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Bark «Gorch Fock» crashed into a pier

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The German big sailing boat «Gorch Fock» crashed into a berth while mooring in Wilhelmshaven. The incident occurred after the barque returned from a 90-day training voyage. The incident was filmed on video by an eyewitness.

The three-masted barque «Gorch Fock» was built in 1933 by order of the German Navy at the Hamburg shipyard Blohm+Voss. After the war the ship went to the USSR. In the Soviet Union it was known as «Tovarisch». During the Soviet period the ship has had time to appear in more than forty feature films, including the film «Scarlet Sails». After the collapse of the USSR, the bark was transferred to Ukraine, and in 2003 the Tall Ship friends society bought it for public donations and returned it to its original home port, German Stralsund.

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