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On Friday, March 25, 2022 at 10 a.m., the sailing training ship “Gorch Fock” is expected back in its home port of Kiel. This ends after a little more than four months and around 8,000 nautical miles the 171st foreign training trip (AAR) and thus the first sea voyage after a long stay in the shipyard. Under the command of Captain…
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The sailing training ship “Gorch Fock” will leave its home port of Kiel on Wednesday, November 10th, 2021 at 10 a.m. to embark on the first foreign training trip after the long stay in the shipyard. Under the command of Captain Nils Brandt (55), the white three-master with a total of around 120 crew members sets course for the Canary…
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On Tuesday, October 26th, 2021 at 10 a.m., the mine-hunting boat “Homburg” will return to its home port in Kiel. The 43-strong crew from the 3rd Mine Detection Squadron participated in the Standing NATO Mine Counter Measures Group 1 (Standing NATO Mine Counter Measures Group 1) for the past three months. Together with ships and boats from seven NATO nations,…
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On Thursday, October 21, 2021 at 10 a.m., the mine-hunting boat “Bad Bevensen” left Kiel. For the coming months, the boat will belong to the Standing NATO Mine Countermeasures Group 1 (Standing NATO Mine Countermeasures Group 1) and will replace the “Homburg”. Under the command of Corvette Captain Christopher Fenske (37), the 42-man crew will leave for Cuxhaven to join…
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On Friday, October 1st, 2021, the German Navy gave some new names to its property in Kiel. From now on, the Kiel naval base is no longer called Tirpitzhafen, but rather naval base Kiel-Wik; based on the Wik district in the north of Kiel. The southern outer pier will in future be called the Gorch Fock pier, no longer the…
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On Monday, October 4th, 2021, the German Navy’s sailing training ship “Gorch Fock” is expected to return to the home port of Kiel. After handing over the ship from the repairs back to the Navy, the crew of around 120 under the command of Captain Nils Brandt (54) sets off with their ship from Wilhelmshaven on the way home to…
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On Monday, September 6, 2021 at 10 a.m., the fuel tanker “Spessart” of the Rhön class will leave the naval port of Kiel to join the Standing NATO Maritime Group 2 (SNMG 2) in the Aegean. Once in the operational area, the civilian fleet tanker will support the “Schleswig-Holstein” frigate, which had already set out for the Mediterranean in mid-August.…
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The forecastle of the future corvette “Karlsruhe” passed the former frigate “Karlsruhe” on August 18 at the Kiel Naval Arsenal. The destination of the “half” corvette is almost 95 nautical miles to the south, in the former Blohm & Voss shipyard in Hamburg, which today belongs to the Lürssen Group. The front part of the future “Karlsruhe” began its journey…
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(Google Translation) – On Monday, July 12th, 2021 at 10 a.m., the tender “Elbe” and the mine-hunting boat “Homburg” will leave their home port in Kiel together to join the NATO Standing Mine Countermeasures Association, SNMCMG 1 (Standing NATO Mine Countermeasures Group 1). The tender “Elbe” is used as a lead ship for the US-led staff of the international naval…
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Author Frigate Captain Göran Swistek is visiting scholar at the Science and Politics Foundation in Berlin. From 2015 to 2017 he was responsible for the planning and implementation of BALTOPS at STRIKFORNATO. June 19, 2021 (Google Translation) – As early as 1970 gathered under US United States- American leadership of naval units of the NATO Baltic Sea countries Denmark, Norway…
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