German Navy
Maritime warfare branch of Germany's military
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| January 2025 | Dozens of metal shavings discovered in the ship's gearbox during an inspection, potentially indicating sabotage and delaying the maiden voyage. |
| September 2022 | Reported delays in command and control systems integration, with an estimated cost increase of 401 million Euros and potential two-year delay in ship completion. |
| October 21 2020 | Assembly of the ship's sections began in Hamburg. |
| October 17 2020 | Emden arrived in Hamburg for further assembly. |
| October 13 2020 | The corvette started being towed to Hamburg for assembly of her aft section. |
| January 30 2020 | Emden was officially laid down at the shipyard. |
| 2019 | Construction of the German corvette Emden began in late 2019 at Lürssen-Werft in Bremen. |
| April 2018 | German government announced specific arrangements for the construction of five new K130 corvettes. |
| January 26 2018 | Returned to Wilhelmshaven after five months on station, having sailed 29,000 nautical miles and rescued 700 people during the EU Navfor Med mission. |
| November 3 2017 | Assisted in the birth of a baby boy to a Nigerian woman during the migration rescue mission. |
| November 2 2017 | Rescued 323 people from a migrant boat in distress. |
| October 25 2017 | Rescued 158 people from a migrant boat in distress. |
| September 2017 | German Navy commissioned the construction of five new corvettes through a consortium of North German shipyards, with Lürssen as the main contractor. The contract was valued at approximately 2 billion euros. |
| September 13 2017 | Rescued 134 people from a migrant boat in distress during Operation Sophia. |
| August 7 2017 | Deployed again with EU Navfor Med, arriving in Augusta, Sicily on 16 August under the command of Christian Schultze. |
| October 2016 | German Navy announced plans to procure a second batch of five frigates, to be built from 2022 to 2025, in response to NATO requirements for maintaining operational readiness. |
| August 16 2016 | Left Wilhelmshaven to participate in EU Navfor Med mission in the Mediterranean, returning on 23 December after briefly participating in NATO's Operation Sea Guardian. |
| December 2015 | Awarded the flag band of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern state by Minister-President Erwin Sellering in Warnemünde. |
| December 9 2015 | Involved in a collision with the Cypriot-flagged container ship Nordic Bremen in the Kiel Canal, sustaining significant bow damage. |
| November 9 2015 | Returned to home port of Wilhelmshaven after rescuing a total of 4,224 shipwrecked refugees during the EU Navfor Med mission. |
| August 24 2015 | A pregnant Somali woman gave birth to a child aboard the ship, named Sophia, becoming the first child born on a German Navy ship. The mission was subsequently renamed 'Operation Sophia'. |
| July 22 2015 | Rescued 111 people during EU Navfor Med mission. |
| June 2015 | Deployed with the EU Navfor Med mission in the Mediterranean, assisting in rescuing migrants from shipwrecks. |
| December 2014 | Completed chemical weapons mission and then deployed on the Cougar 2014 exercises in the Mediterranean and Persian Gulf, escorting a British amphibious combat group. |
| June 2014 | Deployed on behalf of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, escorting the Cape Ray across the Mediterranean to destroy Syrian chemical weapons. |
| February 11 2014 | Deployed from Wilhelmshaven with other naval vessels for annual training and exercises, concluding in Kiel on 20 June 2014, covering areas from the Arctic Circle to the Equator and visiting 13 ports in nine countries. |
| September 2010 | Completed 124-day deployment with Operation Atalanta, escorting ships from the World Food Program and African Union Mission in Somalia, and was replaced by the frigate Köln. |
| May 19 2010 | Replaced the frigate Emden on deployment with Operation Atalanta off the Horn of Africa. |
This contents of the box above is based on material from the Wikipedia articles German frigate Schleswig-Holstein, German frigate Mecklenburg-Vorpommern & German corvette Emden, which are released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.