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SAGRES (A-520) class

Country of Origin: Portugal


 1 SAGRES-class SAIL TRAINING SHIP (AXS) (ex-German HORST WESSEL class)

 Name        Pendant   Launched         Commissioned    Status

 SAGRES      A-520     Oct. 30, 1937    Feb. 1, 1938    Active
   (ex-Brazilian GUANABARA, ex-German ALBERT LEO SCHLAGTER)

The SAGRES was built for the German navy in the late 1930s. She was acquired by the U.S. Navy as war reparations in 1945. The ship was sold to Brazil in 1948 and then to Portugal on Feb. 2, 1962, being commissioned into...

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