Frankfurt am Main (A 1412)
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| Frankfurt am Main (A 1412) | |
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 Frankfurt am Main in Portsmouth , January 2009 |
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| Overview | |
| Type | Supply ship |
| Shipyard | |
| Order | August 22, 1997 |
| Launch | January 5, 2001 |
| Namesake | City of Frankfurt am Main |
| Commissioning | May 27, 2002 |
| home port | Wilhelmshaven |
| Technical specifications | |
| For technical data see: EGV 702 | |
| displacement |
approx. 18,000 t |
| length |
174 m |
| width |
24 m |
| Draft |
7.60 m |
| crew |
159, including 12 officers |
| speed |
20 kn |
| Armament |
4 naval light guns 27 mm, Fliegerfaust 2 |
| Callsign / identifier |
DRKB / A 1412 |
| Insinuation | |
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The Frankfurt am Main is a task force supply of the German Navy of the type EGV 702 , also Berlin class. It is the second unit in this class. It is named after the Hessian city of Frankfurt am Main .
history
The Frankfurt am Main was laid down at the Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft and christened on January 5, 2001 by the Mayor of Frankfurt , Petra Roth . Then it went to Kiel to HDW , where the final equipment took place. The commissioning took place on May 27, 2002.
Her first home port was Kiel, and since September 26, 2012 she has been stationed at the Heppenser Groden naval base in Wilhelmshaven.
On March 16, 2017, the task force supply company was damaged in the evening when it entered the home port of Wilhelmshaven. When reversing in the sea lock, the Frankfurt am Main touched the stern of the concrete porch of the lock island. The planned participation in the Joint Warrior maneuver near Scotland for the following week had to be canceled.
tasks
The task of Frankfurt am Main is to (re) supply an association of warships with water, fuel, food, ammunition and other supplies. This can significantly extend the durability of associations. In addition, Frankfurt has a military hospital housed in a container system , the “ Marine Einsatzrettungszentrum 2” (MERZ), which has about the treatment capacity of a district hospital. Injured people are brought on board in their own or third-party helicopters, treated there until they are fit for transport and then flown out. The container system consists of operating theaters and intensive care rooms, a clinical and a microbiological laboratory as well as sterilizers and workshops for the support group. There is an additional bed ward below the container system.
Calls
- May 19 - October 13, 2003: Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) in the Horn of Africa / Djibouti
- February 24 - July 9, 2004: DESTROYER EXERCISE 2004 (DESEX) maneuver
- 2005: Stay in the shipyard in Kiel
- October 15, 2006 - March 1, 2007: UNIFIL support for maritime surveillance off Lebanon
- March 2007: EU Maritime Task Group
- January 20 - June 19, 2009: Operations and Training Association 2009 (EAV) and participation in the Noble Manta submarine hunt maneuver
- April 2009: Participation in the UNITAS Gold exercise off Florida
- January 10 - June 18, 2010: Mission and Training Association 2010 (EAV)
- February 15 - March 16, 2010: Good Hope IV (Combined Joint Exercise) at the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa
- May 1 - June 11, 2010: Operation Active Endeavor (OAE)
- February 27 - June 23, 2012: Mission and Training Association 2012 (EAV)
- April 2 - June 14, 2013: Task Force and Training Association 2013 (EAV)
- August 26 - September 6, 2013: Maneuver FLOTEX 2013 in the Bay of Kiel
- September 6 - September 19, 2013: Northern Coasts '13 maneuvers off Gotland in Sweden
- February 11 - May 20, 2014: Emergency and Training Association 2014 (EAV)
- July 1, 2014 - July 21, 2015: Shipyard stay in the Emden Werft- und Dockbetriebe (EWD) for repairs after the Frankfurt am Main had driven 503,000 km. While the container-based marine rescue center (MERZ) was relocated to a company in the overseas port in Bremen, there was a major fire there on February 22, 2015, in which the MERZ was damaged.
- January 11th - June 30th, 2016: as replacement for the task force provider Berlin at the EU NAVFOR Med - Operation Sophia , together with the corvette Ludwigshafen am Rhein
- On February 21, 2016, it became known that 120 refugees were rescued by a rubber dinghy in the Mediterranean Sea 25 kilometers off the Libyan coast.
- On April 12, 2016 alone, the Frankfurt am Main rescued 737 people from distress at sea.
- On October 19, 2017, the Frankfurt am Main left her home port to replace the frigate Lübeck with the Standing NATO Maritime Group 2 (SNMG2) in the Aegean Sea. The Frankfurt am Main serves the Task Group Leader of Task Group 01 Captain Michael Gemein as the flagship. Task Group 01 has the mandate to contribute to the creation of a situation report for the Greek and Turkish coast guards and the European border protection agency Frontex in the Aegean Sea as part of NATO activity in the Aegean Sea in the context of the refugee crisis . On October 30, 2017, the transfer of contingents from the Lübeck to the Frankfurt am Main took place in the port of Souda on Crete .
Frankfurt am Main at HDW for equipment 2007
Frankfurt am Main next to USS Mesa Verde (LPD-19)
Stern of the Frankfurt am Main
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Commanders
| No. | Surname | Beginning of the term of office | Term expires |
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| 1 | Frigate Captain Torsten Eickriede | May 27, 2002 | January 31, 2005 |
| 2 | Frigate Captain Thomas Fischer | January 31, 2005 | February 1, 2008 |
| 3 | Frigate Captain Stefan Berger | February 1, 2008 | September 14, 2009 |
| 4th | Frigate Captain Heiko Rottmann | September 14, 2009 | September 27, 2012 |
| 5 | Frigate Captain Oliver Winkle | September 27, 2012 | October 7, 2014 |
| 6th | Frigate Captain Andreas Schmekel | October 7, 2014 | October 6, 2016 |
| 7th | Frigate Captain Carsten Kauke | October 6, 2016 | November 21, 2019 |
| 8th | Frigate Captain Hanno Weisensee | November 21, 2019 | - |
Web links
- Official website of the task force provider "Frankfurt am Main"
- Data sheet of the German Navy (PDF; 474 kB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Press and Information Center Marine: Welcome to Wilhelmshaven. Bundeswehr, September 26, 2012, archived from the original on December 10, 2014 ; Retrieved December 5, 2014 .
- ^ Average: property damage on "Frankfurt am Main". Retrieved March 21, 2016 .
- ↑ Press and Information Center Marine: "Frankfurt am Main" and "Ludwigshafen am Rhein" leave their home ports for Operation Sophia. In: Marine. Bundeswehr, January 8, 2016, accessed on January 20, 2016 .
- ↑ BMVg press and information staff: Operation Sophia: task force provider rescues 737 people from distress at sea. Bundeswehr, April 12, 2016, accessed April 19, 2016 .
- ↑ Task force supplier "Frankfurt am Main" sets out for support in the Aegean Sea. October 17, 2017, accessed January 5, 2018 .
- ↑ "Frankfurt takes over baton from Lübeck". November 2, 2017, accessed January 5, 2018 .
- ↑ Change of command on the task force supply "Frankfurt am Main". In: presseportal.de. Marine Press and Information Center, September 30, 2016, accessed October 7, 2016 .