Sagres (ship, 1938)
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The Sagres is a sailing training ship of the Portuguese Navy . In the context of this use, it is also referred to as NRP Sagres with the help of a prefix . The tall ship of the Gorch Fock class , rigged as a barque , was put into service in 1938 as a sailing training ship for the German Navy under the name of Albert Leo Schlageter .
history
The ship was launched on October 30, 1937 at Blohm & Voss in Hamburg from the stack and was put into service on February 12 1938th It was named after the German free corps fighter Albert Leo Schlageter, who was venerated as a martyr by the National Socialists . Until the start of the war , frigate captain Bernhard Rogge was in command of the ship, after which the navy initially used the sailing training ship as a stationary office ship in Kiel . The Albert Leo Schlageter was not put back into service as a sailing training ship until 1944, with 190 officer candidates who had been drafted in October 1943 ( "Crew X / 43" ) and from January 29th to July 27th 1944 their basic nautical training on the Ship completed. After the next course had started according to schedule, on November 14, 1944, she got into a Soviet mine lock near Sassnitz , where she was badly damaged by a mine. 18 (according to other information 15) men were killed. The ship could be saved from sinking, however, was towed to Swinoujscie , where most of the crew disembarked, and brought to Kiel for repairs. Because of the increasing Allied bombing raids on Kiel, they were then brought to Flensburg . There the sailing training ship was confiscated by the Allies .
From Great Britain, the United States sold the ship to Brazil in 1948 for a symbolic price of USD 5,000 . On October 27, 1948, it was officially accepted into the Brazilian Navy as a sailing training ship under the name Guanabara , the home port was Rio de Janeiro . Despite the takeover, she kept her original figurehead , the wooden German eagle .
At the end of 1960 the ship no longer met the requirements of the Navy. It was decommissioned as a sailing training ship, dismantled and then used as a floating base for the command of the Brazilian patrol fleet.
At the same time, Portugal was looking for a tall ship to replace the outdated Sagres . Through the mediation of the Ambassador Teotónio Pereira , the ship was acquired by Portugal for 150,000 USD and has been sailing as a training ship for the Portuguese Navy since February 8, 1962. The Guanabara as its predecessor in the name of the city Sagres renamed, her home port, however, Lisbon . Under the new owner, she received a new figurehead, shown is Heinrich the Seafarer . The cross of the Order of Christ is depicted on the sails .
Since then, Sagres has undertaken training trips every year. Exceptions were the years 1987 and 1991, in which the ship was modernized (among other things, the original MAN engine was replaced and a new water treatment system was installed). Air conditioning was added in 1993.
The Sagres is next to the Arctic and the Creoula the main sail training ship of the Portuguese Navy. In addition to the maritime training of the cadets, she fulfills important diplomatic and representative tasks for Portugal and the Portuguese Navy abroad. Your training trips are closely coordinated with the Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
As a sailing training ship, she undertook training voyages of over eight months, including two circumnavigations of the world in 1978/79 and 1983/84 as well as participation in the transatlantic Columbus regatta in 1992 . A training trip that began on January 19, 2010 took them through Brazil , Uruguay , Argentina , Chile , Peru , Ecuador , Mexico , USA, Japan , South Korea , China , Macau , Timor , Singapore , Thailand , Malaysia , India and Egypt until the end of the year around the world.
The ship is occasionally referred to as the Sagres (II), especially outside of Portugal, although she is the Portuguese Navy's third training ship with that name. The first was a wooden full ship built in England in 1858, which served as a training ship from 1882 to 1898 and was stationed near Porto on the Douro .
Awards
- 1984 honorary member of the Order Infante D. Henrique
- 2007 Medalha Naval Vasco da Gama
- 2012 honorary member of the Order Militar de Cristo
- 2016 Estrela de Honra - 1st class , Cabo Verde
- 2016 Medalha Mérito Tamandaré , Brazil
- 2017 honorary member of the Orden Militar de Avis
Known crew members
- Bernhard Rogge (1899–1982), trained on board in 1938, was in command of Defense Area I from 1957 to 1962 as Rear Admiral
- Horst von Schroeter (1919–2006), trained on board in 1938, was Vice Admiral from 1976 to 1979 in command of the Allied Naval Forces of the Baltic Sea Accesses ( COMNAVBALTAP )
literature
- Gröner, Erich : The German warships 1815–1945 . tape 2 : Special ships, auxiliary war ships, auxiliary ships, small ship formations . JF Lehmanns Verlag, Munich 1968, p. 626-628 .
- Dieter Bechtold : Sail training ship "Albert Leo Schlageter" . in the Atlantic in 1938 - in the Baltic in 1944 (= ships, people, fates . No. 117/118 ). Kiel 2003 (85 pages).
- Hans Joachim Hornoff (Ed.): Under full sails . SSS Albert Leo Schlageter. In the middle of the war. Berlin 2006 (185 pages).
- Walter Niess, Herbert Fischer (ed.): Chronicle of the crew X / 43 . Gifhorn 1999, p. 154-168 .
Web links
- News about the sailing training ship Sagres on the website of the Portuguese Navy (Portuguese) (accessed December 23, 2019)
- History of the ship with list of all commanders on the website of the Portuguese Navy (Portuguese) (accessed 23 December 2019)
- Pictures of the former German, Brazilian and Portuguese commanders of the ship on the website of the Portuguese Navy (Portuguese) (accessed 23 December 2019)
Footnotes
- ↑ In detail Hornoff, Under full sails
- ↑ Portuguese Navy website (Portuguese) (accessed December 23, 2019); Wulf Marquard: The three lives of the “Gorch Fock” . Legend under sails. Stralsund 2008, ISBN 978-3866803091
- ^ Marine, Sagres , accessed December 10, 2015
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from June 22, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Accessed March 15, 2009
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from February 27, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved March 15, 2009
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from February 27, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original dated June 2, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved March 14, 2009
- ^ European sailing information system tall ship: The Sagres
