Torch Fock 1 museum Ship

The “Gorch Fock 1” was built by Blohm+Voss in Hamburg in 1933 on behalf of the Reichsmarine in just 100 days and was used as a training ship until 1939. During the Second World War she served as a residential ship at various locations, until it became apparent the war was coming to an end and the ship was stripped and decommissioned. On the afternoon of April 30, 1945, the crew sank the “Gorch Fock 1” in the Strelasund to avoid abandoning it to the approaching Red Army. 

In 1947 the Soviets raised the ship on the fourth attempt and repaired it in Rostock and Wismar. It then sailed the world’s oceans under the name “Towarischtsch” (Comrade) as a training ship, before it came under the Ukrainian flag in 1992, and was brought to Wilhelmshaven in 1999 – becoming one of the major attractions of the “EXPO 2000 at sea”. In 2003 the ship was transferred to Stralsund, where it was extensively restored.

Since then, the “Gorch Fock 1” has been lying as a museum ship in the port of Stralsund.