The Type 332 Frankenthal class mine hunter is a class of German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 mine hunters. The ships are built of non-magnetic steel. Hull, machinery and superstructure of this class is similar to the original Type 343 Hameln class minesweeper, but the equipment differs.

Slightly modified Frankenthal class mine hunters are also operated by the Turkish Navy

Turkish Navy

The Turkish Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the Turkish Armed Forces.- Ottoman fleet after Mudros :Following the demise of the Ottoman Empire in the aftermath of World War I, on November 3, 1918, the fleet commander of the Ottoman Navy, Liva Amiral Arif Pasha, ordered all flags to be...

, where they are referred to as the A Class

A class minehunter (Turkey)

The A Class is a class of minehunter vessels in the Turkish Navy. In 1999, the German shipyards Lürssen and Abeking & Rasmussen were contracted to build six Frankenthal class ships for the Turkish Navy, a business worth US$ 630 million...

.

List of German ships

All active ships are currently stationed in Kiel

Kiel

Kiel is the capital and most populous city in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein, with a population of 238,049 .Kiel is approximately north of Hamburg. Due to its geographic location in the north of Germany, the southeast of the Jutland peninsula, and the southwestern shore of the...

 at the Baltic Sea

Baltic Sea

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. M1058, M1059, M1062, M1065 and M1069 are part of the 3. Minensuchgeschwader (3. mine sweeper squadron). The others belong to 5. Minensuchgeschwader. M1060 Weiden was sold to United Arab Emirates

United Arab Emirates

The United Arab Emirates, abbreviated as the UAE, or shortened to "the Emirates", is a state situated in the southeast of the Arabian Peninsula in Western Asia on the Persian Gulf, bordering Oman, and Saudi Arabia, and sharing sea borders with Iraq, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, and Iran.The UAE is a...

 in 2006. As the German Navy

German Navy

The German Navy is the navy of Germany and is part of the unified Bundeswehr .The German Navy traces its roots back to the Imperial Fleet of the revolutionary era of 1848 – 52 and more directly to the Prussian Navy, which later evolved into the Northern German Federal Navy...

 closed the naval base at Olpenitz, all ships were relocated to Kiel

Kiel

Kiel is the capital and most populous city in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein, with a population of 238,049 .Kiel is approximately north of Hamburg. Due to its geographic location in the north of Germany, the southeast of the Jutland peninsula, and the southwestern shore of the...

 and their squadrons incorporated into the Einsatzflottille 1 (Flotilla 1).

On 21 February 2007, Grömitz ran onto a reef in the Floro fjord while on tour in western Norway and remained stranded in a spectacular way until being salvaged.

Pennant Number Pennant number In the modern Royal Navy, and other navies of Europe and the Commonwealth, ships are identified by pennant numbers...	Name	Call sign Call sign In broadcasting and radio communications, a call sign is a unique designation for a transmitting station. In North America they are used as names for broadcasting stations...	Shipyard	Commissioned	Decommissioned
M1066	Frankenthal	DREY	Lürssen Lürssen Lürssen is a German shipbuilding company based in Bremen-Vegesack.Lürssen designs and constructs yachts, naval ships and special vessels...	December 16, 1992	Sold to UAE (now M02 Al Murjan)
M1060	Weiden	DRES	Abeking & Rasmussen	March 3, 1993	Sold to UAE (now M01 Al Hasbah)
M1061	Rottweil	DRET	Krögerwerft	July 7, 1993	Refitted to be used with the SEK-M
M1063	Bad Bevensen	DREV	Lürssen	December 9, 1993
M1067	Bad Rappenau	DREZ	Abeking & Rasmussen	April 19, 1994
M1064	Grömitz	DREW	Krögerwerft	August 23, 1994
M1068	Datteln	DRFA	Lürssen	December 8, 1994
M1065	Dillingen	DREX	Abeking & Rasmussen	April 25, 1995
M1069	Homburg	DRFB	Krögerwerft	September 26, 1995
M1062	Sulzbach-Rosenberg	DREU	Lürssen	January 23, 1996
M1058	Fulda	DRFC		June 5, 1998
M1059	Weilheim	DRFD		November 26, 1998

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