A company from the US state of Vermont has been awarded a fixed-price contract worth around 460 million euros for the scrapping, recycling and disposal of the former USS "Enterprise" (CVN-65). The work in Mobile, Alabama, is due to be completed by November 2029. When it was commissioned in 1961, the historic "Enterprise" was the world's...
Focus on recruiting young talent On Saturday, 9 August 2025 at 12 noon, the sail training ship "Gorch Fock" will leave its home port of Kiel for a very special voyage, a late summer voyage, as part of the 187th/188th foreign training voyage. On Tuesday, 5 August 2025, the ship will move to Sartorikai, where it will take part in...
Task force provider "Berlin" departs for the "Atlantic Bear" manoeuvre On Sunday, 3 August 2025, the task force provider "Berlin" under the command of frigate captain Karsten Uwe Schlüter will leave its home port of Wilhelmshaven. When the ship cast off, there will also be people on board during the course of the voyage who will be...
Although there was no official launch at Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft (FSG), which has since been taken over by the Heinrich Rönner Group from Bremerhaven, the decommissioned frigate "Karlsruhe" (class 122) was undocked after a four-week stay at the shipyard. The newly organised FSG was thus able to celebrate two premieres. On the one hand, this...
Tomorrow, Saturday 12 July 2025, the frigate "Hamburg" will leave Wilhelmshaven to take part in Standing Nato Maritime Group 1 (SNMG 1). After training cruises in the first half of the year, the crew under the command of frigate captain Alexander Timpf will now head to the North Sea, the Baltic Sea...
A stock anchor of the barque has now been moored in front of the state government's guest house for 40 years and symbolises the solidarity of the state parliament with the crew and the German Navy's sail training ship. The Schleswig-Holstein parliament had taken over the sponsorship of the tall ship three years earlier on 26 January 1982. kdk, ndr Watch video...
On 30 June 2025, an agreement on civil-military cooperation was signed between the German Navy and the Directorate-General for Waterways and Shipping (GDWS). The agreement regulates cooperation for the management of civilian maritime traffic on German sea routes. Against the backdrop of the security policy situation, the agreement is in line with the...
For one week, the units of Flotilla 1 represented the German Navy at the Kiel Week and the Day of the Bundeswehr in Stralsund. On behalf of all the servicemen and women, reservists, volunteers, helpers and relatives, we would like to thank the crews of the corvette "Magdeburg" and the tender "Elbe" for...
Commander of Operational Flotilla 1 takes positive stock The commander of Operational Flotilla 1, Flotilla Admiral Christian Walter Meyer, invited numerous guests from politics, business, science, associations and clubs as well as representatives of the navy to the tender "Donau" to experience the windjammer parade together at the end of Kiel Week 2025. The traditional "Sail...
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