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The Anny von Hamburg entry from the Flensburg museum website translated into English, on their website they have the same info doubled, I've omitted it. The history is not updated to recent developments as the update is from around 2018:

Ship's name: ANNY von HAMBURG

Former names: Anny, Ringö, Kurt Both, Hanna, Anny

Nationality: D

Home port: Hamburg

Type: Ex. cargo sailing ship

Rig: Three masted schooner

Year built: 1914

Constructed by: Conrad Lühring

Building location: Hammelwarden

Length (London) 33 m

Length (total measurement) m

Length overall: 38 m

Beam: 7 m

Draft: 3 m

Sail area: 520 m²

Engine: Sails

About the ship

Built in 1914 on the Lower Weser as a cargo sailing ship, maiden voyage to St. Petersburg, where the ship was confiscated after the outbreak of World War I.

1925-57: Sailed from Hamburg under various names with cargo across the North and Baltic Seas, later sold to Scandinavia.

Owned in 1929 by Captain W. Richter, ship name Hanna.

Owned in 1936 by Captain M. Both, ship name Kurt Both, transporting cement from Bremen to Heligoland for the construction of a naval base.

Sold to Scandinavia, the forward wooden masts were replaced with steel ones. In 1950, the hull was extended and the rigging was removed.

Purchased by a Swedish company in 1957, renamed Ringö, then owned by P. Gronquist of Finland.

Returned to Hamburg in 1981, faithfully restored, boasts the highest Germanischer Lloyd class and plenty of comfort for guests.

Source: VG

Since 1987, under the flag of Antigua as a cruise ship for Aegean Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Canary Islands, and Caribbean in winter, and also a sail training ship based in Kiel in summer.

Participation in sailing events such as Kiel Week and Hanse Sail Rostock.

Completely overhauled at a German shipyard in Wilhelmshaven from 1997 to 1998.

The company Thien & Heyenga operated the ship until 2004; its brokerage activities were supported by the Friends of the Three-Masted Schooner Anny von Hamburg e.V. association.

Owned and operated by the Hanse-Koggewerft association since spring 2004, registered in Hamburg.

Confiscated on her maiden voyage in St. Petersburg, returned as a hulk in 1925. Extended in 1950. Sand freighter in Finland until 1979. Shortened in 1981 and externally restored to its original condition; charter ship.

Stages of an eventful life: After approval by the USSR, ANNY was converted into the motor sailer HANNA in Harburg (Fig. 1: 1925). Fig. 2: As KURT BOTH in 1936 off Heligoland. Fig. 3: After conversion to a motor ship and sale to Sweden, she was renamed RINGÖ (photo circa 1960). Sold back to Germany in 1980, the hull was completely gutted in Glückstadt and shortened to its original dimensions (Fig. 4: 1981). Since 1983, the schooner has sailed again as ANNY (Fig. 5: 1983).

(From: Register of German Sailing Ships J. Kaiser, p. 38).

Eight 3-meter schooners of the same type were built by Lühring between 1911 and 18 (General Plan Fig. 3). Three of them still exist: ANNY, LANDKIRCHEN (above), and the former ELBE (below). Fig. 1: LANDKIRCHEN laid up in Geversdorf in 1977 – a coastal ship without a future. Fig. 2: As the cruise ship GODEWIND in the Caribbean in 1982: High superstructure and an unusual sail layout...

(From: Register of German Sailing Ships J. Kaiser, p. 39)

From 1996/7 to 2000, the ship belonged to a Mr. Deistler. She was offered for sale by yacht brokers Arne Schmidt and Ulf Stetter at the time and was moored in the inland harbor in Glückstadt. I moored her several times there with the owner.

Info: November 28, 2013 3:51 PM Yacht broker Bernd Duhnke

The History
1914-14 ANNY, Brake
1914-25 # St. Petersburg/Leningrad
1924-36 HANNA, Hamburg
1936-57 KURT BOTH, Hamburg
1957-63 RINGÖ, Edshultshall/s
1963-79 # Borga/Fi
1979-80 # Karlskrona/S
1981 back to Hamburg

Since 1987, sailing under the Antigua flag
1997-98, completely overhauled in Wilhelmshaven until 2004 ANNY of HAMBURG, operated by Thien & Heyenga since 2004, owned by the Hanseatic League Koggewerft Association, reg. Hamburg

Built in 1914 on the Lower Weser River as a cargo sailing ship, maiden voyage to St. Petersburg, where the ship was confiscated after the outbreak of World War I.

1925-57, sailing from Hamburg under various names with
cargo across the North and Baltic Seas, later sold to Scandinavia.

Owned in 1929 by Captain W. Richter, ship name Hanna.

Owned in 1936 by Captain M. Both, ship name Kurt Both, transporting cement from Bremen to Heligoland for the construction of a naval base.

Sold to Scandinavia, the forward wooden masts were replaced with a steel mast. In 1950, the hull was extended and the rigging was removed.

Purchased by a Swedish company in 1957, renamed Ringö, then owned by P. Gronquist from Finland.

Returned to Hamburg in 1981, faithfully restored, features the highest Germanischer Lloyd class and plenty of comfort. Guests
Source: VG

Since 1987, sailing under the flag of Antigua as a cruise ship for the Aegean Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Canary Islands, and Caribbean in winter, and also as a sail training ship based in Kiel in summer.

Participation in sailing events such as Kiel Week and Hanse Sail Rostock.

Completely overhauled at a German shipyard in Wilhelmshaven from 1997 to 1998

The company Thien & Heyenga operated the ship until 2004; its brokerage activities were supported by the Friends of the Three-Masted Schooner Anny von Hamburg e.V. association.

Owned and operated by the Hanse-Koggewerft association since spring 2004, registered in Hamburg

Kiel Canal 24 June 2007

Credit: Wolfgang Bode (shipspotting)

Literature:
Detailed history in Herbert Karting, History of the Lühring Shipyard, Vol. II, From Sail to Motor, 1988
and H. Karting, German Schooners, Vol. V, p. 93 ff, 2005