German 5-mast barque R.C. Rickmers 1906-1917

Maritime Museum Hamburg, Germany

Rickmers Rice Mill, Freight and Shipbuilding Company (Rickmers Reismühlen Rhederei and Schiffbau A.G) or Rickmers A.G., Bremerhaven, Germany in 1906, operated by the Rickmers Line, siezed in August 1914, renamed Neath and torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-66 off the Irish coast on 27 March 1917.