10148 Louisiana Star

by Colin Hunt

Title

10148 Louisiana Star

Artist

Colin Hunt

Medium

Photograph - Photoart

Description

Louisiana Star steaming along the river Elbe in Hamburg passing the sail ship Rickmer Rickmer's. In the background is St. Michael's Church.

The Louisiana Star is a passenger boat of Rainer Abicht Elbreederei GmbH in Hamburg. It is styled to resemble an American paddle steamer; however, it's driven by a diesel engine and using propellers, the paddle wheel being ornamental.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Rickmer Rickmers is a sailing ship (three masted barque) permanently moored as a museum ship in Hamburg, near the Cap San Diego.

Rickmer Clasen Rickmers, (1807-1886) was a Bremerhaven shipbuilder and Willi Rickmer Rickmers, (1873-1965) led a Soviet-German expedition to the Pamirs in 1928.

Rickmer Rickmers was built in 1896 by the Rickmers shipyard in Bremerhaven, and was first used on the Hong Kong route carrying rice and bamboo. In 1912 she was bought by Carl Christian Krabbenhoft, renamed Max, and transferred to the Hamburg - Chile route.

In World War I Max was captured by the Government of Portugal, in Horta (Azores) harbour and loaned to the United Kingdom as a war aid. For the remainder of the war the ship sailed under the Union Jack, as Flores. After World War I she was returned to the Portuguese Government, becoming a Portuguese Navy training ship and was once more renamed, as NRP Sagres (the second of that name). In 1958, she won the Tall Ships' Race.

In the early 1960s Sagres (II) was retired from school ship service when the Portuguese Navy purchased, from Brazil, the school ship Guanabara (originally launched in Germany in 1937 as Albert Leo Schlageter). In 1962, the former Guanabara was commissioned as school ship with the name Sagres (III). At the same time Sagres (II) was renamed Santo Andre and reclassified as depot ship. The NRP Santo Andre remained moored at the Lisbon Naval Base, being decommissioned in 1975.

She was purchased in 1983 by an organisation named "Windjammer fuer Hamburg e.V.", renamed for the last time, back to Rickmer Rickmers, and turned into a floating museum ship.

St. Michael's Church is one of Hamburg's five Lutheran main churches (Hauptkirchen) and the most famous church in the city. St. Michaelis is a landmark of the city and it is considered to be one of the finest Hanseatic Protestant baroque churches. The church was purposely built Protestant unlike many other Hamburg churches which were originally built by Roman Catholics and were converted to Protestantism during the Reformation. It is dedicated to the Archangel Michael. A large bronze statue, standing above the portal of the church shows the archangel conquering the devil.

The 132-meter high Baroque spire totally covered with copper is a prominent feature of Hamburg's skyline and has always been a landfall mark for ships sailing up the river Elbe.




This artwork has been featured withIn the following groups:

1 A Day Waiting Room Art (4th July 2015)

ABC Group - N is For Nautical (8th August 2015)

Arts Fantastic World (18th January 2017)

Enhanced Original Photography (28th January 2017)

Pictures for Present (7th February 2017)

Contemporary (14th February 2017)

No Place Like Home (15th February 2017)


Many thanks to the buyer at this years Victorian Christmas Market, that brought this artwork as a Tote Bag made by FAA.

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October 8th, 2013

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