Rickmer Rickmers
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Rickmer Rickmers is a sailing ship moored in Hamburg harbour.
The ship 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 the Max was captured by the British Army in a Portuguese harbour. For the remainder of the war the ship sailed under the Union Jack, as the Flores. After World War I she became a Portuguese ship and was once more renamed, as Sagres. In 1958, she won the Tall Ships' Race.
In the early 1960s the Sagres was renamed yet again as the Santo Andre, and laid up in a shipyard. She was purchased in 1983 by an organisation named "Windjammer für Hamburg e.V.", renamed for the last time to Rickmer Rickmers, and turned into a floating museum ship.
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