Lütjens (D 185)

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Lütjens
D185 Lütjens.jpg
Ship data
flag GermanyGermany (naval war flag) Germany
Ship type destroyer
class Class 103
( Lütjens class)
Shipyard Bath Iron Works , Bath
Build number 351
Launch August 11, 1967
Commissioning March 22, 1969
Decommissioning December 18, 2003
Whereabouts scrapped from August 2012 in a scrapping yard in Aliağa
Ship dimensions and crew
length
134.48 m ( Lüa )
width 14.35 m
Draft Max. 6.1 m
displacement 4,162 t
 
crew 334 men
Machine system
machine 4 high pressure boilers
2 steam turbines
Machine
performanceTemplate: Infobox ship / maintenance / service format
51,150 kW (69,545 hp)
Top
speed
35 kn (65 km / h)
propeller 2
Armament
Sensors

The missiles - destroyer Lütjens was a warship of the German Navy and the lead ship of the class 103 . The ship was named after the German admiral Günther Lütjens , who went down with the battleship Bismarck in World War II .

history

Under the hull number 351 was made at the shipyard of the Bath Iron Works in Bath (Maine) in the US on March 1, 1966, the keel laying of the missiles -Zerstörers DDG 28 , a modification of the American Charles F. Adams class . Gerda Lütjens, the daughter of its namesake, christened the ship before the launch on August 11, 1967 the name Lütjens . The baptismal address was given by Karl Carstens , the then State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Defense . The completed ship was first moved to Boston and then handed over to the German Navy .

At the end of the transatlantic crossing, the ship ran aground off Friedrichsort in the Kiel Fjord - because the navigation after the test drives in American waters was still calculated in nautical thread , not in meters . The sonar dome on the keel of the ship was destroyed.

Under the command of frigate captain Ansgar Bethge , the Lütjens was put into service with the 1st destroyer squadron in Kiel on March 22, 1969 . It was assigned the identifier D 185 and the radio call sign DBYB. On December 1, 1981, the radio call sign was changed to DRAE.

From August 1976 to August 1977 a modernization to the class 103A took place. Another conversion and the equipment for the class 103B destroyer took place from April 1985 to March 1986. At the beginning of 1995 the RAM starters came on board.

On September 14, 2001, three days after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 in the USA , the German destroyer Lütjens passed the USS Winston S. Churchill and paid homage to the Americans with a front . In addition, the Stars and Stripes were raised to half-mast and a banner with the words We stand by you was shown.

Calls

The destroyer was in the service of the German Navy and German Navy for 34 years and covered over 800,000 nautical miles during this time  . The ship took part in numerous exercises within the framework of NATO , including several times as part of the permanent NATO operational units in the Atlantic ( STANAVFORLANT ) and in the Mediterranean ( STANAVFORMED ) as well as in Operation Active Endeavor .

Whereabouts

The Lütjens demilitarized in Wilhelmshaven in 2012; the location of the blast attempts can be clearly seen

In the naval arsenal Wilhelmshaven , the Lütjens was decommissioned on December 18, 2003 and then hung up there .

On 16 March 2006, was Lütjens the Bundeswehr Technical Center 71 in Eckernförde passed, they for Ansprengversuche in the Baltic Sea used. From December 15, 2006 she returned to the Naval Arsenal in Wilhelmshaven .

On August 24, 2011, the now demilitarized destroyer was tendered for scrapping by the Vebeg ; it was sold for 1.255 million euros . On June 19, 2012, the Lütjens left Wilhelmshaven in tow towards Aliağa on the Turkish Aegean coast , where it was scrapped in a scrapping yard from the beginning of August 2012 .

Sister ships

  • Mölders , in service from April 13, 1968 to May 28, 2003.
  • Rommel , in service from May 2, 1970 to June 30, 1999.

Commanders

Commanders
from to Rank commander
March 22, 1969 02/17/1970 Frigate captain Ansgar Bethge
02/18/1970 10/08/1972 Sea captain Dieter Ehrhard
10/09/1972 09/30/1974 Sea captain Egon Meyer
October 01, 1974 March 31, 1977 Sea captain Gerhard Bing
04/01/1977 March 31, 1980 Sea captain Klaus Dingeldein
04/01/1980 01/08/1981 Frigate captain Wilhelm Reiss
01/09/1981 06/30/1981 Corvette Captain Wulf Diercks [a]
07/01/1981 09/30/1983 Sea captain Hans-Rudolf Boehmer
10/01/1983 December 17, 1985 Sea captain Joachim Kleemann
December 18, 1985 06/27/1988 Frigate captain Gerd Strasbourg
06/28/1988 March 28, 1990 Frigate captain Jörg Owen
March 29, 1990 09/17/1992 Frigate captain Wolfgang Hügelmann
09/18/1992 12/18/1994 Frigate captain Axel Schimpf
12/18/1994 12/18/1996 Frigate captain Reinhard Wollowski
12/18/1996 07/01/1998 Frigate captain Fritz W. Lamsbach
07/01/1998 04/20/2001 Frigate captain Günther Fritz
04/20/2001 12/18/2003 Frigate captain Michael Wolfgang Meding

[a] charged with carrying out the business

literature

Web links

Commons : Lütjens (D 185)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Henning Prüter: The last docking. d-185.com, accessed January 2, 2014 .
  2. Cornelia Uebel and Yüksel Ugurlu: Germany's Resterampe - When the state clears out. ( Memento from April 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Das Erste, April 27, 2013.
  3. Last course: scrapping yard . In: Wilhelmshavener Zeitung of June 20, 2012, p. 3