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BySeaWaves Magazine – Sep 15, 2026 Bundesmarine On Saturday, September 19, 2026, at 10 a.m., the sail training ship “Gorch Fock” will return to its home port of Kiel after 165 days of absence and more than 14,000 nautical miles from a very special journey. The 189th overseas training voyage took the tall ship, underContinue reading “Gorch Fock Returns to Kiel”
By SeaWaves Magazine – Aug 30, 2026 On Thursday, August 27, 2026, at 12 noon, the replenishment ship “Berlin” under the command of Frigate Captain Martin Kiesewetter will leave its home port of Wilhelmshaven to participate in the Standing NATO Maritime Group 1 (SNMG 1). “Over the past few months, we have completed an extremelyContinue reading “FGS Berlin to Join SNMG1”
Xenia Zubova – 31st July 2026 at 9:59am Three Nato ships with very different jobs have made a scheduled replenishment visit to Glasgow. HMCS Ville de Québec is a Canadian frigate and the new flagship of Standing Nato Maritime Group 1, HNoMS Fridtjof Nansen is a Norwegian frigate, while FGS Rhön is a German NavyContinue reading “A flagship, a Norwegian frigate and a 48-year-old German tanker sail into Glasgow”
Posted on July 17, 2026 by laststandonzombieisland One comment Some 105 years ago, 18 July 1921, off the Virginia Capes Successive leisurely flights of land-based Army and Navy bombers dropped an assortment of bombs over the moored and abandoned 6,600-ton German Wiesbaden-class scout cruiser SMS Frankfurt, formerly of the Kaiser’s High Seas Fleet, and (eventually) sank same. To help with aimpoints, she even convenientlyContinue reading “The Day Old Frankie took the Plunge”
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