German Navy: We are puzzling a corvette!

In order to give as many German shipyards as possible a slice of the cake, the ship is built proportionally: one makes the forecastle, another the stern, the third puts everything together and turns it into a proper hull - and the fourth gives the ship an electronic interior!

Fore section of the corvette K130 "Lübeck" on her way to Hamburg in the NOK. Photo: Michael Nitz

This is what happened again with the German Navy's latest newbuilding, the corvette Luebeck. The towing train with the corvette's forecastle section was towed from German Naval Yards Kiel (GNYK) through the Kiel Canal (NOK) to Blohm+Voss in Hamburg on 25 March 2023. One day later, on 26 March 2023, the stern section built by the Lürssen-Peenewerft shipyard in Wolgast (NVL) was towed the same way through the Kiel Canal to the traditional shipyard in Hamburg, where it arrived together with the foreship section on 27 March 2023. There, the two sections will be docked and joined together. The subsequent outfitting will be followed by commissioning and testing.

The corvette FGS Lübeck is the fifth and last boat of the second construction lot of the corvette class K130.