Glücksburg (A 1414)
Ship class: | Class 701 C | |
Type ship: | Luneburg | |
Call sign / identifier: | A 1414 / until Nov. 30, 1981: DSFQ from Dec. 1, 1981: DRKD |
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Development / construction yard: | Blohm + Voss / Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft | |
Keel laying: | August 18, 1965 | |
Launch: | May 3, 1966 | |
Commissioning: | July 9, 1968 | |
Association membership | Supply squadron in Wilhelmshaven | |
Data | ||
Displacement: | 3,450 ts (1968) 3,700 ts (1977) |
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Length over all: | 114.3 m | |
Width: | 13.2 m | |
Draft: | 4.0 m | |
Drive: Diesel (Maybach) |
2 × 4,120 kW (2 × 5,600 PS) |
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2 waves with | 2 controllable pitch propellers | |
Speed: | 17 knots | |
Crew: | 99 men as the permanent crew | |
Armament | ||
2 × 40 mm Bofors double mount |
The supply ship Glücksburg was a supply ship of the German Navy from 1968 to 2001 and was named after the town of Glücksburg (Baltic Sea) on the Flensburg Fjord .
The ship
The Glücksburg supplier was the fourth of a total of eight suppliers in the Lüneburg class . As part of the class 701 construction program , the ship was built and put into service on July 9, 1968 with the Hull number A 1414 and the international callsign DSFQ. The Glücksburg was subordinate to the 1st Supply Squadron in Kiel , but was stationed at the base in Olpenitz on the Baltic Sea. In the middle of 1975 there was a change of position to the 2nd supply squadron in the Wilhelmshaven base .
From August 1976 to April 1977 the Glücksburg was extended by 10 m due to increased supply requirements of the fleet and from then on it was run as a class 701 C unit. In 1981 the Glücksburg received the new DRKD callsign due to extensive reorganization of the international callsigns of NATO . In the middle of 1995 the reorganization from boat to ship took place, whereby the post of chief officer was established on board.
On April 1, 1997, it was placed under the subordinate squadron of the destroyer flotilla in Wilhelmshaven. She stayed here until she was decommissioned. On July 1, 2001, the Glücksburg was taken out of service and, with more than 300,000 nautical miles, decommissioned on November 1, 2001.
Until the decision to sell it to Egypt in May 2002, Glücksburg was in the naval arsenal in Wilhelmshaven. Up until the beginning of 2003, extensive conversions, overhauls and repairs were carried out on the ship.
Together with the ammunition transporter Halaib (ex Odenwald ) left Glücksburg in April 2003, now under the Egyptian flag, with a new crew and under its new name Shalatein Wilhelmshaven for the Mediterranean.
Transport capacity
- 1,200 m³ of fuel,
- 200 m³ fresh water,
- 400 t ammunition,
- 1,000 t of supplies
The crest
The coat of arms that adorned Glücksburg is the coat of arms of the Schleswig-Holstein godfather town of Glücksburg (Baltic Sea) . It shows a gold shield with a red grate set upright with 16 square fields, the handle of which points downwards. The grate is glowing. The coat of arms is called "Der Rost des Laurentius ". The simple, expressive coat of arms refers to a Cistercian monastery founded in 1210 whose patron saint was St. Lawrence.
The sister ships
- A1411 Lüneburg ( 1965–1994 )
- A1412 Coburg ( 1965–1991 )
- A1413 Freiburg ( 1966-2003 )
- A1415 Saarburg ( 1966–1994 )
- A1416 Nienburg ( 1966–1998 )
- A1417 Offenburg ( 1966–1993 )
- A1418 Meersburg ( 1966-2004 )
The crew
The usual crew of the ship consisted of 99 soldiers, including:
- 7 officers
- 11 Portepee NCOs
- 26 NCOs
- 55 team ranks
The commanders
In the 35 years of service at Glücksburg , 17 commanders served on board.
No. | Surname | Rank | Period |
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1 | Rudi-Ortwin Dannenberg | Corvette Captain | 07/09/1968 - 04/03/1969 |
2 | Johannes Dohrn | Corvette Captain | 04/04/1969 - 31/03/1971 |
3 | Karl-Friedrich Fendler | Corvette Captain | April 15, 1971 - October 22, 1973 |
4th | Dieter Kraft | Corvette Captain | October 21, 1973 - June 24, 1975 |
5 | Peter Witt | Corvette Captain | June 25, 1975 - September 30, 1975 |
6th | Friedrich-Karl Teichmann | Frigate captain | October 01, 1975 - September 30, 1978 |
7th | Hans-Wilhelm Krökell | Lieutenant Commander , Corvette Captain | 10/01/1978 - 08/27/1981 |
8th | Gerhard Müller | Lieutenant Commander, Corvette Captain | 08/27/1981 - 03/31/1987 |
9 | Werner Escherlor | Corvette Captain | 04/01/1987 - 06/29/1990 |
10 | Jörg-E. Richter | Corvette Captain | June 29, 1990 - October 31, 1991 |
11 | Rolf Gerriets | Lieutenant captain (deputy) | 11/01/1991 - 11/08/1991 |
12 | Ingo Ullrich | Lieutenant captain (deputy) | 11/09/1991 - 11/28/1991 |
13 | Bernd Telschow | Lieutenant Commander, Corvette Captain | 11/29/1991 - 10/4/1994 |
14th | Torsten Eickriede | Lieutenant Commander, Corvette Captain | 04.10.1994 - 18.12.1997 |
15th | Peter Ehring | Frigate captain | 12/18/1997 - 12/02/1998 |
16 | Karsten Logemann | Lieutenant Commander, Corvette Captain | December 2nd, 1998 - January 5th, 2000 |
17th | Wolfgang Telschow | Lieutenant Commander, Corvette Captain | 05.01.2000 - 01.11.2001 |
The former occupation
In 2002, former members of the Glücksburg crew created a website : A1414.net. This group formed in 2007 to the "Bordgemeinschaft Troßschiff Glücksburg ". The on-board community tries to preserve the memory and the history of the ship and hold an annual meeting.
Web links
- Internet presence of the on-board community Troßschiff Glücksburg
- German Naval Museum
- Official website of the German Navy
literature
- Siegfried Breyer, Gerhard Koop: The ships and vehicles of the German Federal Navy 1956-1976 . Bernard & Graefe, Munich 1978. ISBN 3-7637-5155-6 .