Gorch Fock (1933)
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Gorch Fock in Stralsund, 2013
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  Germany
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| Name: | Gorch Fock |
| Namesake: | Gorch Fock |
| Builder: | Blohm & Voss, Hamburg |
| Laid down: | 2 December 1932 |
| Launched: | 3 May 1933 |
| Commissioned: | 26 June 1933 |
| Fate: | Scuttled, 1 May 1945 |
 Soviet Union
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| Name: | Tovarishch |
| Acquired: | by salvage, 1947 |
| In service: | 1951 |
| Out of service: | 1993 |
| Fate: | Returned to Germany, 1999 |
 Germany
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| Name: | Gorch Fock |
| Acquired: | 1999 |
| Status: | Museum ship |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | none |
| Type: | Barque |
| Displacement: | 1,510 long tons (1,534 t) full load |
| Length: | 82.1 m (269 ft) |
| Beam: | 12 m (39 ft) |
| Height: | 41.3 m (135 ft) at main mast |
| Draught: | 5.2 m (17 ft) |
| Propulsion: | 550 hp (410 kW) auxiliary engine |
| Sail plan: | Full-rigged ship, 1,753 m2 (18,870 sq ft) sail area |
Gorch Fock I (ex Tovarishch, ex Gorch Fock) is a German three-mast barque, the first of a series built as school ships for the German Reichsmarine in 1933. She was taken as war reparations by the Soviet Union after World War II and renamed Tovarishch. The ship was acquired by sponsors, after a short period under the Ukrainian flag in the 1990s and a prolonged stay in British ports due to lack of funds for necessary repairs, and she sailed to her original home port of Stralsund where her original name of Gorch Fock was restored on 29 November 2003. She is a museum ship, and extensive repairs were carried out in 2008.
The Federal German government built a replacement training ship Gorch Fock (1958) which is still in service.
The German school ship Niobe, a three-masted barque, capsized on 26 July 1932 in the Baltic Sea near Fehmarn due to a sudden squall, killing 69. The loss prompted the German Navy to order a new training vessel built. The contract went to the shipyard of Blohm & Voss in Hamburg, where construction began on 2 December 1932. She was completed in only 100 days. On 3 May 1933 the ship was launched and named Gorch Fock in honor of German writer Johann Kinau who wrote under the pseudonym "Gorch Fock". Kinau had died in the 1916 Battle of Jutland aboard the cruiser SMS Wiesbaden.
Commissioned by the German Navy on 26 June 1933, Gorch Fock is a three-masted barque. She has square sails on the fore and main masts, and is gaff rigged on the mizzen. The steel hull has a sparred length of 82.1 m (269 ft), a width of 12 m (39 ft) and a draught of 5.2 m (17 ft). She has a displacement at full load of 1510 tons. Her main mast stands 41.30 m (135 ft) high above deck and she carries 23 sails totalling 1,753 m2 (18,869 sq ft). She is equipped with an auxiliary engine of 410 kW (550 hp).
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