Elbe on 13 August 2005 | |
History | |
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Germany | |
Name | Elbe |
Namesake | Elbe |
Builder | Bremer Vulkan |
Launched | June 1992 |
Commissioned | 28 January 1993 |
Homeport | Warnemünde |
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Status | Active |
General characteristics | |
Type | Elbe-class replenishment ship |
Displacement | 3,586 tonnes |
Length | 100.55 m (329 ft 11 in) |
Beam | 15.40 m (50 ft 6 in) |
Draft | 4.05 m (13 ft 3 in) |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 15 knots (28 km/h) |
Range | 2,600 nmi (4,800 km) |
Capacity |
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Complement | 40 (standard) + >38 (repair party, passengers, squadron staff) |
Armament |
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Aviation facilities | Helipad |
Elbe (A511) is the lead ship of the Elbe-class replenishment ships of the German Navy.
The Elbe-class replenishment ships are also known tenders of the German Navy. In German, this type of ship is called Versorgungsschiffe which can be translated as "supply ship" though the official translation in English is "replenishment ship".
They are intended to support German naval units away from their home ports. The ships carry fuel, provisions, ammunition and other matériel and also provide medical services. The ships are named after German rivers where German parliaments were placed.
Elbe was launched in June 1992 in Bremen-Vegesack, Germany. She was commissioned on 28 January 1993. [1]
Elbe had moved from its home base in Rostock-Warnemünde to Kiel on 14 July 2016 to join forces with the Sakala from Estonia and Skalvis from Lithuania. On 18 July, the ships then set sail together for the Baltic Sea to later join the standing NATO mine countermeasures group SNMCMG 1 (Standing NATO Mine Countermeasures Group 1). The tender Elbe is now the operations center for the international task force. [2]
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