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April 13, 2020 (Google Translation) – On Wednesday, April 14, 2021 at 10 a.m., the mine-hunting boat “Datteln” will call at its home port in Kiel again after three months of NATO service. The boat and its crew were part of one of the two permanent NATO mine countermeasures group, the “Standing NATO Mine Countermeasures Group 1”, SNMCMG 1 for…
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January 13, 2021 (Google Translation) – On January 12th, minehunter Datteln left her homeport of Kiel to become part of NATO’s SNMCMG1. One crewmember is also a US exchange sailor providing support in the field of sonar. The first part of the roughly three-month mission will take Datteln to the North Sea, before heading back to the Baltic Sea at…
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