Rickmer Rickmers

"Rickmer Rickmers" is a sailing ship (three masted bark) permanently moored as a museum ship in Hamburg harbour, near the Cap San Diego.

The "Rickmer Rickmers" was built in 1896 by the Rickmers shipyard in Bremerhaven, and was first used on the Hong Kong route carrying rice and bamboo. In 1912 she was bought by Carl Christian Krabbenhöft, renamed "Max", and transferred to the Hamburg - Chile route.

In World War I the "Max" was captured by the British Army in a Portuguese harbour. For the remainder of the war the ship sailed under the Union Jack, as the "Flores". After World War I she became a Portuguese ship and was once more renamed, as "Sagres" (the second of that name). In 1958, she won the Tall Ships' Race.

In the early 1960s the "Sagres (II)" was retired from school ship service when the Portuguese navy purchased from Brazil the school ship "Guanabera", (originally launched in Germany in 1937 as the "Albert Leo Schlageter" and renamed "Sagres (III)," and was laid up in a shipyard. She was purchased in 1983 by an organisation named "Windjammer für Hamburg e.V.", renamed for the last time, back to "Rickmer Rickmers", and turned into a floating museum ship.

External links

* [http://www.rickmer-rickmers.de Museum's website]