Gloria

put into service in 1968 as a Columbian training ship for naval cadets and a floating overseas ambassador of her country.

has taken part in many martime events, races and festivals.

circumnavigated the globe in 1970; 1971-75 mostly in the Caribbean, 1980 Tall Ships Race in Amsterdam, 1982 in Philadelphia, 1983 in Osaka, 1984 the Tall Ships Race from Puerto Rico to Bermuda and Halifax, 1986 the New York Operation Sail; took part in Australia's bicentenary celebrations and the Regatta from Hobart to Sydney in 1988 as well as the bicentenary celebrations of the French Revolution in Rouen, the 1989 Sail Hamburg, the 1990 Sail Amsterdam, and the 1992 Columbus Regatta, Sail Bremerhaven 2005 and 2015, Hanse Sail Rostock 2019.

named "Gloria" as a reference to the national anthem "Oh gloria inmarcesible" ("Oh unfading glory").