GORCH FOCK

Gorch Fock was a German training sailing ship, launched in 1933. At the time of launching, the ship was 73.6 m long, 12 m wide, and her full displacement was 1,545 tons. Gorch Fock was unarmed. It was a three-masted barge, with an initial sails area of 1797 m2. It had an additional drive in the form of a diesel engine with a capacity of 360 HP. The Gorch Fock was built at the Bohm und Voss shipyard in Hamburg. Immediately after entering service, it served as a training unit in the German Navy. He was self-sunk by the crew on May 1, 1945. However, after the war, it was lifted from the seabed by Russia, renovated and incorporated into the Soviet Navy under the name Towariszcz. After a long renovation, sails replacement and the addition of a more powerful auxiliary engine, it entered service in 1951 with the home port of Odessa. After the collapse of the USSR, it served for a very short time under the flag of Ukraine, until it was finally bought by the "Tall Ship Friends Deutschland" company and since 2003 it has been in the port of Stralsund as a museum ship under the name Gorch Fock.