The ARC Gloria is a three-masted barque. She is a training ship and official flagship of the Colombian Navy. She was built by Astilleros Celaya S.A., Bilbao, Spain, and she was commissioned on 7 September 1968. She is one of four similar barques built as sail training vessels for Latin American navies; her half-sisters are the Mexican Cuauhtémoc, the Venezuelan Simón Bolívar and the Ecuadoran Guayas. Their design is similar to the 1930 designs of the German firm Blohm & Voss, like Gorch Fock, USCGC Eagle and the NRP Sagres. She has an overall length of 64.7 M, a beam of 10.6 M, a draft of 6.6 M, and a displacement of 1,300 tons.