height: 27.69 m

Hull length: 23.82 m

Country of origin: Portugal

Year of construction: 2002

Home port: Lisbon

The Caravelle Vera Cruz, the third to be built by APORVELA to the original design by Alm shipbuilder Rogerio de Oliveira, was intended to replace the previous "Boa Esperanca"During her twelve years of service as a sail training vessel for APORVELA trainees, she sailed 60,000 miles across the Atlantic and Mediterranean, visiting ports in Northern and Southern Europe, Morocco, the Caribbean and the United States, enabling hundreds of young and not-so-young trainees to have their first experience of the sea and learn to sail.