Gorch Fock
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Gorch Fock may refer to:
- Gorch Fock (author)Gorch Fock (author)Gorch Fock [ɡɔʀx fɔk] was the pseudonym of the German author Johann Wilhelm Kinau . Other pseudonyms he used were Jakob Holst and Giorgio Focco....
, pseudonym of Johann Wilhelm Kinau (1880-1916), German author - Gorch Fock (1933)Gorch Fock (1933)The Gorch Fock I is a German three-mast barque, the first of a series built as school ships for the German Reichsmarine in 1933. She was taken as war reparations by the USSR after World War II and renamed Tovarishch...
, the first sailing ship named after him - Gorch Fock (1958)Gorch Fock (1958)The Gorch Fock is a tall ship of the German Navy . She is the second ship of that name and a sister ship of the Gorch Fock built in 1933. Both ships are named in honor of the German writer Johann Kinau who wrote under the pseudonym "Gorch Fock" and died in the battle of Jutland/Skagerrak in 1916...
, that ship's successor