page_title: German Federal Coast Guard
section_title: Ships and other vessels
hierarchical_section_title: German Federal Coast Guard / Ships and other vessels
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Fischereischutzboot (FSB) Seeadler English: Fishery Protection Vessel (FPV) Seeadler
context_page_description: The German Federal Coast Guard is a civilian law enforcement organisation whose primary missions are border protection, maritime environmental protection, shipping safety, fishery protection and customs enforcement. The Küstenwache is an association of several federal agencies, not a single entity like the United States Coast Guard.
  The agencies that make up the Küstenwache have a common plan of action and direct their operations from two Coast Guard Centers, Neustadt for the Baltic Sea and Cuxhaven for the North Sea.
context_section_description: A total of 27 ships and boats from the aforementioned institutions are in operation (Bundespolizei: six ships; Wasserzoll: eight customs cutters, four customs cruisers; WSV: three multi-purpose ships; BLE: two fishery protection boats, three fishery research ships).
  The ships are all marked with the legend "Küstenwache" as well as a black-red-gold signet on the hull and the coast guard's coat-of-arms. However, the hull colour differs from agency to agency: blue for the Bundespolizei, green for the Zoll and black for the WSV and BLE.
  A number of helicopters and planes are in use as well.
  Some Ships:
  BP 24	Bad Bramstedt
  BP 25	Bayreuth
  BP 26	Eschwege
  BP 81	Potsdam
  BP 82	Bamberg
  BP 83	Bad Düben
  MS Priwall
  MS Kalkgrund
  FSB Seeadler
  Hamburg
  SUBS Mellum
caption: Fishery protection vessel Seeadler
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