NRP Sagres

Striking appearance

With her square sails, with the Christ's Cross, she is one of the most beautiful tall ships in the world and already recognizable from a distance. She was launched in 1937 in Hamburg, at the yard of Blohm & Voss, under the name Albert Leo Schlageter. She is a sister ship of the Gorch Fock (ex-Tovarich), which is now a museum ship in Stralsund, Germany; the Eagle, of United States Coast Guard (firstly named Horst Wessel); the Mircea of Romanian Navy, and the Gorch Fock II, of German Navy. After the Second World War, the ship was confiscated by the United States. Sold to Brazil in 1948 and used as a sail training ship, under the name Guanabara, by Brazilian Navy until 1960. In that year she was taken out of service. 

At the same time, Portugal was looking for a replacement for their old Sagres, which is now a museum ship (Rickmer Rickmers), in Hamburg, and bought the Guanabara, in 1961. Commissioned in 1962, renamed it Sagres, with which she became the third ship with that name in Portuguese Navy. Since that time, she is used as a training ship and is regularly seen at Sail Manifestations in the world. She also participated several times in STI Races. In 2009 she won the Boston Teapot Trophy, an important prize in the STI events, and has already completed 3 circumnavigations, in 1978/79, 1983/4 and 2010. NRP Sagres also has visited 62 countries and over 250 ports and anchors, in the last 63 years at the service of Portugal