| Date of launch | 1958 |
|---|---|
| Place of launch | Hamburg |
| Type | 3-masted steel barque |
| GRT | - |
| NRT | - |
| DWT | 1816 |
| Length | 88.5 m (290.4 ft) |
| Beam | 11.7 m (38.4 ft) |
| Draft | 5.1 m (16.7 ft) |
- 1958
Built of steel by Blohm & Voss, Hamburg, to be used as a schoolship for the German Navy. She was rigged as a three-masted barque carrying royals over single topgallant sails and double topsails. She was a sister ship to the four vessels that were built for the same purpose in the 1930s: Gorch Fock, Horst Wessel, Albert Leo Schlageter and Mircea.The Gorch Fock still serves her originial purpose.
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 | The Gorch Fock Appears courtesy of Peter Walter Gorch Fock's homepage |
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