Gorch Fock (1933)
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.
Gorch Fock in Stralsund, 2019 | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| Germany | |
| 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 | |
| Name | Tovarishch |
| Acquired | by salvage, 1947 |
| In service | 1951 |
| Out of service | 1993 |
| Fate | Passed to Ukraine, 1993 |
| Ukraine | |
| Name | Tovarysh |
| Owner | Ministry of Education (Ukraine) |
| Acquired | 1993 |
| Fate | Sold to Germany in 2003 |
| Germany | |
| Name | Gorch Fock |
| Acquired | 2003 |
| 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 | Barque, 1,753 m2 (18,870 sq ft) sail area |
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.
Then 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.
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