{"id":5288,"date":"2023-02-22T19:16:46","date_gmt":"2023-02-22T18:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shipspottingmag.com\/galleries\/naval-ships-in-the-naval-base-kiel-on-02-19-2023\/"},"modified":"2023-02-26T23:45:10","modified_gmt":"2023-02-26T22:45:10","slug":"naval-ships-in-the-naval-base-kiel-on-02-19-2023","status":"publish","type":"gallery","link":"https:\/\/shipspottingmag.com\/en\/galleries\/naval-ships-in-the-naval-base-kiel-on-02-19-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Naval vessels at the naval base in Kiel on February 19, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"

Picture gallery of naval ships in the naval base in Kiel on February 19th, 2023: Permanent NATO mine countermeasures group 1 visiting the naval port of Kiel.<\/strong><\/p>\n

There has been a lot going on at the Kiel naval base in the past few days, there were significantly more ships in the base than usual. Of course there was a reason for that. Over the weekend, the naval ships of the permanent NATO mine countermeasures group 1 (SNMCMG1) were moored at the Gorch-Fock-Mole in the Kiel-Wik naval base<\/p>\n

Here the naval ships are moored together with the sailing training ship Gorch Fock on the pier in glorious sunshine on Sunday, February 19th, 2023.<\/p>\n

The NATO task force is led by the Royal Norwegian Navy’s deep-sea patrol ship A 531 Nordkapp. The Standing NATO Mine Countermeasures Group 1 is an association of mine countermeasures vehicles and is part of the NATO Response Force (NRF). The area of ​​application is the European North Atlantic with the North and Baltic Seas. The counterpart to the Mediterranean is the Standing NATO Mine Countermeasures Group 2.<\/p>\n

Mine Countermeasures Unit 1 consists of the following ships at the moment:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  • A 531 Nordkapp (Norwegian Navy)<\/li>\n
  • M 351 Otra (Norwegian Navy)<\/li>\n
  • M 860 Schiedam (Dutch Navy)<\/li>\n
  • M 1061 Rottweil (German Navy)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    On Monday, February 20th, 2023, the NATO task force left the naval base in Kiel with the next destination: the Bay of Kiel and the Baltic Sea.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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