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On Tuesday, February 1, 2022 at 12 noon, the task force supply ship “Berlin” will leave its home port of Wilhelmshaven to join the Standing NATO Maritime Group 1 (SNMG 1). The naval association is primarily responsible for controlling and protecting strategically important sea routes in the North Atlantic and North Sea. “The crew of the ‘Berlin’ and I are…
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(Google Translation) – On Saturday, July 10th, 2021 at 12 noon, the task force supplier “Berlin” will return to his home port of Wilhelmshaven under the command of frigate captain Stefan Klatt (52) from the European Union Naval Forces Mediterranean (EUNAVFOR MED) “Irini”. “In the past four months, I took part in Operation ‘Irini’ with ‘Berlin’ and my crew. Our…
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June 15, 2021 (Google Translation) – At sea, the days literally flow into one another, any sense of time is lost. Little sleep, no internet, never alone. Gorch Fock already called his 1913 novel “Seafaring is hardship”. For the crew of the task force supply company (EGV) “Berlin” there was only a short recovery phase in the port of Souda…
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June 14, 2021 (Google Translation) – On Monday, June 7, 2021, the frigate La Fayette led a Supply at Sea (RAM) maneuver to the north-west of Crete with the German supply tanker FGS Berlin , integrated into operation EUNAVFORMED IRINI 1 . Thus, 95 m3 of diesel could be taken on board in order to complete the bunkers and allow…
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May 4, 2021 (Google Translation) – Civil war has been raging in Libya for ten years. With Resolution 2509 (2020), the UN passed an embargo on arms deliveries against Libya. The aim is to stop the illegal arms trade and thereby remove a basis for the conflict. Germany has been participating in the European Union Naval Forces Mediterranean Irini mission…
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March 4, 2021 (Google Translation) – On Friday, March 5th, 2021 at 4 p.m., the task force supplier (EGV) “Berlin”, under the command of frigate captain Stefan Klatt (52), will leave the naval base in Wilhelmshaven to make his way to the Mediterranean. There the ship and crew will take over the next contingent for Operation “Irini”. “Once again I…
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September 14, 2020 (Google Translation) – On Thursday, September 17, 2020 at 10 am, the task force supplier (EGV) “Berlin” will return to its home port of Wilhelmshaven after more than five months from the NATO support mission in the Aegean Sea. At the beginning of April the “Berlin” left Wilhelmshaven under the command of frigate captain Stefan Klatt (51)…
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April 1, 2020 (Google Translation) – On Thursday, April 2nd, 2020, the task force supplier “Berlin” will leave the home port of Wilhelmshaven in the direction of the Aegean at 09:30 a.m. for a good five months in order to meet the frigate “Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania” in the Standing NATO Maritime Group 2 (SNMG 2). This had started towards the Mediterranean…
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