Gilbert Islands 1 dollar 2017 The ship Sagres

Gilbert Islands 1 dollar 2017 Sagres I.

Bark Sagresh is the third of the six barks of the Gorkh Fok class, but belongs to the "big" class, like the Eagle, in the past to Horst Wessel. Like that, "Sagres" was built for the German Navy and was originally named Albrecht Leo Schlageter. The ship's keel was laid in June 1937 at the same "Blom and Foss" shipyard in Hamburg, on October 30 it was launched and on February 1, 1938, it was put into operation.

Albrecht Leo Schlagueter, having 298 men on board (crew and cadets), made one long and one short voyage to South America before the Second World War. With the onset of hostilities, the ship was put on the joke and turned into a stationary training base. In 1944, his sailing trips resumed, and on November 14 of the same year, during the transportation of the military contingent, the ship jumped on the Russian mine and received considerable damage to the engine room. The sailboat was towed to Flensburg and then to Kiel, where in 1945 it was captured by the Americans.

With Horst Wessel at its disposal, the US Coast Guard did not need other training ships and in 1948 transferred an extra barque to Brazilian sailors who renamed it Guanabaru. Meanwhile, in the Portuguese fleet in 1924, the training barge "Sagres" was used, named after a small port in southern Portugal, where Prince Henry the Navigator (1394-1460) founded the first navigation school in Europe. The building of the school has not survived until our days. It is known only that she was on the territory of the fortress near the huge "rose of the winds," which still exists.

This very "Sagres" was nothing more than the old German "cape-horn" Rikmer Rikmersom built in Bremershaven in 1896. So it all agreed that in October 1961, the Portuguese bought from their former colony "Guanabaru" and appropriated to the vessel the name "Sagresh".

In order to avoid confusion, the old and new Sagresi are often referred to as "Sagres 1" and "Sagres II", but there was an earlier "Sagresh" built in England in 1858 and used as a Portuguese training ship from 1882 to 1898. Both ship of the twentieth century. It is easy to distinguish on red Lusitanian crosses on sails, which were marked by the ancient Portuguese caravels and caraca of the era of the Great Geographical Discoveries. In the picture two "Sagresha" can be distinguished by the presence of a single mizzen on an earlier and double bisan on a modern ship.

The old "Sagres" was renamed "Santo André" and put on a joke as an auxiliary base at the shipyard Alfate near Lisbon. In 1983 the ship was sold to the German Association, which, having restored it, stores it as a museum exhibit in Hamburg, returning to it the original "Cape Horn" appearance and the name "Rikmer Rikmers".

The current "Sagres" is maintained in perfect condition and participates in sailing races. Throughout its entire service, the ship visited 113 ports in more than 45 countries around the world. Its native waters are the northern and southern parts of the Atlantic Ocean, but the ship made two round-the-world voyages in 1978-1979 and 1983-1984. (during the latter he visited the international sailing festival in Osaka). In 2000, the vessel participated in the celebration of the 500th anniversary of the discovery of Brazil by the Portuguese navigator Pedro Alvarez Cabral (1460-1526), ​​accompanied by the ship "Cisne Branco" and the Uruguayan three-masted schooner "Captain Miranda".

The Gilbert Islands are a group of islands in the western Pacific Ocean, in Micronesia. They were part of the English colony of the Gilbert Islands and Ellis. Currently belong to the State of Kiribati. Include 16 coral atolls. The administrative center of Tarawa.