Patrol boat squadron

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Patrol boat squadron

Flag of Austria (state) .svg
active January 20, 1958 to August 1, 2006
Country Flag of Austria.svg Austria
Armed forces Federal Army
Armed forces Land Forces
Branch of service Engineer unit
Type Season
structure Lower Austria

Colonel Brecht

Strength 15 men
Insinuation Pioneer Troop School (PiTS)
Tegetthoff naval barracks Vienna
Anniversaries July 20th Lissa day

The patrol boat squadron was a unit of the Austrian Armed Forces that existed until 2006 , which last consisted of the two patrol boats (PatBo) Lower Austria and Colonel Brecht and was deployed on the Danube .

assignment

During the Cold War , the tasks of the patrol boat squadron, which was part of the engineer force school, consisted mainly of assisting the maritime and river police in controlling ships coming from the Eastern Bloc. These controls were mainly carried out during maneuvers by the Army in order to prevent eavesdropping. The main tasks of the patrol boat squadron were:

  • Ensuring the military presence on the Danube
  • Securing and monitoring in times of crisis such as political tensions in countries neighboring or bordering the Danube
  • Assert the interests of the Republic of Austria by using armed force if necessary
  • Assumption of shipping police tasks in assistance with other authorities such as the shipping police, the executive and customs, including the deployment in disasters.

Boats

The Lower Austria at its mooring in Reichsbrücke .

The patrol boat squadron consisted until the end of the two boats Lower Austria and Colonel Brecht , both of which were used as patrol and push boats and the Lower Austria also as gunboat . The Oberst Brecht as the smaller of the two boats had already been put into service in 1958 and was completely overhauled again from 2002 to 2003. The Lower Austria began its service in 1970 and was the last put into operation patrol boat of the Armed Forces.

crew

Colonel Brecht on the occasion of the naval celebration on the occasion of the naval battle of Lissa .

The crew of the two patrol boats last included:

  • 1 officer
  • 3 NCOs
  • 2 NCOs (in secondary function)
  • 2 batches
  • 7 military servants

Of these, eight soldiers were assigned to service on the Lower Austria and four to Colonel Brecht .

“Only young, fully trained and professional staff are in the squadron. The massive restrictions in the course of the reorganization with 01 04 2003 [ Note: 1 April 2003 is meant ] (elimination of one O and one UO job as well as conversion of two UO jobs into second function jobs) can be done by trained staff from other areas of PiTS are supplemented or intercepted in the event of an emergency and enable the relay to be effective over longer periods of time in the form of a shift. "

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education

In addition to the general basic training, the crew was trained on the one hand in nautical matters and on the other hand in technical matters. The basic training of the recruits included:

  • Basic water driving training
  • General nautical training
  • Special nautical training (role plan)
  • Special technical training for operation and maintenance
  • Training in on-board weapons including sniper shooting at the Inzell shooting range in the Schlögener Schlinge
  • "Boarding" training (boarding, landing and boarding of watercraft)
  • special training in fire fighting

The training for the NCOs included:

  • Army license class II (III) for M-boats
  • Enrollment at the PatBo (PatBo "Lower Austria": approx. 1 year, PatBo "Oberst Brecht": approx. 4 months)
  • VHF inland waterway radio certificate
  • Acquisition of the radar license
  • Acquisition of extensive route knowledge
  • General mech training
  • Training on marine diesel engines
  • Extensive specialist knowledge in the fields of electrical engineering, electronics, pneumatics, hydraulics, heating and sanitary technology

Facilities

The patrol boat squadron was housed in the Tegetthoff naval barracks in Klosterneuburg until it was released; there was also a naval firing range at Inzell .

Abandonment of the relay

In 2006, the patrol boat squadron was discontinued as part of the 2010 army reform and the boats were handed over to the Museum of Military History . The permanently mounted machine gun of Lower Austria had previously been dismantled. The "Austrian Navy Association" takes care of the maintenance through the "Naval Comradeship Admiral Archduke Franz Ferdinand". The Army History Museum is subordinate to the Federal Ministry for National Defense (BMLV) and the patrol boats were formally not scrapped, but only decommissioned. Therefore, the two boats still belong to 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 in the month there once.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tasks of the patrol boat squadron, p. 3 (PDF; 762 kB)
  2. ^ The patrol boats on the BMLV homepage
  3. ↑ Tasks of the patrol boat squadron, p. 10 (PDF; 762 kB)
  4. ↑ Tasks of the patrol boat squadron, p. 13 (PDF; 762 kB)