German naval ship Deutschland (A59)

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A59 Deutschland was a naval ship of the Bundesmarine, the West German navy. It was constructed and used as a trainings ship (school ship) in peace times and planned for multi role missions in times of war: troop ship, hospital ship, minelayer and more. For this reason the ship was only lightly armed for its size (no guided missiles), the machinery was rather impractical and diverse, and large teaching rooms were contained. Also civilians served alongside military personnel . For its time it was the largest naval vessel of Germany. Permission to built the ship was granted despite being larger than allowed by tonnage restrictions imposed by the WEU on West Germany then. (The later built Berlin class replenishment ships of the reunited and full sovereign Germany are much larger.)

Deutschland was designed and built by Stülcken, the same shipbuilding company that designed the Hamburg class destroyer and there are many similarities in both designs. Like most German postwar naval ships it was completely NBC protected.

This one-ship class, Type 440 of the German designation system, costed 95 million DM.

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