{"id":40712,"date":"2024-10-25T19:17:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-25T17:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/?p=40712"},"modified":"2025-09-29T20:59:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T18:59:04","slug":"goodbye-landing-craft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/auf-nimmer-wiedersehen-landungsboot\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye, landing craft!"},"content":{"rendered":"

We knew it a long time ago: at some point, the last \"Barbe\" class landing craft would come to an end. And now it's over, the era of the amphibian. After 58 years in service, the multi-purpose landing craft \"Lachs\" has been decommissioned. And with that, the list of special features surrounding this weapon system comes to an end. Weapon system? That's right. Weapon system! And what special features, it's low tech! Exactly, that's a special feature.<\/p>\n

\"\"It was special that you could deliberately ground a landing craft, otherwise a nautical sin. It was also special that the commanders of the landing craft were petty officers and therefore wore the star. The star represented the special legal status of a warship commander. It was also special because objects that were too bulky, too cumbersome and too complicated to transport by road could be transported on the coast with little bureaucracy.<\/p>\n

\"Commander
Commander MZL \"Salmon\".
Photo: hsc<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Especially because these boats apparently contained an infinite wealth of wish fulfilment. Christmas party? No problem, huge lower deck. VIP trip or recruiting young talent? No worries, there was room here. Bringing officer candidates to the orientation march, of course! Cheetah tanks have even been spotted on the boats. There are no more. Only amphibious is not enough, at the end of its life \"Salmon\" with its endless possibilities to solve small fleet problems seemed to resist decommissioning like no other boat class before.<\/p>\n

Deep respect for Staff Boatswain Hellwig and his crew!<\/p>\n

\"What
What remains of the day: Name badge, bell and commander's pennant. Photo: Hummer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Tell us about your memories!<\/strong><\/p>\n

About the Amphibious Group, Pl\u00fcschow harbour, Grossenbrode, the Strandmeisterkomanie and the many small and large heroic deeds of this era. Please send texts, pictures and stories to the editors!<\/p>\n

Follow-up:<\/strong><\/p>\n

My grandson comes in and asks what kind of strange boat it is. I explain it to him. Conclusion of a nine-year-old: \"like daddy's trailer, doesn't look cool, but no wood without it and stupid at OBI\". Any more questions?<\/p>\n

\"Multipurpose
Multi-purpose landing craft \"Lachs\". Photo: Michael Nitz<\/figcaption><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wir wussten es bereits seit langer Zeit: Irgendwann w\u00fcrde Schluss sein mit dem letzten Landungsboot der \"Barbe\" Klasse. Und nun ist sie vorbei, die \u00c4ra der Amphibie. Nach 58 Jahren im Dienst wurde das Mehrzwecklandungsboot \"Lachs\" au\u00dfer Dienst gestellt. Und damit endet auch die Liste der Besonderheiten, die dieses Waffensystem umrankt. Waffensystem? Ja genau. Waffensystem! […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":40720,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"3high","footnotes":""},"categories":[51,486,42],"tags":[504,3784,182,8304,8306,3933,8303,8305,8307,8308],"class_list":["post-40712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-streitkraefte-news","category-headlines","category-news","tag-amphibik","tag-ausserdienststellung","tag-deutsche-marine","tag-grossenbrode","tag-kuestendienstschule","tag-landungsboot","tag-lzb","tag-plueschowhafen","tag-strandmeister","tag-strandmeisterkompanie"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40712"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49448,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40712\/revisions\/49448"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}