The ''Bad Bramstedt''-class is a class of three offshore
patrol vessels operated by the
Federal Police of Germany. The vessels were ordered in year 2000 to replace the eight boats of the ''Neustadt'' class.
Using prefabricated hulls that had been built in the
Yantar special economic zone of
Kaliningrad Oblast,
Russia, the three vessels were completed by Abeking & Rasmussen at
Lemwerder
Lemwerder is a municipality in the district of Wesermarsch, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is on the left bank of the Weser, approximately east of Oldenburg, and northwest of the centre of Bremen.
Since April 2001, Lemwerder is governed by Ma ...
, Germany. They are equipped with a
diesel hybrid
Diesel may refer to:
* Diesel engine, an internal combustion engine where ignition is caused by compression
* Diesel fuel, a liquid fuel used in diesel engines
* Diesel locomotive, a railway locomotive in which the prime mover is a diesel engin ...
engine for fast speeds and a separate diesel-electric plant for an efficient cruising speed. The eponymous vessel ''Bad Bramstedt'' was commissioned on 8 November 2002 with a
pennant number
In the Royal Navy and other navies of Europe and the Commonwealth of Nations, ships are identified by pennant number (an internationalisation of ''pendant number'', which it was called before 1948). Historically, naval ships flew a flag that iden ...
BG 24. Two other boats, ''Bayreuth'' (BG 25) and ''Eschwege'' (BG 26) followed on 2 May 2003 and 18 December 2003 respectively. With the transition of the German Federal Border Guard ''
Bundesgrenzschutz
Bundesgrenzschutz (BGS; en, Federal Border Guard) is the former name of the German ''Bundespolizei'' (Federal Police). Established on 16 March 1951 as a subordinate agency of the Federal Ministry of the Interior, the BGS originally was primari ...
'' into a federal police force (german: Bundespolizei), the pennant numbers were changed to BP 24, BP 25 and BP 26.
''Bad Bramstedt'' and ''Bayreuth'' are based in
Cuxhaven in the
German Bight while ''Eschwege'' operates from
Warnemünde in the
Baltic Sea.
References
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External links
* {{Commonscat-inline, Bad Bramstedt class patrol ships
Patrol vessels of Germany