Danube (A 69)
| Danube (A69) | |
|---|---|
 Tender Donau (A69) in Olpenitz with permanent flags for the 35th anniversary of the squadron, 1993 |
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| Overview | |
| Type | tender |
| Shipyard | |
| Launch | 1960 |
| Namesake | Danube river |
| 1. Period of service |
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| Commissioning | 1964 |
| Decommissioning | 1994 |
| Whereabouts | Delivered to Turkey |
| Technical specifications | |
| displacement |
2940 t |
| length |
98.2 m |
| width |
11.8 m |
| Draft |
4.7 m |
| crew |
132 men (5 officers, 17 PUOs , 36 NCOs and 74 men), of which 35 men (7 officers, 18 PUOs and 10 NCOs) are the SUG system support group |
| drive |
6 Maybach diesel engines with 14,400 hp on 2 shafts |
| speed |
20 kn |
| Armament |
2 100 mm DP guns L / 55 Creusot-Loire, |
The Tender Donau (A 69) was a Rhine- class supply and command ship for speedboats of the German Federal Navy .
Tenders serve as supply ships in the German Navy . They provide combat units (speedboats, minesweepers , submarines ) with everything they need. In the German Navy, the tenders are named after large German rivers. In the German Navy, the Danube was given the name of the A 69 as well as the A 516 of the Elbe class.
history
The ship was christened on November 26, 1960. The tender was put into service on May 23, 1964. It was built at the Schlichting shipyard in Lübeck- Travemünde . Together with twelve other ships, it belonged to the Rhine class. Within this class, the speedboat tenders were given the designation 401, the minesweeper tenders the 402 and the submarine tenders the 403.
The coat of arms of the Danube tender shows the coat of arms of Deggendorf . The city in the Danube valley had taken on the sponsorship of the tender.
After it was put into service, the Danube tender was prepared as a training ship and continued for officer training until the end of 1968. Thereafter, assigned to the reserve flotilla, the Danube was subsequently decommissioned. From February 18, 1970 he was put back into service as a tender for the 2nd Schnellbootgeschwader .
In 1991 the tender served as a supplier for the minesweepers that participated in mine clearance in the Persian Gulf after the Second Gulf War . In 1993 the 2nd SG visited Klaipėda in Lithuania as the first association of the German Navy with the Danube .
On December 1, 1994, the tender was finally decommissioned and then handed over to Turkey .
Data
The cruising speed of the Danube was 15 knots, the maximum speed 18 to 20 knots. The tender was equipped with air conditioning, which is why it was used in 1991 in the Persian Gulf for minesweepers.
Tender Donau A69 with two boats of the 2nd SG in Kristiansand, Norway
Tender Danube A69 in summer 1990 in Kristiansand, Norway
Commanders
| commander | time |
|---|---|
| Corvette Captain Feindt | May 1964 – September 1964 |
| Frigate Captain Mohs | October 1964 – May 1966 |
| Frigate Captain Oehlke | June 1966 – March 1968 |
| unoccupied | April 1968 – January 1970 |
| Corvette Captain Kriewitz | February 1970 – September 1970 |
| Corvette captains Eicken | October 1970 – September 1971 |
| Corvette Captain Boysen | October 1971 – September 1973 |
| Corvette Captain Hufenbach | October 1973 – September 1975 |
| Corvette Captain Ziemer | October 1975 – June 1978 |
| Corvette Captain Fechtmann | July 1978 – September 1980 |
| Corvette Captain Fischer | October 1980 – March 1981 |
| Corvette Captain v. Great | April 1981-July 1983 |
| Corvette Captain Ridder | August 1983-May 1986 |
| Corvette Captain Förster | June 1986-September 1987 |
| Corvette Captain Jentzsch | October 1987-September 1992 |
| Corvette Captain Munzer | October 1992 – December 1994 |
See also
List of ships of the Bundeswehr
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Freundeskreis Schnellboote-Korvetten, accessed on January 20, 2015