Rickmer Rickmers

Rickmer Rickmers and Cap San Diego
History
Germany
Name	Rickmer Rickmers
Launched	August 1896
Owner	Hamburger Reederei Carl Christian Krabbenhöft
Acquired	1912
Renamed	Max
Notes	Sailed in the saltpeter trade in Chile.
History
United Kingdom
Acquired	1916
Renamed	Flores
Notes	Seized in the Azores by the Portuguese authorities in 1916. Became war transport for United Kingdom. Returned to Portugal after the war.
History
Portugal
Name	NRP Sagres
Commissioned	1924
Renamed	1962
Notes	School ship for the Portuguese Navy. Victory over the Christian Radich in a 1958 sailing regatta.
Name	NRP Santo André
Decommissioned	1975
Notes	Hulked depot ship until 1983
History
Germany
Owner	Verein Windjammer für Hamburg e.V., Hamburg, Germany
Acquired	1983
Renamed	Rickmer Rickmers
General characteristics
Class and type	Windjammer
Tons burthen	1.980 BRT, 3.067 TDW
Beam	12,20 m
Draft	6 m
Propulsion	Sails; steam engine; 350 hp Krupp diesel engines installed 1930
Sail plan	Full-rigged ship, 3.500 m2 sail area

Rickmer Rickmers Museum

Location of the Rickmer Rickmers Rickmer Rickmers (Germany)
Established	1983
Location	Hamburg, Germany
Type	Museum ship
Website	http://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 under the Union Jack, 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 NRP Sagres (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.

External links

• Museum website in German
• Pictures of the Rickmer Rickmers in German
• Interactive Panorama: Rickmer Rickmers in English