ARC Gloria
Introduction '''ARC ''Gloria''''' () is a three-masted barque. She is a training ship and official flagship of the Colombian Navy.The Colombian Government authorized its navy to acquire a training ship in 1966.A contract was signed with the Spanish shipyard Celaya of Bilbao in October 1966, and began to be fulfilled in April 1967.The ship was commissioned on 7 September 1968 with the vessel moored at the wharf of Deusto Channel. She is one of four similar barques built as sail training vessels for Latin American navies; her half-sisters are the Mexican , the Venezuelan  and the Ecuadoran . Their design is similar to the 1930 designs of the German firm Blohm & Voss, like ,  and NRP ''Sagres''.The ship's name is a reference to the national anthem, ''Oh gloria inmarcesible'' (''O Unfading Glory'').Currently (2019), captain of the ship is Camilo M. Gutiérrez Olano.
References *  Armada Nacional República de Colombia*