Paraguay - The country, which is only accessible via the Rio Paraguay and is cut off from the open sea, has a very small but illustrious navy. The units are all quite old. The headlines are therefore usually only made by the traditional ship of the Paraguayans, the HUMAIT\u00c1, a 70-metre-long, 850-tonne gunboat that has been moored firmly on the banks of the Bah\u00eda de Asunci\u00f3n since December. That is why, as the commander of the Paraguayan navy assured us, it cannot really run aground and possibly sink as the navy's pride and joy, despite its heavy list. Waves whipped up by the storm and pressed against the hull on all sides allowed the water to penetrate into the engine room.<\/p>\n
Fortunately, there is also its sister ship, the CA\u00d1ONERO PARAGUAY, also built in Italy in the early 1930s. The CA\u00d1ONERO made itself immortal when it made a decisive contribution to victory during the Guerra del Chaco (1932 to 1935) with Bolivia by transporting over 50,000 soldiers on countless journeys to the harbour of Puerto Casado, 400 miles upstream on the Rio Paraguay. September 1955 should also be mentioned, when the CA\u00d1ONERO transported the ousted Argentinian President Juan Domingo Per\u00f3n from Buenos Aires to Asunci\u00f3n.<\/p>\n
The CA\u00d1ONERO has always been the flagship of the Paraguayan fleet, which today consists of only two units with a displacement of more than 100 tonnes in addition to a handful of motorboats. Although it was taken out of service in 1975, the CA\u00d1ONERO serves as a training platform for all ranks of this small navy. Recently, however, it was decided in Puerto Sajonia to refurbish and re-motorise the ship after 55 years of lay-up. The intention was to have the ship sail again on its own keel and with a crew of 270 people on the Rio Paraguay about 100 nautical miles upriver to Puerto Rosario on the 88th anniversary of the end of the Guerra del Chaco. This happened as a national event in mid-June. A navy with much more history than firepower!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Paraguay \u2013 Das nur \u00fcber den Rio Paraguay zug\u00e4ngliche, vom Zugang zum freien Meer abgeschnittene Land verf\u00fcgt \u00fcber eine zwar sehr \u00fcberschaubare, aber illustre Marine. Die Einheiten sind durchweg recht betagt. Schlagzeilen macht daher meist nur das Traditionsschiff der Paraguayos, die HUMAIT\u00c1, ein Kanonenschiff, das mit seinen 70 Meter L\u00e4nge und ehemals 850 Tonnen seit […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":31529,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"2normal","footnotes":""},"categories":[23,486,32],"tags":[6034,6035,78,6032,6033],"class_list":["post-31526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marinen-aus-aller-welt","category-headlines","category-magazin","tag-canonero","tag-humaita","tag-marine","tag-paraguay","tag-rio-paraguay"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}