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UPDATE: Large container ship free again

UPDATE: Large container ship free again

Gepostet von | 3 Feb 2022 | , , | 0

The ship that ran aground on the night of 2 February while approaching the Weser estuary is free. Using a total of eight tugs, salvage teams on the North Sea have brought the grounded container freighter "Mumbai Maersk" back underway. This was announced by the Central Command for Maritime Emergencies in Cuxhaven after the salvage operation, according to dpa. According to the agency, the 400-metre-long ship was stuck in shallow water a good six kilometres north of the East Frisian island of Wangerooge....

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No ordinary application

No ordinary application

Gepostet von | 2 Feb 2022 | , , | 0

"Bad Rappenau" leaves home port for the Black Sea On 7 February 2022 at 10 a.m., the minesweeper "Bad Rappenau" will leave its home port of Kiel. The boat, which is part of the 3rd Mine Countermeasures Squadron, will make the German contribution to NATO's Standing Mine Countermeasures Group 2 (SNMCMG 2) for the next five months and the crew of the "Bad Rappenau" will meet up with the rest of the NATO group in Haifa (Israel) under the command of Corvette Captain Jan Brodersen (37). They will then head for the Black Sea. The minesweeper will visit nine countries, eleven ports and take part in five international manoeuvres during its voyage.

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Tonga without connection

Tonga without connection

Gepostet von | 2 Feb 2022 | , , | 1

Marineforum reported on 21 January about the damaged submarine cable on Tonga - an example of critical infrastructure. And now the repair by the specialised ship has been delayed. However, it will only arrive there in a week's time and the repairs cannot begin before then. Who lays important telecommunications infrastructure where in the South Pacific is also a geopolitical question. The hope for the special ship "Reliance" is also the hope of having Internet access again soon. The connection has been interrupted since the eruption of the Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Ha'apai volcano on 15 January. Tonga was completely cut off from the outside world for several days, but telephone calls via satellite are now possible again. But what the satellite...

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Berlin on the road!

Berlin on the road!

Gepostet von | 2 Feb 2022 | , , | 0

The task force provider "Berlin" has left Wilhelmshaven The # task force provider #Berlin was unable to depart from #Wilhelmshaven as planned on 1 February to take part in #SNMG1. 14 crew members tested positive for coronavirus in a PCR test. In the meantime, the EGV "Berlin" has cast off today at 2.00 pm. On board is the command staff of the association. The crew members who tested positive for coronavirus have been disembarked and isolated. Marineforum wishes you a safe journey!...

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Congratulations good old Fehmarn!

Congratulations good old Fehmarn!

Gepostet von | 1 Feb 2022 | , , | 0

Salvage tug "Fehmarn" put into service 55 years ago When the salvage tug "Fehmarn" with hull number A 1458 was put into service on 1 February 1967 by the Federal Ministry of Defence with commissioning order no. 281, the author of this birthday serenade, the current 1NSO of the "Fehmarn", had not even been born yet. In 1959, the German Armed Forces initiated an auxiliary shipbuilding programme for the German Navy, which was still under construction. The orders for the "Helgoland" as a type ship and the "Fehmarn" were placed with the Bremerhaven shipyard Schichau-Unterweser AG. The ships with diesel-electric propulsion were to be used as salvage tugs, icebreakers, for wreck searches, fire-fighting and towing...

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