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21st June 2023

German Navy Tall Ship 'Gorch Fock' Arrives in Dublin Bay

The German Navy tall ship Gorch Fock has anchored in Dublin Bay and will travel up the River Liffey into Dublin Port tomorrow, Thursday, 22nd June 2023, for a visit to the capital, carrying a total crew of 182, most of them naval cadets.

Used as a sail training vessel for the German Navy, the three-mast barque is under the command of Captain Andreas-Peter Graf von Kielmansegg.

Gorch Fock will arrive on Dublin Port's Berth 18 by approximately 10 am on Thursday, where she will be met by the German Ambassador to Ireland, Cord Meier-Klodt.

As regular Afloat readers will recall, Gorch Fock last visited Dublin eight years ago, in September 2015, as Afloat reported here

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Tall Ship Gorch Fock Berthing Mishap

Frequent visitor to Ireland, the Gorch Fock tall ship of the German Navy (Deutsche Marine) had a mishap coming into berth as the vid by youtuber Manfred Thoms shows.

Gorch Fock is the second ship of that name and a sister ship of the Gorch Fock built in 1933. Both ships are named in honour of the German writer Johann Kinau who wrote under the pseudonym "Gorch Fock" and died in the battle of Jutland/Skagerrak in 1916.

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Shannon Foynes Port Information

Shannon Foynes Port (SFPC) are investing in an unprecedented expansion at its general cargo terminal, Foynes, adding over two-thirds the size of its existing area. In the latest phase of a €64 million investment programme, SFPC is investing over €20 million in enabling works alone to convert 83 acres on the east side of the existing port into a landbank for marine-related industry, port-centric logistics and associated infrastructure. The project, which will be developed on a phased basis over the next five years, will require the biggest infrastructure works programme ever undertaken at the port, with the entire 83 acre landbank having to be raised by 4.4 metres. The programme will also require the provision of new internal roads and multiple bridge access as well as roundabout access.