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Walchensee-class tanker

The Walchensee-class tanker (Type 703) is a series of four small coastal tankers, built by Lindenau-Werft in Kiel for the German Navy to transport fuel and fresh water between depots and to units near coasts or in harbour.

Tegernsee (2011)
Class overview
NameWalchensee class
BuildersLindenau-Werft, Kiel
Operators German Navy
Built1964-1967
In service1966-2015
Building4
Active0
Retired4
General characteristics
Class and typeKleiner Betriebsstofftransporter 703
TypeTanker
Displacement2,174 tonnes
Length74.20 m (243 ft 5 in)
Beam11.22 m (36 ft 10 in)
Draft4.54 m (14 ft 11 in)
Propulsion
Speed12.5 knots (23.2 km/h)
Range3,250 nm at 12 kn
Complement21 civilians
Sensors and
processing systems
Navigation radars only
Notes
  • Transport capacity:
  • 1100 t of fuel
  • 60 t fresh water

Two ships were in service until December 2015 and are disposed off, the other 2 were already decommissioned (one sold & one scrapped).

Ship list edit

Pennant
number
Name Call
sign
Launched Commissioned Decommissioned Base/
fate
A 1424 Walchensee July 10, 1965 June 29, 1966 December 19, 2001 sold
A 1425 Ammersee DRKJ July 9, 1966 March 2, 1967 31 December 2015
A 1426 Tegernsee DRKK October 22, 1966 March 23, 1967 31 December 2015
A 1427 Westensee April 8, 1967 October 6, 1967 September 30, 2003 scrapped 2009

See also edit

References edit

  • Betriebsstofftransporter WALCHENSEE-Klasse (703) (German) - Marine (official homepage of the German Navy)

Further reading edit

  • Gerhard Koop/Siegfried Breyer: Die Schiffe, Fahrzeuge und Flugzeuge der deutschen Marine von 1956 bis heute, Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Bonn 1996, ISBN 3-7637-5950-6 (German)

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