Built as a frigate under yard No 885 by HC Stülcken & Son, Steinwerder, near Hamburg for the Bundesmarine.
23 July 1960 launched as the LÜBECK (F 224), christened by Mrs. Alice Wartemann wife of the Lübecker mayor after which the town was named. She was one of the Köln class.
Displacement 2,134 ton standard, 2,591 full load. Dim. 109.9 x 11.02 x 4.60m (draught), length bpp. 105.0m
Powered: CODAG by two Brown Boveri gasturbines, 24,000 shp., four MAN diesel engines, 11,843 hp., twin shafts, speed 32 knots.
Range 920 mile by full speed.
Armament: 2 – 100mm guns in single mountings, 6 – 40mm in 2 twin and 2 single mountings. 2 quadruple Bofors mortars.
Crew 200-213.
06 June 1963 commissioned.
She was the fifth unit of her class and the class was built for service mostly in the Baltic, the class was built for speed and she had powerful anti-aircraft guns.
During her time in service she participated in many exercises in the Northern Baltic, Atlantic and Mediterranean and made many voyages abroad.
1967 She visited New York from 09 till 10 July.
20 June 1968 out of service for a refit by Blohm & Voss yard in Hamburg till 26 November 1969.
During the trials and the work in period which followed she towed the German coaster UTE who got a broken down engine to Weymouth Bay.
01 December 1988 decommissioned and sold to Turkey and cannibalized.
Grenada 1996 $1 sg3150, scott2559d
Source: Navicula. The World Navies.