Autograph request
Picture postcard sent to Bray by The the Captain of the Argentinian Training Ship, "Presidento Sarmiento" resulting from the request sent by Bray during April 1905.
Fragata Presidente Sarmiento is the first training ship of the Argentine Navy and was named after the seventh President of Argentina, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, who always wanted that young marines travel around the world to complete their education. The ship was finished in 1896 and, after several tests, it finally left Liverpool’s port, in England, on July 14, 1898, and arrive at in August of 1898.
From its arrival in Buenos Aires in 1898 to 1939, Fragata Presidente Sarmiento made 39 trips around the globe, along which it covered 2.035.000 km aproximately. It continued to serve as a training ship until 1961. A year later, in June, 1962, Fragata Sarmiento was declared National Historic Monument.
