German tall ship mutiny after cadet's death fall

9:00 PM Sun 23 Jan 2011 GMT

'Gorch Fock in action' .

Life on a tall ship is meant to be an adventure, but after a female recruit called Sarah Schmidt, 25, was killed when she fell 100 feet from the foremast, the rest of the cadets had had enough, and they mutinied against the captain. It happened in Brazil in November, on Germany's most famous sailing ship, the Gorch Fock, and has caused serious embarrassment to military chiefs in Germany. The elegant tall ship, named after the German poet Gorch Fock who died in a 1916 sea battle, was on a round-the-world sailing trip when the incident occurred, but as a ...

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