Danes invade Brooklyn

By on September 8, 2009 2:42 pm in Maritime

BHB photo by C. Scales

BHB photo by C. Scales

Your correspondent got this photo of the Danish frigate HMDS Thetis from the Brooklyn Bridge this morning. She was approaching Pier 7, at the foot of Atlantic Avenue, where she is now docked. I hope the bars along Atlantic are well stocked with Carlsberg beer. Thetis is visiting New York along with nine other ships from various nations, making up NATO Mine Counter-Measures Group 1.

Update: Belgians, Canadians, Dutch, and Norwegians join in! More photos and text after the jump.

BHB photo by C. Scales

BHB photo by C. Scales

Docked at the south side of Pier 7, front to rear, are: the Norwegian minesweeper KNM Rauma, the Belgian minesweeper BNS Lobelia, and the Dutch frigate HNLMS Tromp. Not pictured, on the north side of Pier 7, docked in front of Thetis, is the Dutch minesweeper HNLMS Urk.

BHB photo by C. Scales

BHB photo by C. Scales

Docked on the north side of Pier 8 are the Canadian minesweepers HMCS Shawinigan (704) and Goose Bay (707).

Better put some Duvel Ale, Molson, Heineken, and Ringness in the cooler, too. And, maybe some akavit.

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2 Responses to Danes invade Brooklyn

  1. Olivier Collinet September 13, 2009 at 4:38 am #

    Hello,

    Thank you for the photograph of the BNS LOBELIA, the Belgian minesweeper who is docked at the south side of Pier 7.

    I am the webmaster of a Belgian navy website and on the forum we follow the voyage of the LOBELIA for the families of the sailors.

    And, please, could you take other photographs of the LOBELIA (and perhaps also sailors of the LOBELIA)? And after to send me the photographs by email?

    The photographs of the BNS LOBELIA will be put on the forum for the families of the sailors. Thank you very much.

    All the best.

    Olivier Collinet
    ex-belgian navy sailor
    webmaster of http://www.wielingen1991.org
    email : contact@wielingen1991.org
    forum : http://www.belgian-navy.be/cmt-chasseurs-de-mines-mijnenjagers-mine-hunters-f14/le-m921-lobelia-traverse-latlantique-avec-snmcmg1-t1968.htm

  2. shawn November 25, 2009 at 5:36 pm #

    hey great pics, i was there on the canadian minesweeper HMCS Goose Bay