Sailing His characteristic of the Cross of Malta

Built in 1937 by Blohm & Voss in Hamburg, Germany, the Sagres II began his life as a German naval vessel known as the Albert Leo Schlageter. Damaged during the Second World War, was seized by the United States and gave in Brazil, where she was 1961, when a ship of training under the name "Guanabara. Occasion of a sale of the Portuguese navy, was the training ship Sagres II, a role that the training of our days. The name is derived from the Cap-Sagres, the site of the maritime world of the first school that Prince Henry the Navigator in the 15th century. Sailing His characteristic of the Cross of Malta, was the emblem on the sails of the boats, Portuguese during the era of big discoveries.