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A three-masted sailing ship of 1896, the Rickmer Rickmers is one of Hamburg's most photographed landmarks, her green hull and tall rigging moored permanently at the St. Pauli landing stages as a floating museum of the great age of sail. She was built at the Rickmers shipyard in Bremerhaven and named after the founder's grandson, launched as a sailing cargo vessel that carried rice and bamboo from Asia and saltpetre and other goods around Cape Horn from South America, trading under sail in the dy...