Lower Austria (boat)
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| Command structure | ||
| Federal Ministry for National Defense | ||
| Directly subordinate departments | Academies and schools | |
| Association: | Pioneer Troop School | |
| Unit: | Patrol boat squadron | |
| Ship data | ||
| Draft: | MAIERFORM SA | |
| Launch: | 26th September 1969 | |
| Commissioning: | April 20, 1970 | |
| Decommissioning: | August 1, 2006 | |
| Period of service: | 36 years | |
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Korneuburg shipyard , Korneuburg |
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| Crew: | 9 men:
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| Namesake: | Province of Lower Austria | |
| Technical specifications | ||
| Displacement : | 73 t | |
| Length: | 29.67 m | |
| Width: | 5.41 m | |
| Draft : | 1.1 m | |
| Machinery: | 2 turbo diesels V16 with 810 hp each | |
| Drive: | 2 propellers made of chrome-nickel steel with 3 fixed blades each with a diameter of 95 cm | |
| Design speed: | 41 km / h | |
| Route: | 1700 km | |
| Diesel supply: | 9.3 t | |
| Drinking water tank: | 1.43 t | |
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| The NIEDERÖSTERREICH was taken out of service by the Austrian Armed Forces on August 1, 2006 and handed over to the Army History Museum on November 16, 2006 and into the care of the naval comradeship Admiral Archduke Franz Ferdinand in the ÖMV. | ||
The "Niederösterreich" (A604) is a gunboat designed patrol boat of the Austrian Armed Forces . It was decommissioned in 2006.
history
The Lower Austria in 1970 as the second boat of a planned flotilla of the armed forces on the Danube put into service. However, for budgetary reasons, this association, originally designed for nine ships, was not implemented. The Lower Austria thus remained the last boat that was purchased. The planning was carried out by MAIERFORM SA from Geneva , Switzerland . The boat was finally built in the Korneuburg shipyard .
In addition to Colonel Brecht , Lower Austria was part of the army's patrol boat squadron until 2006 , which was stationed in the Magdeburg barracks in Klosterneuburg and was subordinate to the pioneers . In the course of the 2010 army reform , this was dissolved and Lower Austria was decommissioned. The automatic cannon was then dismantled and the boat handed over to the Museum of Military History . The "Austrian Navy Association" takes care of the maintenance through the "Naval Comradeship Admiral Archduke Franz Ferdinand".
tasks
During the Cold War, the tasks of the patrol boat squadron mainly consisted of supporting the maritime and river police in controlling ships coming from the Eastern Bloc. These controls were mainly carried out during army maneuvers to prevent eavesdropping.
Current status
Since the Army History Museum is subordinate to the Federal Ministry for National Defense (BMLV) and Lower Austria was not formally scrapped, but only decommissioned, it is still part of the armament of the Federal Army. Re-employment is theoretically possible, but unlikely for military and budgetary reasons. The Lower Austria is currently shared with the Colonel Brecht in the shipyard Korneuburg and can be visited there.
literature
- Army History Museum / Military History Institute (ed.): The Army History Museum in the Vienna Arsenal . Verlag Militaria , Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-902551-69-6 , p. 173
Web links
- The patrol boats on the website of the Army History Museum
- The patrol boats on the BMLV website
- Duties of the patrol boat squadron (PDF file; 744 kB)
- Naval Comradeship Admiral Archduke Franz Ferdinand - The historic patrol boats
- The patrol boats on www.doppeladler.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Naval Comradeship Admiral Archduke Franz Ferdinand - The historic patrol boats - Patrol boat "Lower Austria" (A604) ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ www.wien.orf.at
- ↑ Lower Austria in Heimathafen on korneuburg.gv.at, accessed on June 5, 2014
