Gorch Fock II is a sailboat-school of the German navy (1000 Deutsche Marine). It is the second ship to bear this name and is a ship-twin of the Gorch Fock I builds in 1933, become Russian Tovarishch after the Second World War.
Both ships were so appointed in honor of the German writer Johann Kinau who wrote under the pen name " Gorch Fock " and who died during the battle of Jutland in 1916.
Gorch Fock II, three-master boat with shell of steel, was built in 1958 in the construction sites(1000works) of Blohm and Voss of Hamburg, to replace Pamir which made wreck in 1957.
Its port of registry is Kiel and it is up to the naval Academy (1000Regional education authority) of Mürwik.
