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Posted on July 13, 2026 by laststandonzombieisland Leave a comment The 400-mile run from the Hudson through the Cape Cod Precautionary Area to Boston by four of the Gorch Fock-class training barques over the weekend was won by Gorch Fock II, which also won the original OpSail76 Five Sisters Race and is the current holder of the Tiffany Trophy. Ironically, theContinue reading “Clouds on Cape Cod: The (Four of the) Five Sisters Cup Finish – Photos”
Horst Wessel (the future USCGC Eagle) at the Mürwik Naval Academy in Flensburg, Germany, during 1937, two years before the start of WWII. While the U.S. got Horst Wessel (now Eagle) in 1946, and has used her ever since, and Norkus never sailed, the original Gorch Fock went to the Russians, who kept her until 2003, then gave her backContinue reading “f you are reading this blog, you likely already know that “America’s Tall Ship,” the 269-foot steel-hulled three-masted barque USCGC Eagle (WIX-327), started life in 1936 as one of the quartet of John Stanley-designed Gorch Fock-class school ships (segelschulschiff) for the German Kriegsmarine (Gorch Fock, Horst Wessel, Albert Leo Schlageter, and Herbert Norkus), followed by Mircea for the Romanian Navy.”
The ships include, from left to right: the French station ship at Saigon, the former battleship LOIRE (ex-HOCHE, ex-PRINCE-JÉROME, ex-ANNIBAL) which was at Saigon during 1886-1897; a French river gunboat (in the foreground); the Russian armored cruiser PAMIAT AZOVA (1888-1919); an unidentified Russian armored cruiser, probably the VLADIMIR MONOMAKH (1881-1905); a Russian gunboat, probably theContinue reading “French & Russian Ships in Saigon Late 1880s”
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