Mircea (ship)
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Mircea is a three-masted barque, built in 1938 in Hamburg by the Blohm & Voss shipyard as a training vessel for the Romanian Navy. Her design is based on the successful plans of Gorch Fock; the last of a series of four sister ships. The ship is named after the Wallachian Voivode, Mircea the Elder. After World War II she was temporarily taken over by the USSR, but later returned to Romania. In 1966, she was overhauled by Blohm & Voss.
Mircea
The bow figurehead of the ship
The oil painting from the officer quarters aboard the Mircea representing a chronology of the Romanian ships, Dimitrie Știubei, 1939
Image: Bricul Mircea 2
Gorch Fock (1933)
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Gorch Fock I is a German three-mast barque, the first of a series built as school ships for the German Reichsmarine in 1933.
Gorch Fock in Stralsund, 2019
Showing Stralsund flag, and with name "товарищ" painted over
Gorch Fock, painting of her early days at sea by the Swedish artist Gunnar Larsson (1907–1982).
Gorch Fock in the 1930s