German destroyer Rommel (D187)
Class 103/103A/103B
The guided missile destroyer Rommel was a warship of the German Navy and was placed as the third and final unit of the class 103 ( Lütjens class) in service. It was named after the destroyer Field Marshal Erwin Rommel ( 1891-1944 ).
History
On August 22, 1967, the keel for the guided missile destroyer DDG - 30 has been stretched as a modified type of the American Charles F. Adams - class in Bath at the Bath Iron Works.
In the presence of the then Defence Minister Gerhard Schröder of the launch of the destroyer on February 1, 1969 took place after it has been previously baptized in the name of drum by the widow Rommel, Lucie Maria Rommel. After the drum was finished, she was transferred to Boston, there passed on May 2, 1970 to the German navy frigate captain and subsequently provided by Klaus -Karl rod for the first destroyer squadron in Kiel in service.
The destroyer Rommel was assigned at entry into the registration D 187 and the radio call sign DBYD. By 1 December 1981, the call sign was changed in DRAG.
From August 1979 to April 1980 a modernization Class 103A took place. The reconstruction and equipment for Destroyer Class 103B was made in April 1985 to March 1986. Early 1996, then the RAM starter came on board.
Inserts
The destroyer was more than 30 years in the service of the German Navy and participated in numerous exercises held in the context of NATO, among other things regularly as part of the association constant use of NATO in the Atlantic ( STANAVFORLANT ). From 19 April to 24 August in 1992 and from 16 May to 29 September 1993, the ship was part of the Standing Naval Force Mediterranean.
Whereabouts
The drum was taken on 30 September 1998 from the car service, after, among other things, the operating license had expired for the boiler plant. From November 24 to December 4, 1998 weapons and other equipment in the naval arsenal Kiel were dismantled. The destroyer was transferred on 26 April 1999, by the North Sea-Baltic Canal, from Kiel to Wilhelmshaven in the local naval arsenal and there made by 30 June 1999 out of service. The ship eventually served as a stock of spare parts for the two sister ships are still in service.
After the drum was sold at the VEBEG for € 600,000 to the company Iron & Metal in Hamburg for the demolition, she appeared on 8 October 2004, towed by tractor Thomas de Gauwdief, their last trip to Aliağa in Turkey.
Sister ships
- Destroyer Lütjens (D 185 ), dated August 11, 1967 to December 18, 2003 in service.
- Destroyer Mölders (D 186), 13 April 1968 to 28 May 2003 in service.
Commander
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