Two foreign ships have docked in Baltimore this weekend and were open to the public. Both of the ships are modern , yet still it have a plenty of charm of the good old sailing days.
The first one was Brazilian Navy Vessel Cisne Branco, from Rio de Janeiro. This is the fourth visit to Baltimore for this ship. One thing missing from the images is the the Brazilian music that was playing on board.
There are five US midshipmen from the Naval Academy in Annapolis on board this vessel, on a month long exchange program. According to them, the greatest difficulty was the language barrier: neither crew spoke the language of the other, except for a few basic phrases. It would be really interesting to find out how did they manage to communicate and bring this ship all the way from Rio.
The second vessel was INS Tarangini, from Kochi, India (INS stands fro Indian Navy Ship). It was built in 1997 in Goa, India.
The crew of this ship has challenged American Navy for a soccer match. I wonder if US sailors play baseball with their counterparts when they visit different parts of the world.
This article has more information about these ships.
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