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class: Frigate; Bremen (Type 122) class Builder: Nordseewerke GmbH, Emden, Germany STATUS: Laid down: June 1, 1987 Launched: October 15, 1987 Commissioned: March 19, 1990 IN SERVICE (2022) Homeport: Wilhelmshaven, Niedersachsen, Germany Namesake: City of Lübeck, Germany Technical Data: see INFO > Bremen (Type 122) class Frigate |
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                                                    RIM-7 Sea Sparrow SAM missile was fired from the Mk.29 8-cell box-launcher     MTU 20V 956 TB92 diesel engine |
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FGS Lübeck (F 214): After commissioning Lübeck participated in several international deployments. In 1994, 1995 and 1996 she was active in the Adriatic Sea as part of NATO's Operation Sharp Guard, the maritime blockade of the former Yugoslavia during the Yugoslav Wars. In 2003-2004, and again in 2005-2006, Lübeck deployed in support of Operation Enduring Freedom, an anti-terrorism mission. In November 2005 she escorted the cruise ship MS Deutschland through the Gulf of Aden as part of an anti-piracy operation. In July 2007 Lübeck joined the maritime component of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon. From 21 August the following year she was part of Standing NATO Maritime Group 1, carrying out routine exercises in the Black Sea and providing a NATO presence off the Georgian coast during the Russo-Georgian War along with the frigates FFG-50 USS Taylor, the Spanish F-103 Blas de Lezo and the Polish ORP Generał Kazimierz Pułaski. In 2007 Lübeck visited HMNB Devonport for a training exercise, during which she sustained slight damage from a shot fired from her own bow gun. In 2009 she participated in the UNITAS Gold exercises. During these, Lübeck fired two RIM-7 Sea Sparrow anti-aircraft missiles at the target ship, the decommissioned destroyer USS Conolly. Between 2009 and 2010 Lübeck underwent an overhaul at Bremerhaven, before returning to service in 2011 with Standing NATO Maritime Group 1, with a temporary detachment to support NATO's Operation Unified Protector during the Libyan Civil War, before deploying under NATO command for Operation Active Endeavour. Lübeck sailed from Wilhelmshaven on 18 November 2011 for a deployment with Operation Atalanta, the EU's anti-piracy mission off the Horn of Africa. On 17 January 2012 she responded to a pirate attack on the MV Flintstone, repelled by the Flintstone's security detachment. Lübeck pursued the dhow used as a mother ship, which had itself been captured by pirates, who were holding its Indian crewmembers hostage. Lübeck fired on the dhow's bow, and used her helicopter to destroy the pirate skiffs being transported aboard the dhow. The pirates then transferred to the MV Enrico Ievoli, a captured Italian tanker, leaving the dhow and 15 hostages to be secured by the Lübeck. Lübeck carried out manoeuvres with the South African Navy later that year, before returning to Wilhelmshaven via the South Atlantic, arriving on 20 April 2012. She spent 2013 undergoing a refit at Kiel, before returning to Operation Atalanta in autumn 2014. On 21 August 2017 Lübeck departed Wilhelmshaven under the command of Fregattenkapitän Matthias Schmitt to replace the frigate Brandenburg in Standing NATO Maritime Group 2 in the Aegean Sea. Lübeck relieved Brandenburg on the first weekend of September at Souda, Crete. From January to June 2022, the frigate served on her final deployment to the Aegean. She returned home in June 2022 in advance of her planned decommissioning from service. source: wikipedia |
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