Tall Ship Alexander von Humboldt

Alexander von Humboldt is a German sailing ship originally built in 1906 by the German shipyard AG Weser at Bremen as the lightship Reserve Sonderburg. She was operated throughout the North and Baltic Seas until being retired in 1986. Subsequently, she was converted into a three masted barque by the German shipyard Motorwerke Bremerhaven and was re-launched in 1988 as Alexander von Humboldt. In 2011 the ship was taken off sail-training and sent to the Caribbean for the charter business, then she was converted to a hotel.   Her signature look was a full course of green sails.  Siegfried Heinicke reports in 2023 that, during the 2000 Sail in Amsterdam, his group, Grey Goose Shantymen, sang aboard the Humboldt.  In more recent years the group Drunk Sailors sang aboard her.

She was replaced by the Alexander von Humboldt II, also based out of Bremerhaven.