Committee of the German Baltic Parties Committee of the German Baltic Parties The Committee of the German-Baltic Parties (, ADP) was an alliance of Baltic German political parties in Latvia during the inter-war period. Its members included the German-Baltic Democratic Party, the German-Baltic Progressive Party, the German-Baltic Reform Party, the German-Baltic People's Party, the German-Baltic Integration Party, the German-Baltic State Party and the Voters Association of Mitau. The alliance was established in early 1920 as a successor to the National Committee. won six seats in the 1920 Constitutional Assembly elections. It retained its six seats in the 1st Saeima after the 1922 elections, but was reduced
Baltic (tug) Baltic (tug) The Baltic is a German emergency tow vessel (ETV) commissioned in 2010. The vessel which was built in Spain by Astilleros Armon is owned by Arbeitsgemeinschaft Küstenschutz of Germany, a consortium of tugboat companies. The Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development of Germany has chartered the vessel to protect the German coastline. The "Baltic" replaced the tugboat "Fairplay 26" as an ETV and operates from Warnemünde in the western Baltic Sea. She was commissioned on 24 September 2010. The Baltic features a bollard pull of 127 tons and a maximum speed of . In October 2010,