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The “most beautiful ship in the world” has arrived back home.

The Italian Navy’s 90-year-old training ship Amerigo Vespucci arrived in Trieste from her Grande Equipaggio tour on 1 March 2025, welcomed by a host of mariners and the aircraft carrier Cavour (C 550) — which recently capped a five-month deployment to the Indo-Pacific region herself. 

Vespucci left Italy on 1 July 2023 on a 46,000-mile, 20-month world tour that saw her round the Cape for the first time, and conducted 35 port visits in 30 countries on five continents.

She remains easy on the eyes.