[et_pb_section fb_built="1" _builder_version="4.16" global_colors_info="{}"][et_pb_row _builder_version="4.16" background_size="initial" background_position="top_left" background_repeat="repeat" global_colors_info="{}"][et_pb_column type="4_4" _builder_version="4.16" custom_padding="|||" global_colors_info="{}" custom_padding__hover="|||"][et_pb_text _builder_version="4.17.6" _module_preset="default" global_colors_info="{}"] On Friday, 9 September 2022, the sail training ship "Gorch Fock" arrived in its home port of Kiel. The crew was welcomed by Flotilla Admiral Jens Nemeyer, the commander of the Mürwik Naval Academy. The day before, the...
On Wednesday, 7 September 2022 at 10 a.m., the frigate "Mecklenburg-Vorpommern" departed Wilhelmshaven to take part in a permanent NATO fleet formation. "We were already part of the Very High Readiness Task Force (VJTF) for almost two months in the spring of this year and are now, after a short summer break, returning to...
On Friday (2 September), the Iranian navy announced that it had seized two American-made sailing drones in the Red Sea because they were apparently "ownerless and uncontrolled, threatening the navigational safety of shipping". After receiving two calls from an American destroyer in the sea area, the two drones were unceremoniously taken on board the Iranian...
The Iranian Revolutionary Guards officially put their new "helicopter carrier" into service in Bandar Abbas at the beginning of the week and named it after their Guard leader Major General Qasem Soleimani, who was killed in an American drone attack in January 2020 and was also given the honourable title of "martyr". Powerhouse The completely nationally designed...
Marinha do Brasil: "S-40 Riachuelo" put into service On 1 September 2022, the Brazilian Navy put the "S-40 Riachuelo" submarine into service. The unit is the first of four new submarines with conventional propulsion (NATO classification SSK). When it was launched in December 2018, it was already scheduled to enter service in 2020.
Warnemünde base supports safety exercise At the end of August, international emergency services practised combating pollutants in the north-eastern Mecklenburg Bight. 15 ships and 400 emergency personnel from eight countries bordering the Baltic Sea took part in the training. This time, the planning and supervision of the annual exercise was the responsibility of the Central Command for Maritime Emergencies in Cuxhaven, the joint organisation of the federal government and the five...
[et_pb_section fb_built="1" _builder_version="4.16" global_colors_info="{}"][et_pb_row _builder_version="4.16" background_size="initial" background_position="top_left" background_repeat="repeat" global_colors_info="{}"][et_pb_column type="4_4" _builder_version="4.16" custom_padding="|||" global_colors_info="{}" custom_padding__hover="|||"][et_pb_text _builder_version="4.16" background_size="initial" background_position="top_left" background_repeat="repeat" global_colors_info="{}"]Wilhelmshaven - On Monday, 5 September 2022 at 2 p.m., the frigate "Hessen" and her crew will cast off. She will leave her home port of Wilhelmshaven to join the US carrier...
29.September bis 2. Oktober 2022 in Bremen und Bremerhaven Unter der Schirmherrschaft des Bundespräsidenten Dr. Frank-Walter Steinmeier findet in Kooperation der Nautischen Vereine, des Bundesverbandes der Deutschen Binnenschifffahrt (BDB) und des Deutschen Marinebundes (DMB) vom 29. September bis zum 2. Oktober der Deutsche Schifffahrtstag an den zwei maritimen Standorten Bremen...
Betrug in elf Fällen, unter anderem auch in Sachen "Gorch Fock" Die Staatsanwaltschaft Osnabrück gibt in einer Pressemitteilung vom 02.09.2022 bekannt, dass Anklage wegen Betruges in einem besonders schweren Fall zum Nachteil des Marinearsenals Wilhelmshaven gegen zwei ehemalige Vorstände der Elsflether Werft AG erhoben wurde. Mit der umfangreichen Anklageschrift wirft...
Today, on 5 September 2022, the frigate "Hessen" is leaving its home port to join the US Carrier Strike Group (CSG) under the command of Frigate Captain Volker Kübsch. Together with the American aircraft carrier "USS Gerald R. Ford", the German frigate operates primarily within the group's air defence and is an integral part of the aircraft carrier group. In...
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