Class 422

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Fleet Service Boat Alster from coastal defense ship Wismar the People's Navy captured from

Class 422 is the internal marine name for the former fleet service boats Alster , Oker and Oste of the German Navy . During the Cold War , the task of these vehicles was the optical and electronic reconnaissance of the naval forces of the Warsaw Pact in the Baltic Sea region . Although all three ships had the class designation "422", the Oste differed considerably from the Alster and Oker , which were largely identical to one another. At the end of the 1980s, all vehicles were replaced by new class 423 vehicles of the same name .

The units

Oste

The Oste (A 52) was the former salvage tug Puddefjord of the Kriegsmarine . It was put into service on January 21, 1957 as a class 419 tender for the 1st minesweeping squadron and from May 14, 1964, it was subordinated to the 3rd minesweeping squadron. The Oste was decommissioned from April 15, 1965 to August 8, 1967 for the conversion to a fleet service boat. It was then used for surveillance and reconnaissance tasks. In 1987, after retiring from service for the Navy, it was sold and initially intended to be converted into a restaurant. When the project failed, it was scrapped in 1990.

Alster
Oker (A53) on the stormy Baltic Sea (February 1979)

The Alster (A 50) was the former side trawler Mellum , which was used as a fleet service boat after reconstruction in 1971. After serving in the German Navy until 1988, the ship was sold to Turkey in 1989. Here it was also used for surveillance and reconnaissance under the name Yunus (A590).

Oker

The Oker (A 53) was the former side trawler Hoheweg , which had been converted in 1972 for reconnaissance tasks. The ship was sold to Greece in 1988, where it was used under the name Hermis (A373) for the same tasks as in Germany. In 2002 the ship was taken out of active service and scrapped.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gerhard Koop / Siegfried Breyer: The ships, vehicles and aircraft of the German Navy from 1956 to today . Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Bonn 1996, ISBN 3-7637-5950-6 , p. 312 .
  2. ↑ a b c The ship-based telecommunications and electronic reconnaissance . Private website manfred-bischoff.de. Retrieved October 26, 2013.
  3. ^ Johannes Berthold Sander-Nagashima: The Federal Navy 1950 to 1972: Concept and Structure (= Security Policy and Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Germany. Volume 4). Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-486-57972-7 , p. 577.
  4. ↑ K. Paizēs-Paradelēs: Hellenic Warships 1829-2001 . Society for the Study of Greek History, Athens 2002, ISBN 960-8172-14-4 , p. 77 (English).