Cologne (F 211)

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Cologne (F 211)
Bremen class
Frigate Cologne in 1986
Frigate Cologne in 1986
Overview
Shipyard

Blohm + Voss AG , Hamburg (final equipment at Bremer Vulkan AG)

Keel laying June 16, 1980
Launch May 29, 1981
Namesake city ​​Cologne
Commissioning October 19, 1984
Decommissioning July 31, 2012
home port Wilhelmshaven
Technical specifications
See: Main page of the class
Callsign / identifier

DRAU / F 211

Insinuation

4th frigate squadron

motto

"Cologne is coming!"

DEU Koeln COA.svg

The Köln was an F122 type frigate of the German Navy , also a Bremen class. She was the fifth unit of this class and the fifth ship named Köln ( Cöln ) in a German Navy. Predecessors in its name were two small cruisers of the Imperial Navy from 1909 and 1916 , the light cruiser Cologne of the Reich and later Navy and the frigate Cologne (F 220) of the German Navy.

history

On June 16, 1980 Blohm + Voss AG on down Kiel , which took place Launched on May 29, 1981. The commissioning took place on 19 October 1984th

At the beginning of July 1988, the Cologne was with a NATO fleet off the Scottish coast, which was involved in the search and rescue of the victims of the Piper Alpha oil platform, which was destroyed in a serious fire .

From January to March 1991, the Cologne was the flagship of the German naval association sent to reinforce the Mediterranean during the Second Gulf War .

From January to April 1994, the Cologne was the flagship of Task Group 500.02 as part of Operation Southern Cross , which operated off the coast of Somalia .

On September 7, 2000, the Cologne sailed into the Mediterranean Sea to form the STANAVFORMED together with the ships Caron , York , Luigi Durand de la Penne , Van Amstel , Spetsai , Trakya and Numancia . Various ports in NATO member countries as well as Tunis were called. Originally a passage through the Suez Canal into the Red Sea with a visit to Sharm El Sheikh (Egypt) was planned. However, this as well as the call to Haifa (Israel) was canceled; The reason for this was the civil war-like conditions. On December 17, 2000, the frigate returned to Wilhelmshaven after having covered 18,734.5 nautical miles .

On January 2, 2002, the frigate Cologne left Wilhelmshaven and was thus part of the starting contingent for Operation Enduring Freedom . It stayed in use for 6½ months before returning to Wilhelmshaven in mid-July.

From April to October 2007 the frigate was used as part of Operation Enduring Freedom off the Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula, where it replaced its sister ship Bremen as part of Task Force 150 .

On August 30, 2010, the Cologne sailed to the Horn of Africa as part of Operation Atalanta to replace the frigate Schleswig-Holstein and returned to Wilhelmshaven on December 10, 2010.

On August 29, 2011, the Cologne ran out for the last time and took part in Operation Atalanta for the second time. As part of Task Force 465, the ship and crew were able to prevent multiple attacks by pirates. In total, the frigate Cologne arrested 42 Somalis suspected of piracy during this period of operation. A particular challenge was the liberation of two Yemeni fishermen, whose dhow "Al Jabal" had been kidnapped by 19 Somalis.

She returned to Wilhelmshaven on December 9, 2011.

It was taken out of service on February 1, 2012 and towed to the Naval Arsenal in Wilhelmshaven at the beginning of May to prepare for decommissioning. The decommissioning took place on July 31, 2012. With a tender of August 24, 2015, the Cologne was offered for sale for scrapping.

On October 10, 2016, the former Cologne was towed to a scrapping yard in the Netherlands. In Kampen an der IJssel, it was the first unit in the Bremen class to be scrapped.

Commanders

No. Surname Beginning of the term of office Term expires
1. Frigate Captain Klaus Kinast

(Building instruction: 03/26/1984 - 10/18/1984)

October 19, 1984 September 25, 1987
2. Frigate Captain Hans-Christian Rips September 25, 1987 February 22, 1990
3. Corvette Captain / Frigate Captain Hellwig Springborn February 22, 1990 August 30, 1993
4th Frigate Captain Hans-Joachim Rutz August 30, 1993 March 30, 1995
5. Frigate Captain Thomas Miller March 30, 1995 October 25, 1996
6th Frigate Captain Dirk Geister March 31, 1996 March 31, 1999
7th Frigate Captain Maximilian Stein March 31, 1999 September 27, 2001
8th. Frigate Captain Thomas Schütze September 27, 2001 December 14, 2004
9. Frigate Captain Michael Hödt December 14, 2004 December 1, 2006
10. Frigate Captain Uwe Maass December 1, 2006 June 18, 2009
11. Frigate Captain Christopher Karow June 18, 2009 November 13, 2011
12. Frigate Captain Kurt Leonards November 13, 2011 Decommissioning

Web links

Commons : Köln (F 211)  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Flammenhölle in the North Sea . Radio Bremen Chronicle As time goes by , July 6, 2008@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.radiobremen.de
  2. ^ Wilhelmshavener Zeitung , March 12, 1991
  3. ↑ News. ( Memento from April 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) marine.de, April 10, 2007
  4. ^ Wilhelmshavener Zeitung , December 11, 2010.
  5. ↑ Die Rheinpfalz , title page, August 30, 2011
  6. ↑ Joy and sorrow are close together . In: Wilhelmshavener Zeitung , December 10, 2011, p. 9.
  7. ↑ "Cologne" no longer runs . In: Wilhelmshavener Zeitung . February 1, 2012, p. 1 u. 8 .
  8. ↑ Sascha Jonack & Kurt Leonards: 33 times around the globe in 27 years. In: marine.de. Bundeswehr, August 1, 2012, accessed on August 14, 2014 .
  9. ↑ Announcement - 1541490.001. (PDF) Frigate class 122/05 “ex Cologne”. (No longer available online.) VEBEG, August 24, 2015, archived from the original on August 26, 2015 ; accessed on August 26, 2015 .
  10. ^ Wilhelmshavener Zeitung . October 14, 2016, p. 8 .
  11. ↑ Commanders list of the frigate Köln-F 211. Accessed on March 23, 2017 .