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

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.