Hesse (D 184)

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Hesse
Hamburg class
Destroyer Hessen during the NATO exercise "Northern Wedding 86"
Destroyer Hessen during the NATO exercise "Northern Wedding 86"
Overview
Type destroyer
Shipyard

HC Stülcken son

Keel laying February 15, 1961
Launch May 4th 1963
Namesake Hesse
Commissioning October 8, 1968
Decommissioning March 29, 1990
home port Wilhelmshaven
Whereabouts Sold for demolition on September 8, 1991 via VEBEG
Technical specifications
please refer

Class 101 / 101A

The destroyer Hessen was a class 101 / 101A ( Hamburg class) warship of the German Navy and was in service from 1968 to 1990.

The Hessen was named after the state of Hesse .

The traditional name Hessen was passed on to the third frigate of the Sachsen class .

history

The Hessen was launched on May 4, 1963 as the fourth and last class 101 ship (formerly destroyer 55 ). From October 17 to 23, 1966, the destroyer undertook shipyard test drives in the North Sea and the Skagerrak . The acceptance run that began on December 11, 1966 revealed problems with the drive system. The couplings between the turbines and the gearboxes had to be improved, which is why the procurement office refused to take over the ship. The Hessen was initially at the Naval Arsenal Wilhelmshaven launched , eliminating the shortcomings. It was not until October 8, 1968, more than ten years after the appointment, that the Hessen came into service with the Navy. She belonged to the 2nd destroyer squadron in Wilhelmshaven. Like the other class 101 ships, she was named after a state. At the same time, the name is also the traditional name of the Imperial Navy . A ship of the line of the Braunschweig class was named Hessen .

On December 2, 1971, there was an explosion and subsequent fire in an electrical works. Two crew members were killed.

In 1974 a so-called " red cell" was uncovered on board, which caused great excitement among the ship's command and a. had distributed the illegal newspaper "Hessentorpedo".

The conversion of the destroyer to the guided missile destroyer began on November 1, 1974. Tower C was removed and the FK system MM38 Exocet installed. With the final acceptance on February 22, 1976, the class name was changed to 101A .

The ship was decommissioned on March 29, 1990 and sold on September 8, 1991 via Vebeg to Eckart in Hamburg for demolition. The ship was scrapped in Portugal.

literature

  • Zvonimir Freivogel: The destroyers of the HAMBURG class - the last of their kind . Marine-Arsenal, special issue Volume 21, Podzun-Pallas-Verlag, Wölfersheim-Berstadt 2000, ISBN 3-7909-0713-8
  • Siegfried Breyer, Gerhard Koop: The ships, vehicles and planes of the German Navy 1956 until today . Munich 1996, ISBN 3-7637-5950-6 .
  • Wolfgang Harnack: The destroyer flotilla of the German Navy from 1958 until today . Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-7822-0816-1

Web links

Commons : Hessen (D 184)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Hildebrand, Hans H. / Albert Röhr / Hans-Otto Steinmetz: The German warships . Biographies - a mirror of naval history from 1815 to the present . tape 4 : Ship biographies from Greif to Kaiser . Mundus Verlag, Ratingen, S. 153 (Licensed edition by Koehler's Verlagsgesellschaft, Hamburg, approx. 1990).