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Adler von Lübeck by Olaf Rahardt, painted in 2004.
Career (Lübeck)Coat of arms of the city of Lübeck
Name:Adler von Lübeck
Builder:Wallhalbinsel in Lübeck
Laid down:1565
Launched:March 1566
Commissioned:1567
Fate:disassembled in 1588
General characteristics
Displacement:2-3,000 tons
Length:78. Lübeck ( is the second largest City in Schleswig-Holstein, in Northern Germany, and one of the major 30 m (overall)
Beam:14. The metre or meter is a unit of Length. It is the basic unit of Length in the Metric system and in the International 50 m
Draught:5. 30 m
Propulsion:Sails— 1,793. 53 m²
Complement:1,000: 350 crew & 650 marines
Armament:

138 cannon Bronze guns:

  • 8 × 48 pounders
  • 6 × 24 pounders
  • 26 × 10 pounders
  • 4 × 5 pounders
  • 8 × 3 pounders

Iron guns:

  • 10 × 6 pounders
  • 40 × 1½ pounders
  • 36 × varying calibre
Notes:Height from waterline to top of mainmast: 62. 51 m

The Adler von Lübeck (German for Eagle of Lübeck), also called Der Große Adler or Lübscher Adler, was a 16th century warship of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck, Germany. The German language (de ''Deutsch'') is a West Germanic language and one of the world's major languages. The Hanseatic League (also known as the Hansa) was an alliance of trading cities and their Guilds that established and maintained trade Lübeck ( is the second largest City in Schleswig-Holstein, in Northern Germany, and one of the major Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. The Adler was at its time the largest ship in the world, being 78. 30 m long overall and displacing 2-3,000 tons.

The war galleon was built by Lübeck during the Northern Seven Years' War to escort her convoy of merchant ships in the Baltic and North Sea. A galleon was a large multi-decked Sailing ship used primarily by the nations of Europe from the 16th to 18th centuries The Northern Seven Years' War (also known as the Nordic Seven Years' War, the First Northern War or the Seven Years War in Scandinavia) was the war The Baltic Sea is a Brackish inland sea located in Northern Europe, from 53°N to 66°N Latitude and from 20°E to 26°E Longitude. The North Sea is a marginal, Epeiric sea of the Atlantic Ocean on the European Continental shelf. However, the Adler was never put into action, since Lübeck had already entered peace negotiations with Sweden at the time of the ship's completion. After the Treaty of Stettin (1570), the Große Adler was converted into a freighter for trade with the Iberian peninsula. The Treaty of Stettin ( Szczecin) brought the Northern Seven Years' War to an end on December 13 1570. The Iberian Peninsula, or Iberia, is located in the extreme southwest of Europe, and includes modern day Spain, Portugal, Andorra The ship was dismantled in 1588 after twenty years of service.

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Dimensions

The Lübeck chronicler Peter van der Horst - relying on the building contract of the ship - gave the following dimensions of the Adler von Lübeck:[1]

The gun arrangements of the ship have been preserved in the artillery manual of the artillery master Hans Frese. [2]

References

  1. ^ Van der Horst(e), Peter (1676): "Beschreibung von der Kunst der Schiffahrt – Zum andernmahl auffgeleget und mit einem Anhang vermehret, worin beschrieben wird der Anfang und Fortgang der Schiffahrt", 2nd. ed., Schmalhertzens Erven, Lübeck (PDF)
  2. ^ Frese, Hans (16th c. ): "Artilleriebuch der Adler von Lübeck", Archive of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck

Further reading

In chronological order

Articles & monographs

Modern model ships

Gallery

Model ship #1 in the Ratskeller at Lübeck

Model ship #2 in the Ratskeller at Lübeck

Model ship #2 in the Ratskeller at Lübeck

Model ship in the Deutsches Museum at München

Painting in the Schiffergesellschaft at Lübeck

Pintle and gudgeon rudder as used by the Adler

See also

External links

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