Germany 1933 Deutsche Reichsmarine Sailing Ship Navy Segelschulschiff Gorch Fock I

003 Germany 1933 Deutsche Reichsmarine Segelschulschiff Gorch Fock I Sailing Ship Navy German History Archive Gorch Fock I is a German threemast 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 German school ship Niobe, a threemasted 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 vess