Port of Hamburg National and international visitors come to experience the festivities. Tugboats perform "ballets", old galleons and new cruise ships are open for tours, and fireworks explode at night. Tour guides on boat tours in the harbour are called he lüchts (Low German for "he is lying") after an often used call of dock workers when they overheard the stories told to tourists. Port of Hamburg The Port of Hamburg (German: "Hamburger Hafen") is a sea port on the river Elbe in Hamburg, Germany, 110 kilometres from its mouth on the North Sea. It's Germany's largest port and is named the country's
SMS Dresden (1907) was carrying gold coins from their colony at Tsingtau; Delgado speculated that this salvage work was an attempt to retrieve these. In 1965, the ship's compass and several flags were recovered and returned to Germany, where they are held at the German Naval Academy Mürwik in Flensburg-Mürwik. In 2006, Chilean and German divers found and recovered "Dresden"s bell, which is now in Germany. CS Forester's novel "Brown on Resolution", and two subsequent movies, were inspired by the "Dresden"s escape and subsequent destruction. SMS Dresden (1907) SMS "Dresden" ("His Majesty's Ship "Dresden"") was a German light cruiser built for the "Kaiserliche