The beautiful 297' Cuauhtémoc, named after the last Aztec emperor, has served as a training vessel for the Mexican Navy for more than twenty years. She is the last of four sister ships built by the Naval Shipyards of Bilbao, Spain, in 1982, all built to a design similar to the 1930 designs of the German firm Blohm & Voss, like USCGC Eagle. She participates worldwide in tall ship events while teaching the essential elements of seamanship and navigation taking more than one hundred cadets to sea.