Rickmer Rickmers is a three masted barque permanently moored as a museum ship in Hamburg, near the Cap San Diego steamer, also a museum ship. After almost 90 years of sailing the seven seas, the ship was turned into a museum in 1983. Today, visitors can roam the decks, exploring the crew's and officers' quarters, the galley and even the engine room (this windjammer was powered by wind and, if required, by steam and diesel engines). The hull is 97 meters long, 12.20 meters wide, the depth was 6 meters.
Rickmer Clasen Rickmers, (1807-1886) was a Bremerhaven shipbuilder and Willi Rickmer Rickmers, (1873-1965) led a Soviet-German expedition to the Pamirs in 1928. The ship was built in 1896 by the Rickmers shipyard in Bremerhaven, and was first used on the Hong Kong route carrying rice and bamboo. In 1912 she was bought by Carl Christian Krabbenhöft, renamed Max, and transferred to the Hamburg - Chile route, in the nitrate trade.
In WWI Max was seized illegally by the Government of Portugal (a neutral country), in Horta, (Azores) harbour and loaned to the United Kingdom as a war aid. For the remainder of the war the ship sailed under the Union Jack, as Flores. After the war she was returned to the Portuguese Government, becoming a Portuguese Navy training ship and was once more renamed, as NRP Sagres (the second of that name). Around 1930 two PS 350 Krupp diesel engines were installed as an auxiliary drive.
The last major appearance of the vessel was in 1958, when she won the regatta of training sailing ships off the Norwegian Christian Radich. In the early 1960s Sagres (II) was retired from school ship service, was renamed Santo André and reclassified as depot ship. In 1975 was decommissioned, but in 1983 was purchased in 1983 by an organisation named "Windjammer für Hamburg e.V.", renamed for the last time, back to Rickmer Rickmers, and turned into a floating museum ship.
This postcard is a reproduction of a stamp belonging to the series Ships, designed by Klein & Neumann Per, issued on June 2, 2005 and containig 5 stamps:
• Greif (0.45 + 0.20 EUR)
• Rickmer Rickmers (0.55 + 0.25 EUR)
• Passat (0.55 + 0.25 EUR)
• Grand Duchess Elizabeth (0.55 + 0.25 EUR)
• Deutschland (1.44 + 0.56 EUR)
About the stamp
The stamp, Frequency Hopping - Hedy Lamarr, designed by David Gruber Per, was issued on January 22, 2020. Hedy Lamarr, born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler (1914-2000), was an Austrian-born American film actress and inventor who was posthumously inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.
References
Rickmer Rickmers - Wikipedia
Rickmer Rickmers - Rickmer Rickmers museum official website
Sender: Anna / rehrlanna (postcrossing) AT-480406
Sent from Radstadt (Salzburg / Austria), on 04.03.2020
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