Bremen (F 207)
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| Bremen (F 207) | |
| Bremen class | |
 Frigate Bremen (F 207) |
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| Overview | |
| Shipyard | |
| Keel laying | July 9, 1979 |
| Launch | September 27, 1979 |
| Namesake | Free Hanseatic City of Bremen |
| period of service |
1982 to 2014 |
| Commissioning | May 7, 1982 |
| Decommissioning | March 28, 2014 |
| home port | Wilhelmshaven |
| Whereabouts | advertised for scrapping |
| Technical specifications | |
| See: Frigate F122 | |
| displacement |
3,680 t |
| length |
130.5 meters |
| crew |
219 |
| drive |
CODOG propulsion : |
| speed |
Max. 30 knots |
| Callsign / identifier |
DRAQ / F 207 |
| Insinuation | |
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The Bremen was a frigate of the German Navy and type ship of the class F122 , also Bremen class. After the SMS Bremen she is the second warship of a German Navy, which bears this name and is named after the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen .
General
The later Bremen was laid on July 9, 1979 for the German Navy at the Bremer Vulkan shipyard. It was commissioned on May 7, 1982 and it was assigned to the 4th frigate squadron. Your main task should be fighting submarines. The city of Bremen sponsored the ship on May 29, 1982. Godmother was the wife of Bremen's Mayor Hans Koschnick , Christine Koschnick.
The Bremen was the first ship of the F-122 series and the first ship of the German Navy to carry helicopters. Over 50,000 hp, which were transmitted via two shafts to two seven-blade propellers, enabled her to travel at speeds of up to 30 knots . More than 200 crew members were on board.
After 32 years of service and around 1.5 million kilometers at sea, the Bremen was decommissioned in the naval arsenal in Wilhelmshaven on March 28, 2014. The frigate had already been taken out of service on September 30, 2013. 16 commanders commanded the ship during this time.
It was put up for sale in March 2020 and the buyer has to scrap it.
Commanders
| No. | Surname | Beginning of the term of office | Term expires |
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| 1. | Sea captain Dieter Weigel | May 1982 | September 1983 |
| 2. | Frigate Captain Klaus Peter Giesecke | October 1983 | September 1985 |
| 3. | Frigate Captain Volker Klein | October 1985 | June 1987 |
| 4th | Frigate Captain Klaus-Uwe Wolff | July 1987 | December 1988 |
| 5. | Frigate Captain Detlev Schuth | December 1988 | March 1992 |
| 6th | Frigate Captain Rolf Schmitz | April 1992 | September 1993 |
| 7th | Frigate Captain Rainer Mayer | October 1993 | July 1996 |
| 8th. | Frigate Captain Hans Joachim Rutz | July 1996 | August 1996 |
| 9. | Frigate Captain Hans-G. Gandyra | September 1996 | June 1997 |
| 10. | Frigate Captain André Hetke | July 1997 | August 2000 |
| 11. | Frigate Captain Peter Görg | August 2000 | February 2003 |
| 12. | Frigate Captain Dietrich Donker | February 2003 | May 2005 |
| 13. | Frigate Captain Thorsten Wiedemann | May 2005 | February 2007 |
| 14th | Frigate Captain Andreas Jedlicka | February 2007 | May 2009 |
| 15th | Frigate Captain Götz Eichberg | May 2009 | March 2012 |
| 16. | Frigate Captain Ingolf Schlobinsky | March 2012 | November 2013 |
Calls
The Bremen participated in various missions in part. In addition to frequent participation in permanent NATO units, this includes monitoring tasks in the Mediterranean during the Second Gulf War in 1991:
- At the end of January 1992, the ship accompanied the German freighter Godewind , which was stopped by the destroyer Mölders , from the interception point in the Mediterranean back to the Spanish port of Cartagena and then returned to the unit. The ship had wanted to transport 16 (other source 31) T-72 battle tanks from Czech stocks from Poland to Syria without a German permit .
- 1992 to 1996: The Sharp Guard embargoed operation in the Adriatic against the former Yugoslavia .
- Since 2002, he has been running Operation Enduring Freedom several times in the fight against international terrorism .
- 2009 to 2010: Operation Atalanta to combat piracy off the Somali coast , where their helicopters were able to repel a pirate attack on a merchant ship on August 14, 2009.
- May to September 2012: Operation Atalanta
Web links
- "Bremen" -class frigates (122). (No longer available online.) In: Museumshafen. Marine, archived from the original .
- Bundeswehr Classix: First combat ship "Bremen" of the frigate 122 is put into service (1982) on YouTube
Individual evidence
- ↑ Class 122/01 frigate ex Bremen. VEBEG, accessed on March 14, 2020 .
- ↑ a b Press office of the Senate of March 28, 2014: Frigate "Bremen" is retiring
- ↑ Press and Information Center Navy: Frigate "Bremen" decommissioned. Bundeswehr, March 28, 2014, accessed on March 28, 2014 .
- ↑ FRIGATE CLASS 122/01 "EX BREMEN". (PDF) In: www.vebeg.de. Vebeg, accessed on March 14, 2020 .
- ↑ The Operational Flotilla 2nd (PDF) 4th Frigate Squadron, July 2014, p. 99 , accessed on November 5, 2017 .
- ^ Klaus Lehmann: Frigates Bremen class . Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2010, ISBN 978-3-8391-8801-9 , pp. 32 .
- ↑ Frigate Captain Ingolf Schlobinsky takes command. In: Jeversches Wochenblatt. March 30, 2012. Retrieved November 5, 2017 .
- ↑ Dietmar Bökhaus: The commandant disembarks . In: Weser courier. November 23, 2013, accessed November 5, 2017 .
- ↑ Chronicle excerpt from Marinefliegergeschwader 3 "Graf Zeppelin" ( Memento from February 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (private website)
- ↑ Frigate BREMEN expires on an anti-piracy mission ( Memento from July 30, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Atalanta: On-board helicopter of the frigate Bremen thwarted pirate attack ( Memento from August 22, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ 30 year old "Bremen" in use . In: Wilhelmshavener Zeitung of May 3, 2012, p. 1