Rickmer Rickmers (ship)

**Rickmer Rickmers**
	As a museum ship in the port of Hamburg
Ship data
flag	Germany
other ship names	Max; Flores; Sagres; Santo André;
Ship type	Sailing ship, training ship
home port	Hamburg
Shipyard	Rickmer Clasen Rickmers, Bremerhaven
Launch	August 1896
Whereabouts	Museum ship
Ship dimensions and crew
length	97.0 m ( Lüa ) 80.37 m ( KWL )
width	12.19 m
Draft	Max. 6.0 m
measurement	2,007 GRT
Rigging and rigging
Rigging	Full ship, from 1904 barque
Number of masts	3
Sail area	3,500 m² (as a full ship)
Transport capacities
Load capacity	3,060 dwt

The Rickmer Rickmers is a three-masted steel cargo sailing ship , which today is moored as a museum and memorial ship in the Port of Hamburg near the St. Pauli Landungsbrücken .

history

Bow with figurehead

Crew of the Rickmer Rickmers 1908

The Rickmer Rickmers was launched as a full ship in August 1896 at the shipyard of the Bremerhaven shipping company Rickmer Clasen Rickmers . It was named after the shipowner's grandson, Rickmer Rickmers (1893–1974). The first voyage took the ship to Hong Kong , where it loaded rice and bamboo , and brought it to Germany. The ship and the 21-man crew were initially led by Captain Hermann Hinrich Ahlers. It made a total of twelve tours, mostly over the United States or the Far East . In a hurricane in the Indian Ocean , the ship lost its mast in 1904 and the crew was able to rescue it in the port of Cape Town . There it was for reasons of cost to Bark umgetakelt .

The Hamburg shipping company Carl Christian Krabbenhöft acquired the ship in 1912 and renamed it Max . It was used for the next two years to transport coal from Wales to Chile and to transport saltpeter from Chile to Europe . In 1914, after the outbreak of World War I , the ship anchored off the neutral Azores in Horta .

On February 23, 1916, the ship was confiscated by the Portuguese Armed Forces . Under the name Flores , it then transported war goods for Great Britain .

After a renovation, the ship served as a training ship for the Portuguese Navy from 1924 under the name Sagres . In 1930 it received two auxiliary diesel engines in this way. In 1958 she won the Tall Ships' Races regatta . The time as a sailing training ship ended in 1962 with the commissioning of the current Sagres . Then the three-master was under the name Santo André as a depot ship in the Alfeite marine port near Lisbon .

Museum ship and foundation

In 1974, the chairman of the Hamburg Port Association, Fiete Schmidt, founded the Windjammer für Hamburg association with the aim of "keeping Hamburg's past as a merchanting and shipping city in vivid memory." The association became aware of the former Rickmer Rickmers in 1978 and exchanged her in 1983 for run down against the yacht Anne Linde (now Polar ). After several years of restoration , it has since served under its first name as a museum ship at the Hamburg Landungsbrücken.

The maximum mast height is (restored) 54 meters. Visitors can climb up to a height of 30 m on the Standing Gut for a view .

The operator, the Rickmer Rickmers Foundation , awards the title of Honorary Captain almost every year for special services to persons who are worthy of their point of view. So far 17 people or organizations have been honored as honorary captains: Herbert von Nitzsch, Kyril Tulin, Arved Fuchs , Hans-Joachim Mann , Hans-Otto Schümann , Heiner Sumfleth, Peter Tamm , Eberhard Möbius , Enrique Alfonso da Silva Horta, Heinrich P. Mühlhan, Heinrich Martin Gehrckens, Nikolaus W. Schües, the German Society for the Rescue of Shipwrecked People , Helge Adolphsen , Norbert Schmelzle, Uwe Seeler , Wilhelm Klüver and most recently in 2015 Johannes Kahrs and Rüdiger Kruse .