School squadron Baltic Sea
The Ostsee school squadron was a training association of the German Navy consisting of several school boats that existed from 1956 to 1958. It was subordinate to the Kiel Naval Base Command and must be distinguished from the school squadron that existed from 1956 to 1963 and was called the 1st Escort Squadron until June 30, 1960 .
The Baltic Sea School Squadron was set up on June 1, 1956 and was one of the first floating units in the German Navy. With the dissolution of the maritime border protection and its largely closed transfer to the Federal Navy, the Baltic Sea School Squadron took over nine school boats and tenders together with their crews on July 1, 1956, as part of a ceremonial handover in Neustadt in Holstein .
This included six former British motor mine sweepers , which had formed the 3rd watch boat flotilla in Kiel as large watch boats in the maritime border protection . Then there were the escort ships Eider and Trave and the sailing school boat Nordwind .
While the Eider , Trave and Nordwind kept their names, the watch boats previously known as W 7 - W 12 were renamed. The W 7 , W 8 and W 10 became the school boats FM 1 , FM 2 and FM 3 , which were intended for the training support of the naval telecommunications school. W 12 , W 11 and W 9 were given the designations UW 1 , UW 2 and UW 3 and were used for the naval underwater weapons school. As school boats, the Eider and Trave undertook the first foreign training trips for officer candidates after the establishment of the new navy.
On September 30, 1958, the Baltic Sea School Squadron was disbanded. The boats were given to various other training institutions. Eider and Trave came to the 1st Escort Squadron, Nordwind to the Mürwik Naval School . FM 1 and FM 2 were subordinated to the 2nd Naval Training Battalion in Glücksburg -Meierwik, FM 3 to the Naval Telecommunications School in Flensburg . After a conversion, UW 1 remained the school boat of the marine underwater weapons school in Eckernförde , as did UW 2 and UW 3 , which were later assigned to the ship safety teaching group as diving school boats as TM 2 and TM 1 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Federal Archives-Military Archives Stock BM 30
- ^ Fritz Poske . The sea border protection 1951–1956. Reminder - report - documentation . Koblenz / Bonn 1982. ISBN 3-7637-5410-5
- ^ A b Siegfried Breyer, Gerhard Koop; The ships and vehicles of the German Federal Navy 1956 - 1976; Munich 1978; ISBN 3-7637-5155-6
- ↑ Federal Archives-Military Archives Stock BM 1