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

• 1937 – The Portuguese Navy training ship “Sagres”, a three masted barque was built at the Blohm & Voss shipyard 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.

  in

• 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.

Ship’s characteristics

Type: Three masted barque
Hull: Steel
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