Gorch Fock-class Photographs | World War II Database


Gorch Fock under construction, Blohm und Voss shipyard, Hamburg, Germany, 1933	Launching ceremony of Gorch Fock at the Blohm und Voss shipyard in Hamburg, Germany, 3 May 1933	Launching of Horst Wessel, Blohm und Voss shipyard, Hamburg, Germany, 13 Jun 1936	Horst Wessel, late 1936

Horst Wessel at the Mürwik Naval School, Flensburg, Germany, 1937	Officers and men aboard Horst Wessel, 1937	Field Marshal Werner von Blomberg (center) and his adjutant Captain Lieutenant Hubert von Wangenheim aboard Horst Wessel, Germany, 1 May 1937	Field Marshal Werner von Blomberg inspecting the crew of Horst Wessel, accompanied by Captain Thiele and another officer, Germany, 1 May 1937

Horst Wessel in the Baltic Sea while sailing from Pillau, Germany (now Baltijsk, Russia) to Sassnitz, Rügen island, Germany, 23 Jul 1937	Gorch Fock, late 1930s	Rear Admiral Walter Warzecha (right), Hitler Youth leader Artur Axmann (front row, next to Warzecha) aboard Horst Wessel, Germany, Aug 1940	Horst Wessel at Bremerhaven, Germany, 1946

USCGC Eagle off Castillo San Felipe del Morro, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 21 May 2014