Stockholm tar Posted July 29, 2015 Share #1 Posted July 29, 2015 Coincidental with the photograph posted recently in the Amazing Photographs thread, comes this interesting story from an old seaman who sailed on the Horst Wessel (now the Eagle): http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-33543706 Farbror Fartyg, davyboy, Omega1234 and 2 others 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobstrake Posted July 31, 2015 Share #2 Posted July 31, 2015 Kester, It's ironic that you shared this story from Sweden, about an American ship from Germany, reported on the British news. It can't get any better than that. This is the first time I heard that the Eagle is being refitted before being given back to Germany next year. Thanks ever so much for sharing! Stockholm tar 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
popeye2sea Posted July 31, 2015 Share #3 Posted July 31, 2015 Kester, It's ironic that you shared this story from Sweden, about an American ship from Germany, reported on the British news. It can't get any better than that. This is the first time I heard that the Eagle is being refitted before being given back to Germany next year. Thanks ever so much for sharing! She is not being given back to Germany. She is going to visit to commemorate the 70th anniversary of her transfer to the USA. Regards, Bobstrake and Mirabell61 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobstrake Posted July 31, 2015 Share #4 Posted July 31, 2015 Henry, Thank you for the correction. It makes more sense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stockholm tar Posted July 31, 2015 Author Share #5 Posted July 31, 2015 Bob, I think he's pleased that the US have her now – and still used as a training ship. Bobstrake 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talos Posted July 31, 2015 Share #6 Posted July 31, 2015 Her sister ship, Gorch Foch II (a replacement for the original Gorch Foch which was the first of Eagle's class in Germany, which was taken as Russian war reperations and wasn't brought back to Germany until the early 2000s but is in pretty rough shape) is still in use in the German Navy as a sail training ship. The Portuguese and the Romanians also operate sisters of the class, the Sagres III and the Mircea respectively. It would be neat to see as many of those together as possible for that anniversary. Bobstrake, Canute and Mirabell61 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mirabell61 Posted July 31, 2015 Share #7 Posted July 31, 2015 Talos, agree, that would be a terriffic sight, seeing all those sisters during a "Operation Sail" event or so...... The Gorch Fock II threemast barque though is a post war build, launched 1958 at Blohm & Voss shipyard Hamburg, and allthough since then many updates, changes and more safety related modernizing and fitting out have taken place, it`s momentary condition can be considered as one of the safest and well mantained ships of the german Bundesmarine. The first Gorch Fock 1, (intermediate Russian named : Towarisch) being one of the original 6 sister ships as you described , to my knowledge is moored to the pier in Stralsund (Baltic sea) waiting to be re-rigged and overhauled, provided there will be sufficient financial sponsoring. Nils mtaylor, Bobstrake and Canute 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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