Gorch Fock I, Museum ship in Stralsund, Germany
The Gorch Fock I is a three-masted barque measuring 269.3 feet (82.1 meters) in length, constructed in 1933 at the Blohm and Voss shipyard in Hamburg over the course of just one hundred days.
Built as a training vessel for German naval cadets in 1933, the ship was transferred to the Soviet Union as war reparations in 1947 and sailed under the name Tovarishch until its return to Germany in 2003.
The ship honors the memory of German writer and sailor Johann Kinau, who used the pen name Gorch Fock, and represents a tradition of maritime education that trained thousands of young sailors throughout its operational years.
The museum ship is located at An der Fährbrücke in Stralsund harbor and is open from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM between April and October, and from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM from November through March, though it is not wheelchair accessible.
Visitors can practice traditional sailing skills by learning to tie different types of knots at designated stations on the deck, where instructional panels demonstrate various techniques used by sailors aboard historic vessels.
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