The Gorch Fock I is a German three-mast barque. Originally built as a school ship for the German Reichsmarine in 1933 she was taken as war reparation by the USSR after World War II. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union the ship sailed under the Ukranian fl ag from 1992 to 1993. In 1995 she was transferred to Newcastle-upon-Tyne for repairs which however were never even begun. In 1999 she was moved to Wilhelmshaven and fi nally acquired by private sponsors and transferred to her original home port Stralsund Germany where she was re-baptized Gorch Fock on November 29 2003. Today she is a museum ship and though efforts are being made to reactivate her it is doubtful whether she will sail ever again.