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HISTORY
The 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 USSR after World War II and renamed Tovarishch. 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, the ship was acquired by sponsors and sailed
to her original home port of Stralsund, where her original name
of Gorch Fock was restored on November 29, 2003. She is a museum
ship, and extensive repairs were carried out in 2008. She is now
seaworthy again and visited the Port of Belfast from 8 to 12
April, 2009 where the public were allowed to board and view the
vessel.
The Federal German government built a replacement training ship,
the Gorch Fock II (1958), which is still in service.
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