NRP Sagres III
- Albert Leo Schlageter
- Guanabara
The Sagres is a tall ship and sail training ship of the Portuguese Navy. The on Gorch-Fock- class was provided as a sail training ship of the German Navy under the name Albert Leo Schlageter in service ..
History
The ship was launched on October 30, 1937 at Blohm & Voss in Hamburg from the stack and was put into service on 12 February 1938. It was named after, among other revered by the Nazis as a martyr German Freikorps fighters Albert Leo Schlageter .. Until the outbreak of war frigate Captain Bernhard Rogge was commander of the ship, after which the Navy used the sail training ship as a stationary office ship in Kiel. The Albert Leo Schlageter was again only found in maritime service in 1944. On November 14, 1944, she fell into a Soviet minefield before Sassnitz, was towed to Swinoujscie and then came over Kiel to Flensburg. There, the sail training ship was seized by the Allies.
The ship was sold by the United States for a symbolic price of $ 5,000 to Brazil in 1948 from Britain. On October 27, 1948, was officially incorporated as a sail training ship under the name of Guanabara in the Brazilian Navy, was the home port of Rio de Janeiro. Defy the takeover she kept her original figurehead, the wooden German eagle.
End of 1960, the ship no longer satisfy the needs of the Navy. It was provided as a sail training ship out of service, disarmed, tired in places 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 obsolete Sagres. The ship from Portugal was acquired for $ 150,000 Through the mediation of Ambassador Teotónio Pereira and travels since February 8, 1962 as a sail training ship of the Portuguese Navy. The Guanabara was like its predecessor renamed to the name of the town of Sagres, her home port is, however, Lisbon. Under the new owners, she received a new figurehead shown is Henry the Navigator. On the sails of the Cross of the Order of Christ is depicted.
The Sagres undertook every year since training rides. Exceptions were the years 1987 and 1991, in which the ship was modernized ( among others, the original MAN engine was replaced and a new water treatment plant built in). This was supplemented in 1993 nor air conditioning.
The Sagres is in addition to the polar and the Creoula the main sail training ship of the Portuguese Navy. They met in addition to the maritime training of cadets important diplomatic and representative tasks for Portugal and the Portuguese navy abroad. Your training rides are closely coordinated with the Portuguese Foreign Affairs and Trade Ministry.
As a training ship she has taken training journeys over eight months, among them were 1978/79 and 1983/84 two circumnavigation and 1992, the participation in the transatlantic Columbus Regatta. A training voyage began on 19 January 2010 led to Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, Peru, Ecuador, Mexico, USA, Japan, South Korea, China, Macau, Timor, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, India and Egypt by the end of the year around the world.
The ship is occasionally, especially outside of Portugal, called Sagres II. However, it is the third ship of the Portuguese Navy with this name: the first was a 1858 built in England wooden full-rigged ship, which served from 1882 to 1898 as a training ship and was stationed at Porto on the Douro.