Category: Armed Forces

South Korean Navy in Hamburg

Visit by two South Korean naval vessels to the Hanseatic city The training ship ROKS HANSANDO and the supply vessel ROKS HWACHEON are visiting the Hanseatic city for the first time and will be offering Open Ship from 29 to 31 October 2023. Arriving from Halifax/Canada, both South Korean navy ships will moor at the Überseebrücke at around 10.00 a.m. on Sunday, 29 October 2023. The ROKS HANSANDO is a training ship that was commissioned in 2021, is 142 metres long and 25 metres wide and has hybrid propulsion. In addition to a regular crew of around 120, there can be up to 300 student officers on board. All cadets are in their third...

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Naval association calls for more appreciation for veterans

At the 112th Congress of Representatives of the German Naval Association in Hamelin, around 200 delegates called on the German government to establish a Veterans' Day. In the years 2000 -2009 alone, around 112 soldiers died and 72,381 were injured in the line of duty. Soldiers serve the Federal Republic of Germany faithfully. They bravely defend the law and freedom of the German people and, as the figures quoted show, often at the cost of their physical integrity or even their lives. Soldiers have a special relationship of loyalty to our state and are exposed to increasing burdens and dangers. For this reason, service in the...

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Benefit concert in Bremen Cathedral

The Wilhelmshaven Naval Music Corps plays for the campaign "Sorgenkinder in Bundeswehrfamilien" The Bremen State Command is delighted to be able to organise a very special concert event. Together with the Bundeswehr-Sozialwerk e.V., there will be a charity concert on 2 November 2023 in St. Peter's Cathedral in Bremen. The Wilhelmshaven Naval Music Corps will be performing under the direction of Frigate Captain Matthias Prock. The proceeds from the evening will be donated to the Bundeswehr Social Organisation's "Sorgenkinder in Bundeswehrfamilien" campaign. The patron of the event is Bremen's mayor Dr Andreas Bovenschulte. Orchestra conductor Matthias Prock promises friends of church music an incomparable evening: with his orchestra, he wants to capture the special magic of the cathedral...

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The "LI" of U 96 - now Friedrich Grade has disembarked after all!

The longest-lived member of the Naval Officers' Association, retired Captain Friedrich Grade (Crew 35), passed away on Friday, 13 October 2023 in Bornheim am Rhein, just north of Bonn, in the Beethoven retirement home at the age of 107. The cult film "Das Boot" made U 96 and its naval officer - or chief engineer, as it was known at the time - famous. Friedrich Grade was the last survivor of the submarine U 96, which sank 29 ships and damaged four on eleven voyages during the Second World War. As an LI, he took part in seven voyages up until 1941 and recorded his experiences in a secret...

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First deployment of frigate F125: "Baden-Württemberg" ordered to UNIFIL

Aus einer Pressemitteilung des PIZ Marine beim Marinekommando Rostock: Am Freitag, den 20. Oktober 2023 um 10 Uhr, wird die Fregatte "Baden-Württemberg" als erstes Schiff ihrer Klasse zu einem Einsatz auslaufen. Mit der Besatzung "Delta" wird sie ihren Heimathafen Wilhelmshaven verlassen, um am mandatierten Auslandseinsatz UNIFIL (United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon) vor der libanesischen Küste teilzunehmen. Unter dem Kommando von Fregattenkapitän Tilmann von der Lühe (44) wird sich die Besatzung zunächst auf den Transit nach Limassol (Zypern) begeben. Von hier aus wird das Schiff bis Mitte Januar 2024 [ds_preview] vor der libanesischen Küste bei der Seeraumüberwachung und der...

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