Rickmer Rickmers

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

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
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[1]

Rickmer Rickmers Museum

Location of the Rickmer Rickmers Show map of Hamburg Rickmer Rickmers (Germany) Show map of Germany
Established	1983
Location	Hamburg, Germany
Coordinates	53.5447°N 9.9725°E / 53.5447; 9.9725
Type	Museum ship
Website	http://www.rickmer-rickmers.de

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.