Karlsruhe (F 212)



Ship class:	F122
Call sign / identifier:	DRAV / F 212
Type ship:	Bremen
Builder:	Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft AG , Kiel (final equipment at Bremer Vulkan AG)
Construction numbers	161/1025
Keel laying:	March 10, 1981
Launch:	January 8, 1982
Commissioning:	April 19, 1984
Decommissioning:	June 16, 2017
Association membership	4th frigate squadron in Wilhelmshaven
For technical data, see: F122

The multi-purpose frigate Karlsruhe of the German Navy is the sixth ship of the Bremen class . She is the fifth ship of the German Navy to be named after the former capital of Baden .

Duties and equipment

During the Adriatic missions in the mid-1990s, the frigate was temporarily equipped with a goalkeeper , an additional anti-aircraft system. The modern RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile missile system has been available since 1995, and since 1998 a new central computer and a new TRS 3D / 32 radar antenna as a replacement for the DA 08 air and sea surveillance antenna.

With the end of the Cold War, the ship's tasks for convoy protection, submarine hunting and general surface sea warfare in the context of national and alliance defense, for which this type of ship was originally designed, have now expanded. Since 1990, orders in crisis prevention and defense have come more and more to the fore. Most recently she was in action for Frontex .

The Karlsruhe was taken out of service at the end of 2016. After more than 33 years of service, during which she covered 784,467.9 nautical miles, she was decommissioned on June 16, 2017 in the Wilhelmshaven naval arsenal.

The Karlsruhe was handed over to the WTD 71 and is to be used for blasting tests. This should contribute to the research and development of more realistic shock calculations, shock simulations and thus to a better design basis for future naval ships. The Karlsruhe will be replaced by the name-giving first ship of the Baden-Württemberg class , which was originally put into service in 2017 but now in 2019.

The ship is in the naval arsenal in Kiel (as of October 2018).

Calls

The Karlsruhe rescues castaways off the Somali coast during a mission in Operation Enduring Freedom, April 2005

The Karlsruhe has participated in a number of foreign missions participated:

08–12 / 1993 Operation Sharp Guard , embargo operation in the Adriatic
02–04 / 1994 Operation Southern Cross , repatriation of the German Somalia Support Association
12/1995-04/1996 Operation Sharp Guard
10 / 2001–02 / 2002 Operation Active Endeavor as part of the fight against terror in the Eastern Mediterranean
06–10 / 2002 Operation Enduring Freedom in the fight against terror based on Djibouti
03-09 / 2005 Operation Enduring Freedom
09 / 2006–03 / 2007 UNIFIL II , UN peacekeeping mission in Lebanon
2008 2. Standing Naval Maritime Group SNMG2 of NATO in the Mediterranean and near east
12 / 2008–02 / 2009 Mission in the Gulf of Aden as part of the EU operation “Atalanta” to combat piracy off the Somali coast
08 / 2009–12 / 2009 Deployment in the Gulf of Aden as part of the EU operation “Atalanta” to combat piracy off the Somali coast
11 / 2012–04 / 2013 Operation in the Gulf of Aden as part of the EU operation “Atalanta” to combat piracy off the Somali coast
03 / 2016–06 / 2016 Mission in the Mediterranean EUNAVFOR MED "Operation Sophia" . Rescue of a total of 663 people from distress at sea.
06 / 2016–09 / 2016 Flagship of COM SNMG 2 . Handover of the function to the Dutch frigate De Ruyter on September 1, 2016. Arrival in Wilhelmshaven after 183 days of deployment on September 16, 2016.