Rickmer Rickmers

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Flag of the German Empire.svg  German Empire
NameRickmer Rickmers
LaunchedAugust 1896
OwnerHamburger Reederei Carl Christian Krabbenhöft
Acquired1912
RenamedMax
NotesSailed in the saltpeter trade in Chile.
Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal
NameFlores
Captured1916
FateLent to the United Kingdom
NotesSeized in the Azores by the Portuguese authorities in 1916 and lent to the United Kingdom.
Naval Ensign of the United Kingdom.svgUnited Kingdom
NameFlores
Acquired1916
FateReturned to Portugal
NotesLent by Portugal to the United Kingdom to be used as war transport. Returned to Portugal after the war.
Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal
NameNRP Sagres
Commissioned1924
Decommissioned1975
RenamedNRP Santo André, 1962
FateTransferred to Verein Windjammer für Hamburg e.V., Germany in 1983
Notes School ship for the Portuguese Navy. Victory over the Christian Radich in a 1958 sailing regatta.
Notes Hulked depot ship until 1983
Flag of Germany.svg  Germany
NameRickmer Rickmers
OwnerVerein Windjammer für Hamburg e.V., Hamburg, Germany
Acquired1983
Status Museum ship
General characteristics
Class and type Windjammer
Tonnage1,980 GRT, 3,067 DWT
Beam12.20 m
Draft6 m
PropulsionSails; steam engine; 350 hp Krupp diesel engines installed 1930
Sail plan Full-rigged ship, 3,500 m2 sail area [1]
Rickmer Rickmers Museum
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Location of the Rickmer Rickmers
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Rickmer Rickmers (Germany)
Established1983
LocationHamburg, Germany
Coordinates 53°32′41″N9°58′21″E / 53.5447°N 9.9725°E / 53.5447; 9.9725
Type Museum ship
Website www.rickmer-rickmers.de

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

Rickmer Clasen Rickmers, (1807–1886) was a Bremerhaven shipbuilder and Willi Rickmer Rickmers, (1873–1965) led a Soviet-German expedition to the Pamirs in 1928.

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 Max was captured by the Government of Portugal, in Horta (Azores) harbour and loaned to the United Kingdom as a war aid. For the remainder of the war the ship sailed in British service, as Flores. After World War I she was returned to the Portuguese Government, becoming a Portuguese Navy training ship and was once more renamed, as NRPSagres (the second of that name). In 1958, she won the Tall Ships' Race.

In the early 1960s Sagres (II) was retired from school ship service when the Portuguese Navy purchased, from Brazil, the school ship Guanabara (originally launched in Germany in 1937 as Albert Leo Schlageter ). In 1962, the former Guanabara was commissioned as school ship with the name Sagres (III). At the same time Sagres (II) was renamed Santo André and reclassified as depot ship. The NRP Santo André remained moored at the Lisbon Naval Base, being decommissioned in 1975.

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.

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References

  1. ↑ "Museumschiff Rickmer Rickmers". Geschichte. Retrieved 13 September 2010.
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