Today on our way South from Le Saintes to
Dominica we saw a large sailing barque with green sails. I thought that the flag might have been German so I hailed the North bound square rigger with Green sails - on my second try the skipper (helmsman) came back and I was able to determine that the vessel was German but could not understand the name. As soon as we anchored and were situated in Dominica we used Wiki and - A German ship originally built in 1906 as Reserve Sonderburg. She was operated throughout the North and Baltic Seas until being retired in 1986. Subsequently she was converted into a three masted barque by the German shipyard Motorwerke Bremerhaven and was re-launched in 1988 as Alexander von Humboldt.
Photo taken from Gra'inne, underway
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