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The ships of the F120 Köln class of frigates were the first major warships built in Germany

Germany

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after World War II

World War II

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They were the world's first ships to feature a combined diesel and gas

Combined diesel and gas

Combined diesel and gas ' is a type of propulsion system for ships which need a maximum speed that is considerably faster than their cruise speed, particularly warships like modern frigates or corvettes....

propulsion system. The ships received numerous refits during their long careers with new electronics and torpedo tubes. They were replaced by Type 122 frigates

Bremen class frigate

The eight F122 Bremen class frigates of the German Navy were commissioned between 1982 and 1990. The design is similar to the Dutch Kortenaer class but uses a different hull and propulsion system. The ships were built for anti-submarine warfare as a primary task even though they are not fitted with...

in the 1980s and four ships were sold to the Turkish Navy.

List of ships

Pen- nant Pennant number In the modern Royal Navy, and other navies of Europe and the Commonwealth, ships are identified by pennant numbers...	Name	Shipyard Shipyard Shipyards and dockyards are places which repair and build ships. These can be yachts, military vessels, cruise liners or other cargo or passenger ships. Dockyards are sometimes more associated with maintenance and basing activities than shipyards, which are sometimes associated more with initial...	Laid down	Launched	Com- missioned	Decom- missioned	Fate
F220	Köln	Stülcken & Sohn			April 15 1961	December 17 1982	used as hulk Hulk (ship) A hulk is a ship that is afloat, but incapable of going to sea. Although sometimes used to describe a ship that has been launched but not completed, the term most often refers to an old ship that has had its rigging or internal equipment removed, retaining only its flotational qualities... in Neustadt Neustadt in Holstein Neustadt in Holstein is a town in the district of Ostholstein, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is situated on the Bay of Lübeck , approx...
F221	Emden	Stülcken & Sohn	April 15 1958	March 21 1959	October 24 1961	June 30 1983	Sold to 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... as D361 Gemlik, destroyed in a fire
F222	Augsburg	Stülcken & Sohn	October 29 1958	August 15 1959	April 7 1962	March 30 1988	Broken up in Hamburg Hamburg -History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...
F223	Karlsruhe	HDW Howaldtswerke Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft is a German shipbuilding company, headquartered in Kiel. In 2009 it was the largest shipyard in Germany and has more than 2,400 employees. It has been part of ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems owned by ThyssenKrupp, since 2005...	December 15 1958	October 24 1959	December 15 1962	March 28 1983	sold to the Turkish Navy as D360 Gelibolu
F224	Lübeck German frigate Lübeck (F224) German frigate Lübeck was a which served in the German Federal Navy from 1963 through 1988.- See also :* List of frigates* List of German Federal Navy ships* List of naval ships of Germany* List of ship commissionings in 1963...	Stülcken & Sohn			June 6 1963	December 1 1988	sold to the Turkish Navy for cannibalization Cannibalization of machine parts Cannibalization of machine parts, in maintenance of mechanical or electronic systems with interchangeable parts, refers to the practice of removing parts or subsystems necessary for repair from another similar device, rather than from inventory, usually when resources become limited...
F225	Braunschweig	Stülcken & Sohn	July 28 1960	February 3 1962	June 16 1964	July 4 1989	sold as D361 Gemlik to the Turkish Navy, replaced ex-Emden

All ships were stationed as second frigate squadron in Wilhelmshaven

Wilhelmshaven

Wilhelmshaven is a coastal town in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated on the western side of the Jade Bight, a bay of the North Sea.-History:...

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