A seafaring writer's final voyage: the tomb…

Visit the grave of a poet who died in the Battle of Jutland and wrote a poem predicting his fate.

The poet and writer Johann Wilhelm Kinau, better known by his pseudonym Gorch Fock, served in the German Navy and died during the Battle of Jutland in 1916. His body was discovered washed up on the Väderöbod island in Sweden and was later buried on the nearby island of Stensholmen. The body of this seafaring writer was found with a sealed box containing a poem he had written that predicted his demise. His most popular work, 'Seefahrt ist Not!' (or 'Seafaring is Hardship'), was published posthumously in 1913.

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A seafaring writer's final voyage: the tomb of Gorch Fock

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