Tall Ship Gorch Fock - Star of Soviet Cinema
The tall ship Gorch Fock was “a textbook” for the German Navy, it served as a backdrop for the Soviet movies "Scarlet Sails", "Rebellious Orion", "In Search of Captain Grant" and is now a museum. Built in 1932 in Hamburg, this three-masted barque was nicknamed “a dream ship” for its maneuverability and reliability. Until 1940 it was used for training purposes. Training courses for miners were held on its board in Stralsund. It also served as a floating chancellery for sailors. It was an advertisement for the German army: it was assumed that the romance of the sea, which it represented, would attract a lot of young people to the fleet.
The USSR got the tall ship Gorch Fock in consideration of reparations. Renamed "Comrade" the ship featured in Soviet films several times, it made several long journeys, and was transferred to the Maritime College in Kherson, where it remained until near the end of the twentieth century. Renovated on a donation basis, in 2003 the ship was bought from Ukraine and returned to its home port - Stralsund, where it became a museum. Signs in Russian, Soviet maps, forms, journals, photos of Soviet captains were kept on its board next to pictures of German sailors of 1930s. Visitors are offered interactive experience- trying themselves as training ship cadets.
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