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The glorious eighteen

The glorious eighteen

Gepostet von | 19 Dec 2022 | , , , | 0

Ferdinand Magellan never wanted to circumnavigate the globe and never did. The voyage he began was completed 500 years ago by the Spaniard Juan Sebastián Elcano. Thanks to Providence, we reached the bay of San Lucar, and of the sixty men who made up the crew when we left the Moluccas, we were only eighteen, and most of them were ill." This is how Antonio Pigafetta, the chronicler of the first circumnavigation 500 years ago, described the arrival of the VICTORIA in the port of Sanlúcar de Barrameda on 6 September 1522, right where the Guadalquivir flows into the Atlantic Ocean....

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Blue helmet corvette "Erfurt" back in Warnemünde - with 230 days at sea under her belt

Blue helmet corvette "Erfurt" back in Warnemünde - with 230 days at sea under her belt

Gepostet von | 16 Dec 2022 | , , , | 1

230 days of absence: Corvette Erfurt back in home port The corvette Erfurt is back in home port after 230 days of absence. Today, Sunday 18 December, the German Navy's last homecoming arrived in its home port. The crew, led by Corvette Captain Dohnke, has completed the approximately 4,000 nautical mile transit from the Levant to the Bay of Mecklenburg and is back in Warnemünde in time for Christmas. The corvette Erfurt originally left Warnemünde in February 2022 and was intended for the mandated deployment under the UN flag. The Russian war of aggression against Ukraine necessitated a change at short notice, so that...

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The Lübeck spirit

The Lübeck spirit

Gepostet von | 16 Dec 2022 | , , , , | 0

Once again, the crew of the frigate Lübeck gave their all for their ship. But the final end is approaching. After 32 years, the Lübeck will soon be decommissioned. She is the last ship of the 122 class, and this also marks the end of an era for the German Navy. Even if all ships of a class look (almost) the same on the outside, each has its own character. As they say in the Royal Navy: same but different. But what characterises the "Lucky Lübeck" and her crew? Particularly since the frigate Augsburg was decommissioned in 2019, the...

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Mobile phone at the helm and WhatsApp on the bridge

Mobile phone at the helm and WhatsApp on the bridge

Gepostet von | 16 Dec 2022 | , , | 1

The 20,000 TEU container freighter "Ever Given", wedged diagonally into the embankment in the Suez Canal with the prominent white inscription of the shipping company EVERGREEN (Taiwan) on the frog-green side of the ship, is still a fond memory for anyone involved in shipping. Less spectacular and also having a much smaller impact on international goods traffic was an accident that occurred on 13 March 2022 to the "Ever Forward", a container ship from Hong Kong with a capacity of 11,850 TEU, which was also unmistakably labelled EVERGREEN, after a missed course change before entering Norfolk/Virginia: it ran squarely into the really sticky silt of the Chesapeake Bay at full speed and was unable to...

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"Powerhouse" for ship recycling

"Powerhouse" for ship recycling

Gepostet von | 15 Dec 2022 | , , , , | 0

German Naval Yards in Kiel and the Cuxhaven-based start-up Leviathan have signed a letter of intent to establish a "powerhouse" for environmentally friendly ship recycling. The aim is to join forces in order to become the "engine of green ship recycling in Europe." The pioneering technology developed by Leviathan can now be offered to shipping companies for the demolition of ships in the large dock of the Kiel shipyard, supported by the existing infrastructure and the excellent labour force of the naval shipyard. The use of cold water technology will make the world's first sustainable and virtually emission-free ship recycling possible. The functioning of the concept was recently honoured with a...

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