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&sq=Envato&lang=en&file=File:Gorch_Fock_(ship,_1933),_Stralsund,_2019_(01).jpg) Gorch Fock in Stralsund, 2019
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| History | |
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  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 |
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.
After World War II she was taken as war reparations by the Soviet Union and renamed Tovarishch. In the 1990s she spent a short period under the Ukrainian flag and a prolonged stay in British ports due to lack of funds for necessary repairs.
After being acquired by sponsors, she sailed to her original home port of Stralsund where her original name of Gorch Fock was restored on 29 November 2003. She now serves as a museum ship, and extensive repairs were carried out in 2008.
In 1958 the Federal German government built a replacement training ship which is still in service, also named Gorch Fock.