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1896
She was built in 1896 to carry rice and bamboo from Hong Kong
Rickmer Rickmers is a three-masted barque, permanently moored as a museum ship in Hamburg near the Cap San Diego. She was built in 1896 by the Rickmers shipyard in Bremerhaven and was first used on the Hong Kong route carrying rice and bamboo.
Max
In 1912 she was sold, renamed Max and sent to Chile
In 1912 she was bought by Carl Christian Krabbenhöft, renamed Max, and transferred to the Hamburg to Chile route.
A war prize
Portugal seized her in World War I and she became a naval training ship
In World War I Max was captured by the Government of Portugal in Horta harbour in the Azores and loaned to the United Kingdom as a war aid, sailing as Flores. After the war she returned to Portugal as a navy training ship, renamed NRP Sagres. In 1958 she won the Tall Ships' Race.
Home
In 1983 an association bought her and brought her back to Hamburg
Retired in the early 1960s, she remained moored at the Lisbon Naval Base until she was decommissioned in 1975. She was purchased in 1983 by an organisation named Windjammer für Hamburg, renamed Rickmer Rickmers for the last time and turned into a floating museum ship.
Day 2, midday
It comes after Landungsbrücken. Then Old Elbe Tunnel.
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