Complex sentence: Both ships are named in honor of the German writer Johann Kinau who wrote under the pseudonym "Gorch Fock" and died in the battle of Jutland/Skagerrak in 1916.
Split into simpler sentences: Both ships are named in honor of the German writer Johann Kinau. He wrote under the pseudonym "Gorch Fock" and died in the battle of the Skagerrak in 1916.