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Friday, 2 February 2024

German sailing ship (ex-Rickmer Rickmers 1896-1912, Max-1912-1916, Flores 1916-1924, Sagres 1924-1962, Santo André 1962-1983) Rickmer Rickmers 1983-



Hamburg, Germany 15 September 2023

Launched by Rickmers shipyard, Bremerhaven, Germany in August 1896, seized by the Portuguese government at Horta, Azores in 1916, lent to the British governement to be used as transport in 1913, returned after the First World War, became school ship of the Portuguese navy, hulked depot ship 1962-1983, decommisssioned in 1975 and nowadays museum ship. Windjammer, as the Max active in the saltpeter trade in Chile. 

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