The Sea Cloud was a luxurious private yacht and warship. It accommodated millionaires, diplomats and soldiers. Todays cruise ship was launched at the Germania shipyard in Kiel on April 25, 1931. by Janine Kuehl The world has never seen anything like it:In 1931, a sailing ship entered the worlds oc
The four-masted barque Sedov was launched in Kiel in 1921 as Magdalene Vinnen II. In 1937 she narrowly escaped sinking in a hurricane. Today the Sedov is one of the largest sailing ships in the world. With a length of 117.5 meters, the Sedov only has to admit defeat to a few other windjammers that
The museum ship Rickmer Rickmers at the Hamburg Landungsbrücken is a landmark of the city. Since 2006, the former cargo ship has been the official ship post office of Deutsche Post. A rather unusual figurehead adorns the bow of the Rickmer Rickmers:Where lions, mermaids or knights brave the splashi
A legend of steel is back home:built in Hamburg in 1911, the Peking sailed the seas as a cargo ship until 1932. From 1974 she was a museum ship in New York. The Peking has been back in her home port since 2020. This is maritime history that is returning to the heart of the Port of Hamburg, said Ham
The museum ship Kaiser Wilhelm is one of the oldest still operational paddle steamers in Germany. The passenger ship sailed on the Weser for 70 years. Today it sails across the Elbe near Lauenburg. When he is traveling on the Elbe, the cloud of smoke can be seen from afar and the volunteer crew on
In June 1926, the four-masted barque Padua was launched in Bremerhaven - as the last freight sailing ship in the world to be built entirely without an engine. After the war, the Russians renamed the ship Kruzenshtern. Like her well-known sister ships Pamir and Passat, the Padua is one of the legend
She was the pride of the GDR and its only ocean-going sailing ship:the steel schooner brig Wilhelm Pieck. Today the sail training ship is called Greif after its home port in Greifswald-Wieck. The two-master was built in 1951 as a present for the 75th birthday of the then GDR President Wilhelm Pieck
The Eye of the Wind has been at home on the seven seas for more than a century. The long history of the sailing ship begins in 1911 in Brake on the Lower Weser. There the two-master is launched as the topsail schooner Friedrich. Until 1923, the Friedrich sailed the Baltic and North Seas as a cargo
The Elbe, built in 1911, is the last roadworthy, steam-powered river icebreaker in Germany. Today, as a historic excursion boat, it makes history come alive. In the past, the Elbe crushed the ice floes during harsh winters, but today it only travels in the warmer months of the year. The old steamsh
With its elegant white and red body, the Cap San Diego is more reminiscent of a huge yacht. The express freighter was launched in Finkenwerder 60 years ago. It has been a museum ship in Hamburg since the late 1980s and has shaped the panorama. The Cap San Diego is a true Hamburger:The general cargo
The Alexander von Humboldt II is one of the youngest tall ships from Germany. Like the Gorch Fock of the German Navy, the Alex II is also a training ship - but usually for civilian purposes. On September 24, 2011, the successor to the legendary Alexander von Humboldt I was christened Alexander von
With its striking green sails and green hull, the Alexander von Humboldt was the star on the seven seas and in the TV commercials of a Bremen beer producer for years. But the ship did not always cross the seas as a windjammer. It wasnt originally green either, but fiery red. Because the three-maste
As the white swan of the Baltic Sea, the Gorch Fock - the sail training ship of the German Navy - traveled the seven seas from 1959. The renovation of the three-masted barque became a debacle. Now the traditional sailing ship is back in its home port of Kiel. On August 23, 1958, tens of thousands o
The adventurous story of the Gorch Fock (I) The Gorch Fock predecessor Gorch Fock (I) was built in Hamburg in 1933, later sunk and raised again. Today she is a museum ship in the port of Stralsund. Anyone who hears the ship name Gorch Fock in Germany usually thinks of the well-known training ship
The steamer, built in 1876, has changed its name several times. Since 1994, the St. Georg has been sailing regularly on her home territory:the Hamburg Alster. The St. Georg is the only classic Alster steamer that actually deserves this name because of its engine, which is still purely steam-powered
With its slightly curved hull and the gold-decorated bow, the Scharhörn is a particularly elegant ship. The steamer built in 1908 is one of the gems among Hamburgs museum ships. The ship doesnt have such a stylish appearance without reason:the Scharhörn was originally intended primarily as a so-cal
The Flying-P-Liner, built in 1911, was one of the fastest cargo ships in the world. Today the four-masted barque Passat is in Travemünde - as a witness of a bygone era. She is a maritime legend - although she has not sailed the seas for more than half a century:the Passat. Alongside the Peking, whi
With a total length of almost 110 meters and around 2,800 square meters of sail area, the Mir is one of the largest sailing ships in the world. The training ship, launched in 1987, is also one of the worlds fastest tall ships. The Mir is the third of six modern sailing ships built by the Lenin Ship
After decades as a training ship, the Christian Radich has been in charter service since 1999. Still participates in tall ship meetings and regattas. The shipowner and cavalry officer Christian Radich did not live to see his dream come true:Nine years before his death, the Norwegian commissioned th
When it was launched in 1909, the motorized freighter was a world first as the San Antonio. The three-master came to Elsfleht in 1982 as Ariadne. On June 12, the school and cruise ship is christened Grand Duchess Elisabeth. by Irene Altenmüller On March 14, 1982, there was a folk festival atmosphe
It was January 8, 1947 when David Bowie came to Earth and specifically to Brixton, having the same birthday as Elvis Presley. On the same day in 2016, his 25th and final album, the masterpiece Blackstar, was released, just two 24 hours before his world-shaking death on January 10. Blackstar was the
Ancient surgeons had many achievements. They have successfully performed trepanation of the skulls. They took off the cataracts. They were even able to stop bleeding by ligating blood vessels. But they did not touch their hearts. Who dared to do it first? As Thomas Morris emphasizes in the book
Japan lagged far behind other countries in terms of cryptography at the beginning of the interwar period. Its land army in particular was extremely lagging behind in this area. The situation, uninteresting for the Japanese, was only changed in the 1920s thanks to the help of our cryptologists, who s
In the years 1912-1914, the Russians followed the fate of the polar expeditions led by their countrymen with bated breath. One of the expeditions led by G.J. At the end of 1913, Siedowa disappeared somewhere near the Franz Josef Land. But lets start at the beginning. Georgy J. Sedov announced th