Sagres

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Lisbon

Portugal

Three-masted bark, 81 m

Built in 1937 in Hamburg, Germany, from the same shipyards as the Eagle under the name Schlageter (a Nazi hero...). Taken over by the Americans who ceded her to the Brazil. Now belongs to the portuguese Navy. Named from the city where the prince Henry the Navigator used to meet cartographers and sailors.

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