Herten (M 1099)

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FRG Naval Ensign
Mine hunting boat Herten
(Class 333)
The HERTEN at the naval base in Kiel
General information
Class: Fast minesweeper class 343 (until 1999)
minehunter class 333 (since 2000)
Optical call sign: M 1099
International callsign: DRFP
Builder: Kröger shipyard , Rendsburg
Launching / baptism: December 21, 1989
Commissioning: March 26, 1991
Decommissioning: June 30, 2016
Technical specifications
Displacement: 680 t
Length over all: 54.40 m
Width over everything: 9.20 m
Draft: 2.50 m (construction)
2.60 m (use)
Total output: 4,080 kW (5,550 PS ) (construction)
4,480 kW (6,090 PS) (short maximum power)
Speed: 12.0 kn (march)
over 18.0 kn (long-term maximum)
Fuel supply: 60 m 3
Crew: up to 45 people
Drive:
  • two MTU 16V 396 TB84 diesel engines, each with 2,040 kW (2,775 hp)
  • two waves
  • two five-blade controllable pitch propellers
    1.90 m in diameter
  • two fin oars
E-machine system:
  • three electric diesel engines MWM with 230 kW (312 PS) each
  • three generators with 160 kVA each

The Herten was a German minehunter of the Kulmbach class (class 333). It was built at the Kröger shipyard in Rendsburg , entered service in 1991 and decommissioned in 2016.

history

The boat was put into service as a class 343 fast minesweeper on March 26, 1991 and placed under the 5th minesweeping squadron in Kappeln-Olpenitz. In 1999/2000 it was converted into a class 333 mine-hunting boat in the Peene shipyard in Wolgast. On December 21, 2005 it was subordinated to the 3rd Minesweeping Squadron, with which it was relocated to the Kiel naval base in 2006. On June 30, 2016, it was decommissioned at the same time as the sister boat Überherrn in the Kiel Naval Arsenal.

1990–1999: Fast minesweeper class 343 in the 5th minesweeper squadron

On September 10, 1990, the on-board briefing began for the first crew, from September 20, the functional verification was carried out. On October 5th, the crew made an inaugural visit to Herten. The first sea voyage with the new boat took place on October 22nd.

The shipyard was handed over to the German Navy on February 26, 1991, and commissioning on March 26.

The boat made its first trip abroad in 1992 to Scotland , Ireland and the Netherlands . When visiting the sponsored city on board from September 11th to September 13th, guests were given gifts, including a coat of arms and a picture of the predecessor boat Jupiter . A plaque in the form of a grating to hold brass plaques with the names and dates of the commanders was also attached on board in front of the commanders' chamber . An identical plaque hangs in the Jupiter Mass in the clubhouse of the Navy Comradeship in Herten.

From June 2nd to June 30th, 1993 the boat took part in a “Training in Foreign Waters (AAG)” which led to St. Petersburg , Riga and Klaipėda . During the visit to the sponsored city on board from September 3rd to 5th, the city officially handed over a sponsorship certificate.

From August 24 to December 19, 1994, the Herten was part of the Standing NATO Force Channel, the forerunner of the Standing NATO Mine Counter Measure Force North and today's SNMCMG 1. As part of this mission, the ports of Constanța , Varna , Istanbul , Piraeus and Visited Tunis . An exercise off Norway and the first visit by German warships to the Black Sea after 1945 were highlights of the trip that year.

The Herten was back in 1995 in the Mediterranean and Black Sea . On the occasion of the visit to the sponsored city on board from August 11th to 13th, a complete set of the coats of arms of all minesweeping squadrons of the German Navy and a showcase for a model of the Herten were handed over to the crew.

During the visit to the sponsored city on board from August 9th to 11th, 1996, the guests were given a "Baltic Sea baptism" by the crew based on the knappenschlag that took place in the sponsored city.

In 1996/1997 he stayed at the Kröger shipyard in Rendsburg. Then the SAGA B was completed in Neustadt / Holstein. When moving back to the home port of Olpenitz, there was a fire in the E-engine room, which could be extinguished by using Halon. When marching back, a maximum speed of 23.5 knots was achieved (still without guns). In the autumn of the same year there was another training trip for officer candidates to Norrköpping in Sweden and to Tallinn .

During the visit to the sponsored city on board from September 12 to 14, 1997, the (new) guests were once again baptized in the Baltic Sea.

In February 1998 there was a short training voyage with a port stay in Copenhagen. We went back to the Mediterranean with ports in Portugal , Spain and Morocco in May and June 1998, and a port in England was also called. On the first weekend in August, the Herten was a guest at the 24th Bremerhaven Festival Week. During the visit, the television station N3 reported live from the ship for half an hour. In August and September, the boat took part in the “Great Maritime Accident” maneuver of the German Navy before it was transferred to the Peene shipyard in Wolgast to be converted to a class 333 minehunter .

1999–2015: Class 333 mine hunter in the 3rd mine sweeping squadron

After completing the conversion to a minehunter, the Herten drove to Helsinki and Casablanca for the fleet internship for officer candidates in May 1999 . As part of the naval ball in Herten, the crew received a place-name sign and in return presented a bow emblem of the 5th mine sweeping squadron.

From August 1 to December 31, 2001, the Herten was part of MCMForSouth and visited the ports of Naples and Souda ( Crete ) , among others .

From October 14th to October 29th, 2002, the Herten took part in Operation Open Spirit with stops in Riga . Immediately afterwards, until November 8, 2002 , the Herten completed a weapons system demonstration in Finland with visits to ports in Hanko and Turku .

From August 29 to August 31, 2003, a delegation from the sponsored city visited the boat. A donation for the acquisition of a stereo system was given to the crew and a node board to the city as gifts.

From April 21 to May 14, 2004, the Herten took part in the Blue Game maneuver with stops in Kristiansand and Oslo and from June 3 to June 25, 2004 in a squadron training with stops in Cork and Newcastle upon Tyne . From August 1 to December 31, 2004, the Herten finally belonged to the Standing NATO Minecountermeasures Force North. The sea phase took place from August 16 to December 14, 2004.

In 2005 the Herten took part in a squadron training (SquadEx) with a port visit in Stettin , in a NATO maneuver in Denmark and in November in another squadron training trip . From December 16 to 18, the crew visited the sponsored city. The city received a node board with an engraving on the Marine camaraderie a retired was cutting gripper presented.

From May 3 to May 19, 2006, the Herten completed a training trip abroad with stops in port in Gdansk and St. Petersburg . After the end of the subsequent repair phase at the end of October 2006, the crew began training in accordance with the deployment and training plan. At the beginning of December she passed the clear survey and then moved to the naval arsenal in Kiel to complete the remaining work of the shipyard program.

The year 2007 was marked by the preparations for a deployment in the Standing NATO Response Force Mine Countermeasure Group 2 from January 2008. Initially, Herten took part in a SQUADEX (association training section) with a focus on mine defense in flowing waters in the waters around Helgoland . In April, she successfully completed damage prevention and combat training at the Marine Damage Defense Training Center in Neustadt in Holstein . May was dominated by intensive preparation for the training and testing section at the Mine Countermeasure Vessels Operational Sea Training in Zeebrugge from the beginning of July. This training phase was also successfully completed. Already at the end of July it was decided, due to constraints, that the crew of the mine-hunting boat Herten would replace the crew of their sister ship, the mine-hunting boat Ueberherrn , in the UNIFIL mission. In October, the Herten took part in the SQUADEX of the 5th minesweeping squadron with a focus on mine defense and sea and air target shooting sections and a port stay in Malmö . In December, NBC defense skills training followed in Kiel .

The year 2008 began with the proof of the NBC defense ability. With the successful review, the last component was added to the training and the proof of operational capability. At the end of January, the crew moved in two contingents with the support of LTG 62 to Cyprus to the Limassol base , where they replaced the overriding crew after four and a half months in use. The crew of the Ueberherrn took over responsibility for the mine hunting boat Herten at home and made it available to the crew of the mine hunting boat Laboe as a training platform, since the Laboe was still in the yard, but the crew had to start training in order to be the successor unit in the summer to take over the tasks in the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon . Contrary to these plans, the occupation of the overlords took over their unit in mid-June. In October and November the Herten took part with other units in the joint SQUADEX of the 3rd and 5th mine sweeping squadrons. In addition to mine defense, the focus of the training was on developing a situation report and defending against asymmetrical threats at sea.

From December 4th to 7th, a 28-person delegation of the crew visited the sponsored city. On Friday, mulled wine was sold at the Herten Christmas market for the benefit of a charitable organization, and a visit to the RAG training mine in Recklinghausen was also on the agenda. On Saturday, the naval ball was celebrated in the rotunda of the glass house in Herten, which marked the 100th anniversary of naval fellowship.

In August 2010, a small delegation attended the ceremony on the occasion of Karl Hildebrandt's 20-year activity as chairman of the Herten naval comradeship and presented a certificate of reminder. The annual visit to the sponsored city took place on board from September 10th to 12th.

On January 12, 2011, the Herten left the home port of Kiel to join the Standing NATO Response Force Mine Countermeasure Group 2 . The Suez Canal , the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden as well as the Persian Gulf were visited and ports in Egypt , Saudi Arabia , Djibouti , Oman and Kuwait were visited. On June 17th, the boat returned to its home port in time for Kiel Week .

In June 2012, the originally planned shipyard layover was postponed at short notice. Instead, the Herten took part with large parts of the crew of the sister boat Passau in the US-BALTOPS maneuver with a port stay in Danzig . Several smaller voyages followed until November, before a layover at the Peene shipyard in Wolgast began in November.

After the shipyard lay at the Peene shipyard in Wolgast, the Herten relocated back to the home base in Kiel at the end of March 2013. The deployment training program for a deployment in one of NATO's permanent mine control units, which was scheduled for the first half of 2014, began. After the individual boat training in April with a weekend stay on the North Sea island of Helgoland, first training followed in May at the Navy's ship safety training center in Neustadt / Holstein, and in June again participation in the US-BALTOPS maneuver, this time with the ports of Rønne ( Bornholm ) and Karlskrona ( Sweden ).

From August 2013: "Mission: Recruitment!"

In June 2013, the Inspector of the Navy decided to use the Herten from August until its decommissioning, which was initially planned for the end of 2014, mainly for recruiting young people. In October and November, a damage to the drive shaft had to be stopped at the shipyard for a short time.

On December 7, 2013 the city and crew celebrated the 21st Marine Ball in Herten. During the ball, the crew was given a 1:50 scale model of the Herten , which the crew wanted to find a place in the town hall of the sponsored city at the next opportunity. The chairman of the Navy Comradeship, Karl Hildebrandt, was awarded the Bundeswehr Cross of Honor in gold for his more than twenty years of commitment to sponsorship .

In 2013, Herten carried out numerous trips for the Navy's Troop Visiting Center as part of the recruitment process. Another focus was on trips for training and information for prospective ship doctors and career advisors. Support for an extensive measurement campaign as part of a research project on the electrochemical underwater signature took place in parallel. During the “ Kiel Week ” and during other trips, groups from business, politics and the public were shown the tasks of the Navy and the special features of living and working on a boat of the German Navy. The highlights of the year were participation in the celebrations for the 200th anniversary of the Norwegian Navy in Bergen from April 11-13, as well as the first visit by a naval unit to the “ Kappelner Hering Days ” in several years.

At the end of July 2014, the Inspector General of the Bundeswehr approved a submission by the Inspector of the Navy to adjust the plan for decommissioning. According to this, the mine hunting boats Herten and Überherrn should remain in service until December 31, 2016 in order to be available to the Navy for recruiting, basic training and public relations work and thus relieve the units required for operations and operational training.

2016 decommissioned

At the end of 2015, the Herten was taken out of service. On February 10, 2016, the last commander was relieved of his duties; the ship's technical officer was commissioned to perform the duties, who also decommissioned the Kiel naval arsenal on June 30, 2016.

Eight of the ten former commanders were present for the decommissioning, as well as a large delegation from the sponsored city and numerous former crew members. The ship's bell, a coat of arms and a name tag as well as the sponsorship certificate and the last official flag were handed over to the sponsored city. All commanders and other participants in the ceremony signed the guest book, which had been kept since it was commissioned, before it was handed over to the Herten Navy Comradeship for safekeeping.

Commanders

  • December 1, 1989 to June 30, 1992 - KptLt Thies-Peter Warkentin
  • July 1, 1992 to September 25, 1995 - KptLt Volker Richter
  • September 26, 1995 to September 23, 1997 - KptLt Stefan Riewesell
  • September 24, 1997 to March 30, 1999 - KptLt Marco Geiser
  • March 31, 1999 to September 12, 2002 - KptLt Matthias Seipel
  • September 13, 2002 to September 29, 2006 - KKpt René Brehmer
  • September 29, 2006 to September 22, 2008 - KptLt Michael Sinke
  • September 22, 2008 to October 12, 2011 - KptLt Thomas Joseph
  • October 12, 2011 to November 28, 2014 - KptLt Olaf Hoffmann
  • November 28, 2014 to February 10, 2016 - KptLt Philipp Palm
  • February 10, 2016 to June 30, 2016 - OLtzS Paul Saborowski (technical officer)

Nock and bow coat of arms

The coat of arms of the city of Herten hung next to the name tag in both lobes of the Herten . On both sides of the bow hung the coat of arms of the 3rd mine sweeping squadron. The coat of arms of the 3rd minesweeping squadron is the old coat of arms of the 3rd clearing flotilla Pillau / East Prussia, a former association of the Navy.

  • Coat of arms of the city of Herten

  • Bow coat of arms of the 3rd Mine Sweeping Squadron

Sponsored city

The sponsored city of the boat was Herten . Going back to a council resolution of the city of Herten on January 20, 1961, the city maintained a sponsorship with the fast minesweeper Jupiter until it was decommissioned on December 31, 1989 . This was continued seamlessly with the mine hunting boat Herten and documented by the naming of the boat by the wife of the mayor, Ms. Karin Wessel on December 21, 1989.

The Herten-based naval comradeship looks back on more than fifty years of friendship with Navy boats. Every year a large part of the crew visited the city for the naval ball (beginning of December). Only in 1994 the naval ball had to be canceled because the Herten was abroad at the time and therefore no delegation could be sent. In 2001, the naval ball was brought forward to May 5th, as the Herten was back abroad in December.

Each crew member who first visited the sister city, was under the ball for miners beaten and received a fixed foster family, who hosted him in all further visits to some extent far beyond the period of service on board also. A delegation from the city of more than fifty people visited the boat for the sponsored city tour in late summer.

On August 8, 1962, the sponsored town handed over a miner's lamp to the commandant and crew of the fast minesweeper Jupiter . This lamp was on board the Herten until it was decommissioned . As part of the decommissioning, it was handed over to the last engine master as a long-term sponsor city representative for safekeeping. Every commanding officer traditionally received a Steigerhäckel from the sponsored city on the occasion of taking over command .

literature

  • Hendrik Killi (2002): Mine sweeper for the German Navy. Hamburg, Berlin, Bonn: Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft mbH / Verlag ES Mittler & Sohn GmbH.
  • Siegfried Breyer, Gerhard Koop (1996): The ships, vehicles and aircraft of the German Navy from 1956 to the present day. Bonn: Bernhard & Graefe Verlag GmbH.
  • Hannes Ewerth, Peter Neumann (2006): German Navy. The German Navy. Hamburg, Berlin, Bonn: Publishing house ES Mittler & Sohn GmbH.
  • Press and Information Center Marine (Ed.) (2006): The fleet. 9th edition. Glücksburg: Marine press and information center.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Newspaper clipping from an unknown newspaper from October 9, 1990
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Hendrik Killi (2002): Minesweeper of the German Navy. , Page 138
  3. ^ Westfälische Allgemeine Zeitung of October 8, 1990
  4. ^ Westfälische Allgemeine Zeitung of October 9, 1990
  5. ^ Hertener Allgemeine Zeitung of September 18, 1992
  6. ^ Westfälische Allgemeine Zeitung of September 16, 1992
  7. ↑ a b c d Collection of on-board stamps
  8. ^ Westfälische Allgemeine Zeitung of September 7, 1993
  9. ^ Westfälische Allgemeine Zeitung and Hertener Allgemeine Zeitung of August 16, 1995
  10. ^ Westfälische Allgemeine Zeitung and Hertener Allgemeine Zeitung of August 16, 1995
  11. ^ Westfälische Allgemeine Zeitung of August 13, 1996 and Hertener Allgemeine Zeitung of August 14, 1996
  12. ↑ Westfälische Allgemeine Zeitung of September 16, 1997
  13. ↑ Bremerhaven (?) City gazette from August 4, 1998
  14. ↑ Westfälische Allgemeine Zeitung of August 4, 1998
  15. ↑ Westfälische Allgemeine Zeitung of December 13, 1999
  16. ↑ Hertener Allgemeine Zeitung from December 19, 1999
  17. ↑ Hertener Allgemeine Zeitung from December 19, 2005
  18. ↑ a b c Personal notes / memories Michael Sinke (Commandant from September 29, 2006 to September 22, 2008)
  19. ↑ "Hüllentausch" at UNIFIL - crew on foreign boat , website of the German Navy. Retrieved December 21, 2013.
  20. ^ Return with home pennant , website of the German Navy. Retrieved December 21, 2013.
  21. ↑ Seafarers anchor in Herten , Marl current website. Retrieved December 26, 2013.
  22. ↑ Karl Hildebrandt has been chairman of MK Herten / Westerholt for 20 years ( memento of the original from March 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Blog of the German Navy Federation. Retrieved December 26, 2013.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / deutscher-marinebund.blog.de
  23. ↑ Mine Hunting Boat HERTEN joins Mine Defense Association , website of the German Navy. Retrieved December 21, 2013.
  24. ^ Between mission and recovery , website of the German Navy. Retrieved December 21, 2013.
  25. ↑ Mine hunting boat "Herten" back from the Arabian Sea , website press portal. Retrieved December 21, 2013.
  26. ↑ For the 40th time Baltic Sea Maneuver US BALTOPS , website of the German Navy. Retrieved December 21, 2013.
  27. ↑ a b c d Personal notes / memories of Olaf Hoffmann (commandant from October 12, 2011 to November 28, 2014)
  28. ↑ MarineForum magazine 12/2013, pages 18-19
  29. ↑ Marineball: A glittering farewell party , website of the Hertener Allgemeine. Retrieved December 26, 2013.
  30. ↑ Hertener Allgemeine Zeitung of July 7, 2016
  31. ↑ Westfälische Allgemeine Zeitung of December 19, 2005
  32. ↑ Hertener Allgemeine Zeitung of December 9, 1991
  33. ^ Westfälische Allgemeine Zeitung of December 24, 1989
  34. ↑ Westfälische Allgemeine Zeitung of August 16, 1995
  35. ↑ Westfälische Allgemeine Zeitung of May 7, 2001