Category: Shipping

Frigate Bayern on Guam

Frigate Bayern on Guam

Gepostet von | 21 Oct 2021 | , , | 1

Following her week-long visit to Perth, Australia, the frigate BAYERN has entered the harbour of Guam as planned on her seven-month training cruise through the Indo-Pacific. During the 14-day transit, two bunker stops in Darwin/North Australia and Palau/Micronesia were planned in addition to smaller training sections with the navies of the nations on the route. Guam is the largest and southernmost island of the Mariana archipelago in the western Pacific Ocean and is a non-integrated territory of the United States of America. Here at the US Navy's naval base, the BAYERN is beginning a phase of closer cooperation with Germany's largest ally - this time on the...

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Changing of the guard: Minehunting boat "Bad Bevensen" replaces "Homburg"

Changing of the guard: Minehunting boat "Bad Bevensen" replaces "Homburg"

Gepostet von | 19 Oct 2021 | , , | 1

On Thursday, 21 October 2021, the minehunting boat "Bad Bevensen" will leave its home port of Kiel at 10 am. The boat will be part of NATO's Standing NATO Mine Countermeasures Group 1 (SNMCMG 1) for the coming months. She replaces the "Homburg", which had already left Kiel on 14 July. Under the command of Corvette Captain Christopher Fenske (37), the 42-strong crew will set sail for Cuxhaven to join the NATO organisation there. The first part of the approximately six-month deployment will take the "Bad Bevensen" to the Baltic Sea. After a break at the turn of the year, the...

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Submarine "U35" returns from deployment on 15 October

Submarine "U35" returns from deployment on 15 October

Gepostet von | 12 Oct 2021 | , , , | 0

Submarine "U35" returns to its home harbour from the EU mission "Irini". It is expected back on Friday, 15 October at 10 am. Under the command of Corvette Captain Oliver Brux (34), the boat took part in the European Union's Operation "Irini". Its task was to monitor and enforce the arms embargo against Libya, but also to disrupt smuggling activities on the refugee routes in the Mediterranean. "Our main task in the unit was the image reconnaissance of suspicious ships and boats and therefore also the collection of information," said the commander. The operational area extended from the central and southern Mediterranean south of the island of Sicily...

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Change of management at the Centre for Operational Testing in Eckernförde

Change of management at the Centre for Operational Testing in Eckernförde

Gepostet von | 6 Oct 2021 | , , | 0

On Thursday, 7 October at 10.30 a.m., the Commander of the Naval Support Command, Flotilla Admiral Lars Holm (60), will hand over command of the Operational Test Centre from Captain Jörg Dieter Lorentzen (54) to Captain Thomas Jaensch (54). Despite the coronavirus pandemic, the Centre for Operational Testing (ZEP) has been able to fulfil all its orders. The ZEP carries out the operational testing of newly introduced or significantly modified ships, boats, equipment and weapons. Three areas were further expanded in order to better fulfil the ZEP's core mission of testing and firing under operational conditions: Target presentation, simulation and technical analysis. Captain at sea...

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Gorch Fock back in Kiel - The odyssey's final act....

Gorch Fock back in Kiel - The odyssey's final act....

Gepostet von | 4 Oct 2021 | , , | 0

It's done. After more than 2,200 days in the shipyard, the German Navy's training sailing ship, the Gorch Fock, has returned to its traditional berth in its home harbour - and the pier now also bears the name of the poet Rudolf Kinau, alias "Gorch Fock". The ship, repeatedly derided in many media as a "ship of fools, a three-masted circus, a million-dollar grave", has officially ended its shipyard phase and is once again available to the German Navy as a training and representation platform. Following the handover in Wilhelmshaven on World Maritime Day, which took place in a small, high-ranking ceremony, the Gorch Fock met with Vice Admiral Karsten Stawitzky, Head of the Armaments Department of the BMVg and...

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