{"id":42814,"date":"2025-02-06T15:45:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T14:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/?p=42814"},"modified":"2025-09-29T20:57:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T18:57:03","slug":"hamburg-fire-on-german-warship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/hamburg-brand-auf-deutschem-kriegsschiff\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamburg: Fire on German warship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>During the night from Monday to Tuesday, there was a fire on the reconnaissance vessel \"Alster\" (Oste class 423), which is currently in the floating dock of the Norderwerft shipyard in Hamburg harbour as part of a scheduled repair.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to initial information, there was a fire in an electrical distribution box. Crew members were able to extinguish the fire quickly. The fire brigade that was called out then checked the scene of the fire. The fire broke out at around 1.16 am, a fire service spokesperson told TAG24. As a precautionary measure, fireboats also travelled to the dock, but they were not needed.<\/p>\n<p>According to the responsible Federal Office of Bundeswehr Equipment, Information Technology and In-Service Support (BAAINBw), there was no damage to the unit and there were no injuries. The police are still investigating the cause of the fire.<\/p>\n<h4>Skills profile<\/h4>\n<p>The Bundeswehr has three so-called fleet service boats. In addition to the \"Alster\" (A50), these are the \"Oste\" (A52) and the \"Oker\" (A53). The ships were commissioned in 1988\/1989 and are to be replaced by three newbuilds starting in 2029. Construction of the first unit began last year at Naval Vessels L\u00fcrssen (NVL). The estimated cost is 3.2 billion euros. Marineforum reported on 22 November 2024:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/start-of-burning-of-the-first-fleet-service-boat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><button class=\"mfo-button\">To the article<\/button><\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_42817\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42817\" style=\"width: 445px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-42817\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/B2_Flottendienstboot-Oker-am-Polarkreis-2017_Quelle_Bundeswehr-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Hamburg: Fire on German warship. Photo: German Armed Forces\" width=\"445\" height=\"251\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-42817\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fleet service boat \"Oker\" 2017 at the Arctic Circle. Photo: German Armed Forces<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Bundeswehr describes the fleet service boats as \"highly sensitive eyes and ears\" not only for the navy, but for the entire Bundeswehr, because they are equipped with electronic, hydroacoustic and electro-optical sensors for surveillance in sea and coastal areas. The exact details of the systems and sensors are, of course, classified. Once they have left their home port of Eckernf\u00f6rde and are in international waters outside of foreign territories, fleet service boats can operate freely on the world's oceans.<\/p>\n<p>Their capabilities are therefore in constant demand in the constantly worsening security situation in the North and Baltic Seas. It would have been unthinkable if the Inspector General of the Bundeswehr had not cancelled the order to prematurely decommission the three SIGINT boats in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>kdk, Tag24<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In der Nacht von Montag auf Dienstag brannte es auf dem Aufkl\u00e4rungsschiff \u201eAlster\u201c (Oste-Klasse 423), das sich im Rahmen einer planm\u00e4\u00dfigen Instandsetzung derzeit im Schwimmdock der Norderwerft im Hamburger Hafen befindet. Nach ersten Informationen brannte es in einem Elektro-Verteilerkasten. Besatzungsangeh\u00f6rige hatten das Feuer schnell l\u00f6schen k\u00f6nnen. Die herbeigerufene Feuerwehr kontrollierte die Brandstelle anschlie\u00dfend. Das Feuer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":42816,"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":"2normal","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,486,42,52],"tags":[2701,3805,953,1350,8912,7261,182,5037,8913,686,8368,2837,2702,8914,8915,4460,8916,8917,8918],"class_list":["post-42814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sicherheitspolitik-news","category-headlines","category-news","category-technologie-news","tag-alster","tag-aufklaerungsschiff","tag-baainbw","tag-besatzung","tag-brandursache","tag-cir-operationen","tag-deutsche-marine","tag-feuer-an-bord","tag-feuerwehr","tag-flottendienstboote-424","tag-hamburger-norderwerft","tag-nvl-group","tag-oker","tag-oste-klasse-423","tag-planmaessige-instandsetzung","tag-sabotage","tag-schwimmdock","tag-sigint","tag-spionageschiff"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42814","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=42814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49284,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42814\/revisions\/49284"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}