is a sailing ship moored 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 renamed yet
again as the Santo Andre, and 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. |
