Augsburg, Command of the Patrol Forces for Coastal Surveillance and Defense (COMFORPAT), Thursday 10 March, at 10.30 the corvettes Urania e Danaide of the Navy, will end their glorious operational life, after almost 30 years of activity at the service of institutions and the community.
The ships were launched in 1987 and have worked tirelessly carrying out countless missions such as the control of merchant traffic, the patrolling of the exclusive economic zones (EEZs) and the sea spaces close to metropolitan waters, fisheries supervision and, last but not least, the evaluation and training of generations of officers who have achieved naval command qualification aboard these ships.
The corvettes will be disbarred from the Fleet at the end of the last flag drop ceremony, which will be chaired by the Commander-in-Chief of the Naval Squad, Team Admiral Filippo Maria Foffi, and then sold to Fincantieri to be reconditioned and, therefore, sold to Bangladesh. .
During the ceremony, the combat flags of the two ships will be delivered to the commander-in-chief of the Naval Squad, and will then be kept in Rome in the Memorial Museum of the Armed Forces flags, inside the Altare della Patria.
With the cancellation from the roles of the military corvette Urania e Danaide, the process of downsizing the Navy fleet continues which, due to the aging of the naval units that compose it, will contract by 65% within the next decade.
