Damn the torpedoes. Full speed ahead!"
Admiral Farragut sailing aboard his flagship Hartford while entering Mobile
Bay, Alabama, August 23, 1864
Bremen was a Bremen-class frigate of the German Navy. She was the lead ship of
the class, and the second surface warship to serve with one of the navies of
Germany to be named after the city of Bremen, in the state of Bremen. Her
predecessor was the cruiser SMS Bremen of the Imperial German Navy, one of the
Bremen class.
Bremen participated in various international missions during her career. She
was frequently deployed to participate in NATO permanent monitoring missions in
the Mediterranean during the Gulf War in 1991. In late January 1992 she
escorted the German freighter Godewind into Cartagena, Spain. The Godewind had
been intercepted in the Mediterranean by the destroyer Molders while
transporting T-72 tanks from Poland to Syria without German permission. From
1992 to 1996 Bremen was active in the Adriatic Sea as part of NATO's Operation
Sharp Guard, the maritime blockade of the former Yugoslavia during the Yugoslav
Wars. From 2002 she served in the counter-terrorism Operation Enduring Freedom.
In 2009 Bremen joined Operation Atalanta, the EU's anti-piracy mission off the
Horn of Africa. On August 14th, 2009, she deployed her helicopter to counter a
pirate attack on the Turkish-flagged merchant ship MS Elgiznur Cebi. On
encountering a pirate skiff and six pirates, the helicopter fired warning shots
to force it to stop. The skiff was then seized by the Greek frigate Narvarinon,
which found weapons and boarding ladders. In May 2012 Bremen was again deployed
with Operation Atalanta, taking over from the replenishment oiler Berlin, in a
ceremony attended by German Secretary of State Thomas Kossendey. Bremen was
relieved from these duties in September 2012 by the Sachsen-class frigate
Sachsen.
Shown here is a 1:1250 scale replica of the famed German Bundesmarine Bremen
class frigate, Bremen. #DAKS33
Dimensions:
Length: 7-inches
Width: 1-inch
Features:
Fully assembled
Fully painted
Ready to display
Some models come with a German language magazine describing the warship in
detail
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