Gorch Fock
A 60
1958
- Class: Gorch Fock - 'Type 441' sail training ship of 1958
- Displacement: 1,819 tons
- Dimensions: 293 x 39.4 x 17.2 ft.
- Sail area: 20,480 sq.ft. = 15 knots
- Machinery: 1 Deutz-MWM SBV 6 M 628 diesel; 1 shaft; 1660 bhp = 12 knots
- Complement: 10 officers, 56 enlisted, 140 cadets
- Builder: Blohm + Voss, Hamburg, Germany
- Laid down: 24 Feb 1958
- Launched: 23 Aug 1958
- Commissioned: 17 Dec 1958
- Notes: A three-masted barque built as postwar replacement for several sail training ships of the 1930s: the first Gorch Fock, which became the Russian Tovarisch, the Albert Leo Schlageter which became the Portuguese Sagres, and the Horst Wessel, which is now the USCGC Eagle. Gorch Fock was the pen name for German writer Johann Kinau, a sailor who wrote about the life of deep sea fishermen on the North Sea, and later died when his ship, the German cruiser SMS Wiesbaden, was sunk at the Battle of Jutland.
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