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First large navyship to use the new german navy floating dock in Kiel Marinearsenal assisted by tugs "Lütje Hörn (Y819) and Falckenstein 2011/03/25

SACHSEN: German Type 124 Frigate, launched 1999, comm. 2005
Buider: Blohm & Voss, Hamburg
Displacement: 5,960 tons full load
Dimensions: 143 x 17.2 x 7 meters meters (469 x 56 x 22.4 feet)
Propulsion: 2 shafts; 2 cruise diesels, 19,848 bhp, 1 LM2500 boost gas turbine,
32,500 shp,29knots
Crew: 225 + 14 flag
Aviation: helicopter deck and hangar for 2 Lynx helos
Radar: APAR 3-D multifunction
Sonar: DSQS-21B
EW: FL-1800S II intercept, chaff
Armament: 32 cell VLS (24 SM-2MR and 32 ESSM), 8 Harpoon SSM, 2 21-cell RAM
launchers,76 mm OTO P, 2 triple 12.75 inch torpedo tubes, 2 20 mm

Dock Landing Ship USS TORTUGA LD 46 at Kiel Naval Port, 31.05.2005

L: 186m

B: 25,6m

D: 6,0m

11850/15165ts

Docking Well: 134×15,2m

Build: 1987-89 at Avondale Shy.

Royal Norwegian navy submarine in Kiel at Tirpitzmole (Kiel navy port) 2011/03/18 after her pressure test in the submarine-testing-dock of german navy in Kiel

ULA-Class (German submarine class 210). The combat systems were made in Norway by Kongsberg, the attack sonar is German and the flank sonars French. The hull sections were produced in Norway, and then assembled in Germany by Thyssen Nordseewerke, Emden.
Utstein commissioned in 1991
Displacement: Surface: 1,040 tons
Submerged: 1,150 tons
Length: 59 m (194 ft), Beam: 5.4 m (18 ft), Draft: 4.6 m (15 ft)
Propulsion: Diesel-electric
2 MTU 16V 396 diesel engines (970kW each) 1 electric motor, 6,000 shp
Speed: Surface: 11 kn (20 km/h)
Submerged: 23 kn (43 km/h)
Range: 5,000 miles at 8 knots (15 km/h)

Royal Norwegian navy submarine visit in Kiel at Tirpitzmole (Kiel navy port) 2011/03/15

ULA-Class (German submarine class 210). The combat systems were made in Norway by Kongsberg, the attack sonar is German and the flank sonars French. The hull sections were produced in Norway, and then assembled in Germany by Thyssen Nordseewerke, Emden.
Utstein commissioned in 1991
Displacement: Surface: 1,040 tons
Submerged: 1,150 tons
Length: 59 m (194 ft), Beam: 5.4 m (18 ft), Draft: 4.6 m (15 ft)
Propulsion: Diesel-electric
2 MTU 16V 396 diesel engines (970kW each) 1 electric motor, 6,000 shp
Speed: Surface: 11 kn (20 km/h)
Submerged: 23 kn (43 km/h)
Range: 5,000 miles at 8 knots (15 km/h)

Kieler Förde passing Heikendorf roads outbound 2011/03/03
German Fast-Patrol-Boat Gepard-Class (Type 143A)
Commissioned: 1984/03/22
Built by: AEG / Kröger Werft, Rendsburg
Wooden hull on aluminium frames
Displacement: 391 tons full load
Dimensions: 57.6 x 7.76 x 2.56 meters
Propulsion: 4 MTU diesels, 4 shafts, 9,700 kW, 32 knots/max. 40.0kn Crew: 34 (4
Officers)
Armament: 4 MM38 Exocet SSM, 1 76 mm OTO DP, 1 21 cell RAM (air defence)

Recently arrived in Kiel (TKMS Yard) via ponton from TKMS Emden the new aftpart of the new german navy submarine U35. 2011/03/04
U 35 is the newest Type 212A submarine of the German Navy (delivery in 2012/2013). She is powered by one dieselengine and an electric motor driven by 9 fuel cells and features a cavitation-free screw, making it virtually undetectable.
Displacement: 1,450to. surfaced, 1,830to. submerged
L: 56.0 m B: 7.0 m Height: 11.5 m
Diesel with 1,050 kW / 9 fuel-cell-modules with tot. 306 kW / E-Engine with 1,700 kW

Kiel HDW TKMS Synchrolift 2011/03/04
U 31 was the first Type 212A submarine of the German Navy. She is powered by one diesel engine and an electric motor driven by 9 fuel cells and features a cavitationfree screw, making it virtually undetectable. Displacement: 1,450to. surfaced, 1,830to. submerged
L: 56.0 m B: 7.0 m Height: 11.5 m
Diesel with 1,050 kW / 9 fuel-cell-modules with tot. 306 kW / E-Engine with 1,700 kW

German U-31 in the Kiel-Canal, 22.01.2011

The German Type 212A is an advanced design of non-nuclear U-Boat developed by Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft AG (HDW) for the German Navy. It features diesel propulsion with an air-independent propulsion (AIP) system using Siemens polymer electrolyte module (PEM) hydrogen fuel cells.
*2005 HDW, Kiel (Comm. 2005/10/19)
Displacement: 1450 tonnes surfaced, 1830 tonnes submerged
Length: 56 m (183.7 feet) Beam: 7 m (22.96 feet) Draft: 6 m (19.68 feet)
Propulsion: 1 MTU 16V 396 diesel-engine, 9 HDW/Siemens PEM fuel cells, 30-40 kW each, 1 Siemens Permasyn electric motor 1700 kW, driving a single seven-bladed skewback propeller, Speed: 20 knots (37 km/h) submerged, 12 knots surfaced Depth: over 700 m (2,296 feet)

German Navy Tug NORDSTRAND Y 817 in Kiel-Canal Jan 22, 2011
L: 30,3m
B: 9,1m
D: 2,5m
445ts

Builder: Orenstein & Koppel 1986/87

German navy fleet oiler outbound Kieler Förde 2011/01/23