The "BAP Union" of the Peruvian Navy is the second, after the Russian "Sedov." We see him entering Havana here.

With the delivery of the Peruvian Navy school ship, the "BAP Union," the list of the ten largest school ships in the world has remained as follows. The ship of the Peruvian Navy for the second position relegating the fourth to "Juan Sebastián de Elcano." At the level of "civilian marines" the largest is the "Kruzenshtern" transferred to the National Baltic Fisheries Academy, based in Estonia.

The top ten of the world's school ships are as follows:

1 SEDOV (Russia) with 117.5 meters in length and 14.9 in sleeve, maximum speed 18.0 knots
2 BAP UNION (Peru) 115.75 m / 13.5 m / 12.0 knots
3rd KRUZENSHTERN (Estonia) 114.40 m / 14 m / 17.3 knots
4th JUAN SEBASTIAN ELCANO (Spain) 113.1 m. / 13.1 m. / 16.5 knots
5th ESMERALDA (Chile) 113.1 m / 13.1 m / 16.5 knots
6th NIPPON MARU (Japan) 110.9 m / 13.8 m / 16.0 knots
7th PALLADA (Russia) 109.4 m / 13.6 m / 18.7 knots
8th STS MIR (Russia) 109.2 m. / 13.9 m. / 19.4 knots
9th DAR MLODZIEZY (Poland) 108.8 m. / 13.9 m. / 16.0 knots
10 ° NADEZHDA (Russia) 108.6 m. / 14.0 m. / 16.5 knots

El Buque Escuela a Vela "BAP Unión," has been built entirely by the Industrial Services of the Marina S.A. SIMA-PERU Peruvian company of long and fruitful industrial trajectory. After intense work involving engineers and technicians, the imposing unit has a profound meaning for Peruvian sailors and fills us with pride as the largest sailboat in Latin America. Considered as part of the territory of the country at sea and abroad, the "Union" is constituted as the "Itinerant Embassy" representing the Peruvian State through the image of the National and Maritime Power in the diplomatic, cultural, commercial and military fields. It sails in order to promote maritime knowledge, and contributes with the State's Foreign Policy through protocolar activities during the navigation and in the ports that arrive El Buque Escuela a Vela "BAP Union" has four sticks with brickish-like gear with 34 candles. It is the largest region and the second largest in the world, with 115.7 meters in length (counting the baupres), 13.5 meters in manga, and four thousand 324 square meters in volica. It has 6 meters of driveway and has a displacement of 3500 tons, with capacity to accommodate 257 people aboard.