Lütjens (D 185)
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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
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.
Lütjens and Mölders in front of the shipyard in Bath in 1969
Luetjens (1988)
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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
- Wolfgang Harnack: The destroyer flotilla of the German Navy from 1958 until today . Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft , Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-7822-0816-1
- Gerhard Koop / Siegfried Breyer: The ships, vehicles and planes of the German Navy 1956 until today . Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-7637-5950-6 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Henning Prüter: The last docking. d-185.com, accessed January 2, 2014 .
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Last course: scrapping yard . In: Wilhelmshavener Zeitung of June 20, 2012, p. 3