{"id":54641,"date":"2026-04-30T09:57:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T07:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/?p=54641"},"modified":"2026-04-30T11:37:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T09:37:20","slug":"last-corvette-k130-christened-luebeck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/letzte-korvette-k130-getauft-auf-den-namen-luebeck\/","title":{"rendered":"Last corvette K130 christened L\u00fcbeck"},"content":{"rendered":"
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First ship christening for Rheinmetall<\/strong><\/p>

On Wednesday, 29 April 2026, the last of the German Navy's five new Class 130 corvettes (second batch) was christened L\u00fcbeck by Huong Nguyen, partner of L\u00fcbeck City President Henning Schumann, at Rheinmetall's Blohm+Voss site in Hamburg.<\/p>

On behalf of the K130 consortium (Naval Systems, Thyssen-Krupp Marine Systems and German Naval Yards Kiel), the management of Rheinmetall's Naval Systems division organised the naming ceremony in Hamburg.<\/p>

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Christening of the corvette L\u00fcbeck<\/figcaption><\/figure>

The naming ceremony took place in the presence of Vice Admiral Axel Deertz, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations and Commander of the Fleet and Support Forces, and Mr J\u00fcrgen Giefer, Director of the Federal Office of Bundeswehr Equipment, Information Technology and In-Service Support. Mr Jan Lindenau, Mayor of the Hanseatic City of L\u00fcbeck, and Mr Armin Papperger, Chairman of the Executive Board of Rheinmetall AG, and Mr Tim Wagner, CEO of Rheinmetall's Naval Systems division, were of course also present. The latter two gentlemen emphasised the good cooperation within the K130 consortium and the importance of such shipbuilding projects for the defence capability of our country and our NATO partners. \u201eWe at Rheinmetall are ready for battle,\u201c emphasised the CEO.<\/p>

In his speech, Vice Admiral Deertz reminded the audience with all due politeness of the delays in the project and emphasised that ships in dock are not a deterrent.<\/p>

After all, the bottle smashed on the bow of the ship at Rheinmetall's first christening without any problems on the first attempt.<\/p>

The fifth new corvette L\u00fcbeck (side number F 269) is also the fifth warship with this name in the 178-year history of German fleets. The frigate \u201eL\u00fcbeck\u201c (side number F 214) was the last representative of the Bremen class (F122) to be decommissioned on 15 December 2022. The frigate known as \u201eLucky L\u00fcbeck\u201c travelled a total of 863,449 nautical miles during her 32 years of service.<\/p>

Its predecessor ship from the days of the German Navy had been commissioned in 1963 as \u201eGeleitboot 55\u201c, and in 1966 all six units of this class were redesignated as \u201eFrigate F120\u201c. From then on, the L\u00fcbeck (side number F 224) belonged to the K\u00f6ln class. The ship was decommissioned in 1988 and sold to Turkey as a spare parts store.<\/p>

There was also a L\u00fcbeck in the Imperial Navy, which was commissioned as a small cruiser in 1905. She had a chequered history, taking part in naval battles in the Baltic Sea during the First World War, where she was both a hard hitter and a hard loser, but always remained a happy L\u00fcbeck. In 1920, she was delivered to Great Britain under the Treaty of Versailles and then scrapped in Germany in 2022 - 2023.<\/p>

The first L\u00fcbeck was built in 1844 with two steam-driven side wheels and sails as a cargo ship in Leith. In 1848, she was sold to Hamburg, got four cannons on board and was incorporated into the newly founded First Imperial Fleet as the wheeled corvette L\u00fcbeck. She took part in the naval battle near Heligoland on 4 June 1849 and fired \u201ea good 17 shots of grenades and bullets\u201c<\/em> (quote from Admiral Brommy's battle report) on her Danish opponent, incidentally without damage to friend or foe. After the fleet was disbanded, she was sold back to England in December 1852 and scrapped in 1858.<\/p>

The name L\u00fcbeck seems to guarantee happy service times \u201ewith a planned end\u201c. The festive and very successful christening ceremony suggests another \u201eLucky L\u00fcbeck\u201c.<\/p>

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