Adler von Lübeck

Adler von Lübeck by Olaf Rahardt, painted in 2004.
History
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:	78.30 m (256.9 ft) (overall)
Beam:	14.50 m (47.6 ft)
Draught:	5.30 m (17.4 ft)
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 × 1 1⁄2 pounders 36 × varying calibre
Notes:	Height from waterline to top of mainmast: 62.51 m

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. Adler von Lübeck was one of the largest ships in the world at her time, 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. However, Adler von Lübeck 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), Große Adler was converted into a freighter for trade with the Iberian peninsula. The ship was dismantled in 1588 after twenty years of service.

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

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

In chronological order

Articles & monographs

Modern model ships

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