Gorch Fock (left) and Horst Wessel, date and location unknown. Gorch Fock is a German three-mast barque, the first of a series built as school ships for the German Reichsmarine in 1933. She was taken as war reparations by the Soviet Union after World War II and renamed Tovarishch. The ship was acquired by sponsors, after a short period under the Ukrainian flag in the 1990s. Then she sailed to her original home port of Stralsund where her original name of Gorch Fock was restored on 29 November 2003. She is a museum ship. The Federal German government built a replacement training ship Gorch Fock II (1958) which is still in service. The design of Gorch Fock proved highly successful. She was the first of a series of five sister ships built by Blohm & Voss, and a number of South American school ships are also based on the same design. Of the three original sister ships, only Mircea is an exact replica of Gorch Fock. Horst Wessel and Albert Leo Schlageter are 7 metres (23 ft) longer, and all three have slightly more powerful auxiliary engines. At the end of World War II, Horst Wessel became one of several war reparations and was assigned to the United States. Since then, she has sailed under the name Eagle for the United States Coast Guard.