Rickmer Rickmers
As a museum ship in Hamburg port
- Max
- Flores
- Sagres
- Santo André
The Rickmers Rickmers is a three-masted sailing ship steely freight, which is today as a museum and memorial ship in the port of Hamburg in the St. Pauli landing bridges.
History
At the shipyard in Bremerhaven the shipping company Rickmers Rickmers Clasen Rickmers Rickmers which ran as a full-rigged ship in August 1896 by the stack. It was named after the grandson of shipowner Rickmers Rickmers (1893-1974), named. The first trip took the ship to Hong Kong, where it invited rice and bamboo, and brought to Germany. Led the ship and the 21- member crew initially by Captain Hermann Hinrich Ahlers. It took a total of twelve round trips, mostly on the United States or the Far East. In a hurricane in the Indian Ocean, the ship lost its mizzen 1904 and was by the crew still in the port of Cape Town will be saved. There was umgetakelt for cost reasons to Bark.
The Hamburg shipping company Carl Christian Krabbenhöft acquired the ship in 1912 and christened it over to Max. It was used the next two years for transporting coal from Wales to Chile and for the Salpetertransport from Chile to Europe. The ship was in 1914, after the outbreak of the First World War, before the neutral Azores in Horta at anchor.
On 23 February 1916, ship from Portugal was confiscated. Under the name Flores then transported war materials for the UK.
After a renovation, the ship served from 1924 under the name Sagres Portuguese Navy as a sail training ship. In this use, it was 1930, two diesel auxiliary engines. In 1958 she won the Tall Ships ' Races regatta. The time as a sail training ship ended in 1962 with the commissioning of the current Sagres. After that, it was under the name of Santo André as a depot ship in the naval port Alfeite in Lisbon.
Museum ship and Foundation
In 1974, the chairman of the Hamburg Harbour Club Fiete Schmidt the club Windjammer for Hamburg with the aim " to keep Hamburg's past as a merchant service and shipping town in living memory. " The club was founded in 1978 attention to the former Rickmers Rickmers and exchanged it in 1983 in dilapidated state against the yacht Anne Linde (now Polar). After several years of restoration, it has since served under her first name as a museum ship at Hamburg's jetties.
The operator, the Foundation Rickmers Rickmers gives, almost every year the award honorary captain for special merits in their view worthy recipients. So far, 16 people or organizations have been awarded as Honorary Captain: Herbert von Nitzsch, Kyril Tulin, Arved Fuchs, Hans -Joachim, Hans -Otto Schumann, Heiner Sumfleth, Peter Tamm, Eberhard Möbius, Enrique Alfonso da Silva Horta, Henry P. Mühlhan, Heinrich Martin Gehrkens, Nicholas W. Schües, the German society for Maritime Search and Rescue, Helge Adolphsen, Norbert Schmelzle, Uwe Seeler and most recently in 2010 Wilhelm Klüver.
The captain's cabin
Work of the Navigator
The galley of the Rickmers Rickmers
The mainmast
1930, two Krupp diesel engines were fitted with 350 hp