bundesmarine

Deutschland (1960)

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Bundesmarine Training Cruiser (A59) 1959-1990 West German Navy’s flagship In this day of Germany Unity (3 October) what more but the very flagship that bore the country’s name, Ambassador and flagship of the Bundesmarine for most of the cold war ? A59 Deutschland though was not a capital ship, but a schoolship (A for auxiliary … Read more

Type 201 class submarines (1960)

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Bundesmarine (1960), 3 ships: U-1 – U-3 The Bundesmarine’s first submarines The Type 201 were the first post-WW2 German submarines to see the day. They derived from a long process started with the reintegration of Germany into NATO and the idea that the Bundesmarine could need small submarines as a way to defend the eastern … Read more

Gneisenau class Frigates

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Bundesmarine Type 138 (1958-68)FG 212, 217, 218 Gneisenau, Raule, Brommy Bundesmarine’s modernized British Hunt Frigates As part as the rearmament of the newly created Bundesmarine in 1955, as West Germany was now part of NATO, ex stock WW2 allied ships were transferred (purchased with the help of MDAP funds), and among these, a number of … Read more

Type 101 Hamburg class destroyers (1960)

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Bundesmarine (1959-68) Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Bayern, Hessen The home-built Bundesmarine’s destroyers Between the first, rebuilt and modernized Zerstörer class (1958) -Fletcher type- and the first missile destroyers of the Lütjens class in 1965, also US-sourced as former Charles F. Adams class, the Bundesmarine obtained its first tailored, home-built destroyers: The Type 101 Hamburg class. Hamburg (D181) … Read more

Lütjens class Destroyers (1965)

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Bundesmarine (1962-70) – 3 ships: Lütjens, Mölders, Rommel Called the class 103/103A/103B or more commonly Lütjens class, these were the main guided missile destroyers of the Bundesmarine (German Navy). The ships ships were built in 1966-1970 in the United States for the Federal Republic of Germany, based on the the American Charles F. Adams class. … Read more

Zerstörer class destroyers (1958)

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Bundesmarine (1958-70), 6 ships: Z1 – Z6 The Bundesmarine’s first destroyers: Although the Bundeswehr was integrated into NATO in 1955 and regained sovereignty over its territory, it would take some more years to organize the Bundesmarine in order to operate major units. Until then, the existing ships in service were merely minesweepers. However the drive … Read more