" The German frigate "Brandenburg" can no longer carry out its mission as the flagship of the NATO Einsatzverband 2 in the Aegean between Greece and Turkey. The 139-meter-long ship crashed with a harbor mole on Easter Monday when it was docked in the port of Piraeus, causing considerable damage. According to first reports from the Greek port, the frigate has rammed an underwater barrier at the harbor entrance. The two propellers and the rudder should have been damaged. Officially, the incident of the deployment command of the Bundeswehr has not yet been confirmed.However, a press release was announced for the afternoon.The "Brandenburg" was to leave Piraeus on Easter Monday at 10 o'clock with course on the area of application within the framework of the refugee use in the Aegean. Instead, the frigate, after the basic contact with slow travel, first steered an anchorage south of the port of Piraeus, where the damage was investigated with on-board means. In a bay, bordeigee divers of the frigate then examined the underwater vessel. Damages on the rudder blade and one of the two ship's bolts were detected, as a spokesman for the deployment commando informed. Up to a further assessment, it is possible to determine the extent of the damage and the need for repair.The Greek navy immediately made a berth at the Naval Shipyard in Salamis near Piraeus. There are also floating docks. For security reasons, the frigate was accompanied by the Greek tug "Christos XVII" to the shipyard to Salamis on Tuesday afternoon.The damages are to be investigated in the coming days experts of the naval arsenal in Greece. The Nato Einsatzverband 2 must deal with this damage without the German flagship. The Nato Association is responsible for the monitoring of refugee movements in the Aegean since December by the German flotilla admiral Axel Deertz. The "Brandburg" has only been a flagship for a few days after the former flagship "Saxony" had planned to return to Germany early in April. The "Brandenburg" is to remain in the Aegean until the end of August.It is already the second accident of this type within a few weeks for the navy.On 16 March the Einsatzgruppenversorger "Frankfurt am Main" collided so unhappily with the lock wall, that the ship could not participate in a NATO maneuver in Scotland at the entrance into the sea lock in Wilhelmshaven.
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18 April 2017 - 22:00
Update: 19 April 2017 - 08:28
Fregate "Brandenburg" suffered significant damage in grounding at Piräus
Fregate suffered significant damage in grounding at Piräus
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18 April 2017 - 22:00
Update: 19 April 2017 - 08:28
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