Großherzogin Elisabeth
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- See also Duchesse Anne
The Großherzogin Elisabeth (now named Duchesse Anne) is the last remaining full-rigged French
French people
The French are a nation that share a common French culture and speak the French language as a mother tongue. Historically, the French population are descended from peoples of Celtic, Latin and Germanic origin, and are today a mixture of several ethnic groups...
ship. It was built in 1901 with a steel hull by the yard of Johann C. Tecklenborg of BremerhavenGeestemünde (Bremen
Bremen
The City Municipality of Bremen is a Hanseatic city in northwestern Germany. A commercial and industrial city with a major port on the river Weser, Bremen is part of the Bremen-Oldenburg metropolitan area . Bremen is the second most populous city in North Germany and tenth in Germany.Bremen is...
) according to plans drawn by the Georg W. Claussen.
As the Duchesse Anne, the ship has been a classified Monument
Monument
A monument is a type of structure either explicitly created to commemorate a person or important event or which has become important to a social group as a part of their remembrance of historic times or cultural heritage, or simply as an example of historic architecture...
since 5 November 1982.