Corvette "Oldenburg" leaves Rostock home port, Photo: Bundeswehr
The German Navy's corvette "Oldenburg" is currently at sea off the Lebanese coast with a base in Limassol, Cyprus. This makes it the German unit serving in the immediate vicinity of the Palestinian-Israeli flashpoint. For the UNIFIL mission, it first left its home port of "Hohe Düne" in Warnemünde during the "Hanse Sail" in August to move to the eastern Mediterranean. There was actually no particular heartache associated with this,
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