Frankenthal-class minehunter
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Template:Infobox ship imageTemplate:Infobox ship class overviewTemplate:Infobox ship characteristicsThe Type 332 Frankenthal-class minehunter is a class of German minehunters. The ships are built of non-magnetic steel. Hull, machinery and superstructure of this class is similar to the original Type 343 Template:Sclass, but the equipment differs. The class forms the 3 Minesweeper Squadron of German Navy. These function as Mine countermeasures vessels. Two of these vessels contribute to the two Standing NATO Mine Countermeasures Groups SNMCG 1 and SNMCG 2.[1]
Slightly modified Frankenthal-class minehunters are also operated by the Turkish Navy, where they are referred to as the Template:Sclass2. In the beginning of 2019, the Indonesian Navy ordered two minehunters based on a modified Frankenthal class, referred to as Template:Sclass, with a length of Template:Convert.[2]
List of ships
All active German ships are currently stationed in Kiel at the Baltic Sea. Fulda, Weilheim, Sulzbach-Rosenberg, Dillingen, and Homburg are part of the 3. Minensuchgeschwader (3. mine sweeper squadron). The others belong to 5. Minensuchgeschwader. Weiden was sold to United Arab Emirates in 2006. As the German Navy closed the naval base at Olpenitz, all ships were relocated to Kiel and their squadrons incorporated into the Einsatzflottille 1 (Flotilla 1).[3]
| Pennant number |
Name | Call sign |
Shipyard | Commissioned | Decommissioned |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M1066 | Frankenthal | DREY | Lürssen | 16 December 1992 | Sold to UAE (now M02 Al Murjan) |
| M1060 | Weiden | DRES | Abeking & Rasmussen | 3 March 1993 | Sold to UAE (now M01 Al Hasbah) |
| M1061 | Rottweil | DRET | Krögerwerft | 7 July 1993 | Refitted to be used with the SEK-M |
| M1063 | Bad Bevensen | DREV | Lürssen | 9 December 1993 | |
| M1067 | Bad Rappenau | DREZ | Abeking & Rasmussen | 19 April 1994 | Refitted to be used with the SEK-M |
| M1064 | Grömitz | DREW | Krögerwerft | 23 August 1994 | |
| M1068 | Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | DRFA | Lürssen | 8 December 1994 | |
| M1065 | Dillingen | DREX | Abeking & Rasmussen | 25 April 1995 | |
| M1069 | Homburg | DRFB | Krögerwerft | 26 September 1995 | |
| M1062 | Sulzbach-Rosenberg | DREU | Lürssen | 23 January 1996 | |
| M1058 | Fulda | DRFC | 5 June 1998 | ||
| M1059 | Weilheim | DRFD | 26 November 1998 |
Incidents
On 21 February 2007, Grömitz ran onto a reef in the Floro fjord while on tour in western Norway and remained stranded in a spectacular way until being salvaged.[4]
In October 2018, the Iranian-backed Yemeni rebel group Ansar Allah released a video which included images that confirmed it sank one of the UAE Navy's Frankenthal class mine-countermeasures vessels in July 2017 in Al-Mukha. The video identified the vessel as Al-Qasnah and said it was attacked on 29 July 2017, which corresponds to a claim it made at the time that it had attacked an Emirati warship with a "suitable weapon".[5]
Gallery
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Grömitz
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Bad Bevensen at the Kiel Week 2007
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A Pinguin B3 mine-hunting ROV
