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The "Sagres" is the third ship in the Portuguese Navy that bears that name.

Ship's characteristics

Type:

Three masted barque

1937 - The Portuguese Navy training ship "Sagres", a three masted barque was built at the Blohm & Voss shipyard in Hamburg, Germany, under the name "Albert Leo Schlageter". Originally a training vessel for the "Kriegsmarine". Sistership to "Gorch Fock", "Horst Wessel" and "Mircea". A fourth sister, the "Herbert Norkus", was never completed.
1944 - Back to service after being used as a stationary office after the outbreak of WWII. That year, on 14 november is hitted by a Soviet mine off the coast of Sassnitz.
1948 - Sold to Brazil by the United States of America. Renamed "Guanabara".
1961 - Bought by Portuguese Navy to replace the old Sagres (I), which returned to Hamburg recovering it's original name "Rickmer Rickmers" as a floating museum.

Hull:

Steel

Homeport:

Lisbon

Designer:

Shipyard:

Blohm & Voss (Hamburg), Germany

Crew:

140 persons

Height:

42 m (* ft)

Sparred Lenght:

89 m (295 ft)

Length waterline:

* m

Beam:

12 m (40 ft)

Draft:

5.2 m (17 ft)

Displacement:

1,755 tons

Sail Area:

2,000 m² (31,000 sq ft) 22 sails

Engines:

2 x MTU 12V 183 TE92 750bhp (diesel)

Maximun speed:

17 kt under sails, 10,5 knots under engines