| Date of launch | 1896 |
|---|---|
| Place of launch | Bremerhaven |
| Type | 3-masted steel ship |
| GRT | 1980 |
| NRT | - |
| DWT | - |
| Length | 79.0 m (259.3 ft) |
| Beam | 12.3 m (40.4 ft) |
| Draft | 6.0 m (19.7 ft) |
Later names: Max (1912), Flores (1916), Sagres (1918), Santo Andre (1962), Rickmer Rickmers (1983)
Re-riggings: 3m barque (1902)
- 1896
Built of steel by Rickmers-Werft, Bremerhaven, for Rickmers Reismühlen, Rhederei und Schiffbau A.G. She was rigged as a three-masted full-rigged ship carrying royals over double top- and topgallant sails. She was used on the East India rice trade. - 1902
The rigging was damaged in a storm and the ship was re-rigged as a barque. - 1912
Sold to Carl Christian Krabbenhöft, Hamburg, who renamed her the Max and used her mainly on the South American nitrate trade. - 1916
Confiscated by the Portuguese and handed over to the British. Renamed the Flores. - 1918
Handed back to the Portuguese, who subsequently rebuilt her as a schoolship, installed an auxiliary engine, and renamed her the Sagres to use her as a schoolship for the Navy. - 1962
The Sagres was replaced by the Brazilian schoolship Guanabara, that was renamed Sagres. The old Sagres was renamed Santo Andre and used as storage hulk. - 1983
The association ``Windjammer für Hamburg'' bought the ship and restored her into a museum ship in Hamburg under her original name Rickmer Rickmers.
References:
- http://www.rickmer-rickmers.de/ (External link.)
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