Oste class fleet service ship

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Officially designated as fleet service ships, the three vessels of the Type 423 Oste class are purpose built ELINT and reconnaissance ships of the German Navy. They replaced the Type 422 class.

Accommodations are built to civil standards, i.e. the Oste class offers much more comfort for the crew than other ships in the German Navy.

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Pennant
number		 Name Call
sign		 Launched Commissioned
A52 Oste DRHH July 30, 1988
A53 Oker DRHG November 10, 1988
A50 Alster DRHF November 14, 1988 October 5, 1989

The ships were built at Neue Flensburger Schiffbau Gesellschaft (Flensburg).

All ships are currently based in Eckernförde and belong to the 1st submarine squadron stationed in Eckernförde. The vessels got the same name and pennant numbers as the three Type 422 class vessels they replaced. To avoid the confusion, the ship names are sometimes suffixed with II.

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Ship classes of the Deutsche Marine
Destroyers 101A Hamburg | 103B Lütjens
Frigates and Corvettes 122 Bremen | 123 Brandenburg | 124 Sachsen | F125 | 130 Braunschweig
Fast Attack Craft 143 Albatros | 143A Gepard | 148 Tiger
Mine warfare 332 Frankenthal | 333 Kulmbach | 352 Ensdorf | 742A Mühlhausen
Submarines 205B | 206A | 212A
Auxiliary ships 404 Elbe | 423 Oste | 441 Gorch Fock | 520 Barbe | 702 Berlin | 703 Walchensee | 704 Rhön | 720 Helgoland | 721 Eisvogel | 722 Wangerooge | 760 Westerwald


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