Rickmer Rickmers

History
German Empire
Name	Rickmer Rickmers
Launched	August 1896
Owner	Hamburger Reederei Carl Christian Krabbenhöft
Acquired	1912
Renamed	Max
Notes	Sailed in the saltpeter trade in Chile.
Portugal
Name	Flores
Captured	1916
Fate	Lent to the United Kingdom
Notes	Seized in the Azores by the Portuguese authorities in 1916 and lent to the United Kingdom.
United Kingdom
Name	Flores
Acquired	1916
Fate	Returned to Portugal
Notes	Lent by Portugal to the United Kingdom to be used as war transport. Returned to Portugal after the war.
Portugal
Name	NRP Sagres
Commissioned	1924
Decommissioned	1975
Renamed	NRP Santo André, 1962
Fate	Transferred 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
Germany
Name	Rickmer Rickmers
Owner	Verein Windjammer für Hamburg e.V., Hamburg, Germany
Acquired	1983
Status	Museum ship
General characteristics
Class and type	Windjammer
Tonnage	1,980 GRT, 3,067 DWT
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[1]

53°32′41″N 9°58′21″E / 53.5447°N 9.9725°E / 53.5447; 9.9725TypeMuseum shipWebsitewww.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 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.

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