{"id":473292,"date":"2026-09-23T18:06:24","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T18:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/473292\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T18:06:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T18:06:24","slug":"a-tall-ship-is-in-san-francisco-this-week-and-you-can-go-aboard-for-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/473292\/","title":{"rendered":"A Tall Ship Is in San Francisco This Week \u2013 and You Can Go Aboard for Free"},"content":{"rendered":"

After passing under the Golden Gate Bridge Wednesday, the Mexican Navy\u2019s tall ship Cuauht\u00e9moc will be at the Embarcadero all week, and you can tour her for free.<\/p>\n

Sep 23, 2026<\/p>\n

Updated 10:31 am PT<\/p>\n

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The Mexican Navy training vessel ARM Cuauht\u00e9moc BE-01 is visiting San Francisco this week.\u00a0(Courtesy of Ocean Alliances)<\/p>\n

If you were traveling over the Golden Gate Bridge<\/a> on Wednesday morning, you\u2019d have been treated to an unexpected sight through the fog: a 300-foot long \u201ctall ship\u201d passing under the span, flying a giant Mexican flag from its stern.<\/p>\n

The Mexican Navy\u2019s tall ship Cuauht\u00e9moc will now be berthed on the Embarcadero in San Francisco for the next four days as part of a goodwill visit \u2014 where you can go aboard this 120-foot high ship for free.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The ship \u2014 full name ARM Cuauht\u00e9moc BE-01 \u2014 isn\u2019t the kind of historic tall ship you might be thinking of. Built in Spain in 1981, she functions as a training vessel for the Mexican Navy, where midshipmen learn seamanship.<\/p>\n

The Cuauht\u00e9moc is visiting San Francisco as part of its 2026 North Pacific Training Cruise: a 92-day trip during which the tall ship is stopping at ports in the United States, Mexico and Canada.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And if the Cuauht\u00e9moc\u2019s name is familiar, it\u2019s the same ship that collided with the Brooklyn Bridge<\/a> in 2025, killing two people aboard and injuring multiple other service personnel.<\/p>\n

The ship spent four months in a Staten Island shipyard<\/a> following the crash, and is now fully repaired.<\/p>\n

The Cuauht\u00e9moc\u2019s Wednesday morning voyage under the Golden Gate Bridge \u2014 which has a much higher clearance than the Brooklyn Bridge \u2014 passed without incident.<\/p>\n

What to know about visiting the Cuauht\u00e9moc this week:<\/p>\n

\nWhere can I visit the Cuauht\u00e9moc?\n<\/p>\n

The Cuauht\u00e9moc will be berthed at Piers 15\u201317 on the Embarcadero in San Francisco (see the location on Google Maps<\/a>).\u00a0<\/p>\n

For context, this is the same location as the Exploratorium, and it\u2019s on Muni\u2019s historic F streetcar line \u2014 just request the Embarcadero and Green Street stop on board.<\/p>\n

\nWhen is the Cuauht\u00e9moc open to the public?\n<\/p>\n

According to Ocean Alliances, the nonprofit that\u2019s hosting the tall ship\u2019s visit to San Francisco, you\u2019ll be able to step onboard and see the Cuauht\u00e9moc\u2019s decks, mast and rigging up-close \u2014 as well as meet its naval crew.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Mireya Maga\u00f1a Galvez, the Mexican Consulate\u2019s deputy consul general, told KQED by email that public tours will go beyond the ship\u2019s deck, but that exact details will likely depend on demand.<\/p>\n

\"\"The Mexican Navy training vessel ARM Cuauht\u00e9moc BE-01 is visiting San Francisco this week.\u00a0(Courtesy of Ocean Alliances)<\/p>\n

You can board the ship, for free, during the following times this week:<\/p>\n

\nWednesday (Sept. 23)\n<\/p>\n

\nThursday (Sept. 24)\n<\/p>\n

10 a.m. \u2013 12 p.m.4 p.m. \u2013 8 p.m.<\/p>\n

\nFriday (Sept. 25)\n<\/p>\n

\nSaturday (Sept. 26)\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

Want to see this tall ship in motion instead? On Sunday, Sept. 27, there\u2019ll be a \u201cFarewell at the Dock\u201d\u00a0 ceremony at 9:30 a.m. before the Cuauht\u00e9moc departs San Francisco at 10 a.m.<\/p>\n

And if you can\u2019t make it to the ship in person, it should be visible from certain parts of the Bay Bridge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After passing under the Golden Gate Bridge Wednesday, the Mexican Navy\u2019s tall ship Cuauht\u00e9moc will be at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-473292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}