Atlantis is a three-masted barquentine active as a sailing charter ship often cruising the Mediterranean and Baltic seas in Europe.
The ship was built in 1905–1906 by the German shipyard J.H.N. Wichhorst in Hamburg and was named as Bürgermeister Bartels after the Hamburg Mayor Johann Heinrich Bartels (1761–1850).[1] It was delivered as a lightship with a rotating flashing beacon at height. Originally, Bürgermeister Bartels was 42.5m (139.4feet) long, 7.45m (24.44feet)s wide and had a side height of 3.46m (11.35feet). The lightship measured at, had a steam engine with an output of 200hp.
First the ship was stationed at position "Elbe 3" and in 1919 the ship was repositioned at position "Elbe 2" at 53.9936°N 8.4142°W until 1939, then went info military service as a barrier guard ship and outpost security ship during World War II in the Baltic Sea. After the war in 1945 the ship went back to the "Elbe 2" position and was in service there until 1974 when the ship was decommissioned and laid up in Hamburg after a collision.
In 1979 the ship was sold to Fa. Eckhardt & Co of Hamburg to be used as a firefighter training ship.
Around 1983 when ship was sold to a German shipping company who converted the vessel to a three-masted barquentine which was offered as a charter passenger ship until 1985. They renamed her to Atlantis and started worldwide sailing charter. In 1997 new owners took over and renovated the ship and started cruises in the western Mediterranean Sea in the spring, Baltic Sea in the summer and the Caribbean Sea in the winter time.
In 2006 the current owner took over the ship and started with cruises to the Balearic Islands and Côte d’Azur. The ship is now operated by Tallship Company of Franeker, Netherlands, which also operated and .