Otto von Guericke (ship)

Otto von Guericke (A 46)
Piast class
Typ ship Piast of the Polish Navy
Overview
Type	Salvage ship
Shipyard	Stocznia Północna (North Shipyard), Gdańsk
Keel laying	1974
Launch	1975
Namesake	Otto von Guericke
period of service	Fourth flotilla
Commissioning	December 29, 1976
Decommissioning	October 2, 1990
home port	Warnemünde
Whereabouts	Uruguayan Navy
2. Period of service
Commissioning	December 18, 1991 as ROU 26 Vanguardia
home port	Montevideo
Technical specifications
displacement	1,561  ts
length	72.6 meters
width	12.0 meters
Draft	4.2 meters
crew	50
drive	2 Zgoda 6TD 48 diesel engines with 2,640 kW 2 shafts with controllable pitch propellers
speed	16  kn
Range	5,000  nm
Armament	Foundations for four 25mm / L70 double mounts

The Otto von Guericke (A 46) was a salvage ship that was used from 1976 to 1990 for the Volksmarine . Since 1992 the ship has been in service as ROU 26 Vanguardia for the Uruguayan Navy .

draft

The Otto von Guericke was the hull number 3 on the Northern Shipyard in Gdansk built Piast class (Project 570), a salvage ship based on the also in Poland for the Soviet Navy built survey vessels of the Moma class (Project 861).

The ship's equipment consisted of fire monitors , external bilge systems , workshops , a towing device , a decompression chamber and a detachable diving bell on the port side . From the Polish sister ships Piast and Lech , the Otto von Guericke only differed in terms of different radar antennas .

commitment

People's Navy

In 1979 and 1981 Otto von Guericke accompanied the training ship Wilhelm Pieck on her Mediterranean voyages. Further deployments were made with other support vessels of the Warsaw Pact or as part of squadron trips into the North Atlantic .

The Otto von Guericke was not taken over by the German Navy and was initially launched . In October 1991 she was sold to the Uruguayan Navy via VEBEG .

Uruguayan Navy

At the Neptun shipyard , the ship was overhauled before reactivation and put into service on December 18, 1991 in Rostock as ROU 26 Vanguardia .

Vanguardia (right)

The Vanguardia is used as a supply ship for the Base Científica Antártica Artigas on King George Island and reached the station on January 10, 1993 for the first time. With her weather station she also collects meteorological and iceberg data.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} ROU is the abbreviation for República Oriental del Uruguay and the name prefix of Uruguayan ships
2. ↑ http://www.armada.mil.uy/comflo/fuema/divse/rou26/historia.html

literature

• Hans Mehl / Knut Schäfer / Ulrich Israel: From the coastal defense boat to the rocket ship , Military Publishing House of the German Democratic Republic, Berlin 1986, ISBN 3-327-00075-1
• Siegfried Breyer / Peter Joachim Lapp: The People's Navy of the GDR , Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Koblenz 1985, ISBN 3-7637-5423-7