Walchensee-class tanker
 Tegernsee (2011) | |
| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Name: | Walchensee class |
| Builders: | Lindenau-Werft, Kiel |
| Operators: |
 German Navy |
| Built: | 1964-1967 |
| In service: | 1966-2015 |
| Building: | 4 |
| Active: | 0 |
| Retired: | 4 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type: | Kleiner Betriebsstofftransporter 703 |
| Type: | Tanker |
| Displacement: | 2,174 tonnes |
| Length: | 74.20 m (243 ft 5 in) |
| Beam: | 11.22 m (36 ft 10 in) |
| Draft: | 4.54 m (14 ft 11 in) |
| Propulsion: |
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| Speed: | 12.5 knots (23.2 km/h) |
| Range: | 3,250 nm at 12 kn |
| Complement: | 21 civilians |
| Sensors and processing systems: | Navigation radars only |
| Notes: |
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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.
Two ships were in service until December 2015 and are disposed off, the other 2 were already decommissioned (one sold & one scrapped).
Ship list
| 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 |
References
- Betriebsstofftransporter WALCHENSEE-Klasse (703) (German) - Marine (official homepage of the German Navy)
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Further reading
- 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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