GORCH FOCK (II)

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After World War II Germany lost all her school ships to war reparations.
1957 The German Bundesmarine decided to build a new training vessel after the plans of the original GORCH FOCK built in 1933 which was handed over to the Soviet Union as war reparation.
She was ordered by the yard of Blohm & Voss in Hamburg.
23 August 1958 launched as the GORCH FOCK (A60) named after the German story and play writer Johann Wilhelm Kinau (1880 – 1916) who wrote under the pseudonym Gorch Fock
Displacement 1.760 tons, dim. 89.32 x 12.00 x 7.30m., length bpp. 70.20m, draught 5.25m.
Auxiliary engine one MAN diesel of 800 hp., speed under engine around 10 knots.
Bark rigged, sail area 1.952 square meter, later increased to 2.037 square meter.
Accommodation for 269 persons included a crew of 69 men.
17 December 1958 commissioned. Homeport Kiel, Germany. Owned and managed by the German Navy.

Used by the Deutsche Bundesmarine as a training vessel, mostly three training voyages are made every year, the shortest in the North Sea and Baltic.
During the winter months she is laid up.
Used regular by Tall Ship sail regattas.
1987 -1988 Sailed around the world with calls in five continents, the voyage took 336 days.
1991 Got a new auxiliary engine a Deutz MMM diesel BV6M628, 1.660 hp.
Till now more as 11.000 cadets have been trained, and the last 50 year at least six sailors have died during accidents on board, mostly falling overboard or out of the rigging.
2009 Still in service by the German Navy.

Anguila 1985 $2.50 sg 695.
Germany 1992 60p sg 2444, scott 1738. 2008 55Euro sg?.
Grenada 1996 $1 sg 3138, scott 2560a.
North Korea 1987 20ch sgMS2661.
Paraguay 1976 15g sg? , scott 1691. 1980 10g sg?, scott 1973. 1986 25g sg? , scott 2180.
Yemen 1983 200F sg MS307.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorch_Fock_(1958) http://www.shipsonstamps.org/topics/html/gorchfock.htm Great Sailing Ships of the World by Otmar Schäuffelen.

[aukepalmhof]

Why the year 1916 is on the stamp, she clearly depict the GORCH FOCK II.
Grenada 1996 $1 sg 3138, scott 2560A

North Korea 1983 40ch sgN2334, scott? (the cargo vessel is the MANG YOUNG BONG)
S Tome et Principe 2011 35000 Db sg?, scott?
Liberia 2022 $165 sg?, Scott?

[aukepalmhof]

Yemen 1983 200f sgMS307.
North Korea 1984 80cg sgMSN2406

[Arturo]

Gorch Foch (II)

Anguilla, 1985

[Arturo]

Gorch Foch (II)

Paraguay 1980, S.G.?, Scott: 1973.