Wangerooge-class tug

Class overview
Wangerooge
Name:	Wangerooge
Operators:	German Navy
In service:	1968-present
In commission:	1968-1971
Completed:	5
Active:	2
General characteristics
Type:	tug
Displacement:	798 tonnes (785 long tons; 880 short tons)
Length:	52.7 m (172 ft 11 in)
Beam:	12.2 m (40 ft 0 in)
Propulsion:	around 1,500 kW (2,000 hp)
Speed:	12 knots (22 km/h/14 mph)
Complement:	33 civilians

The Type 722 Wangerooge class seagoing tugboats are used for rescue and salvage operation by the German Navy. They are also used for towing targets and retrieving training torpedoes. Survival trainings for aircraft crews are also carried out with them.

List of ships

Former Wangerooge class tug A1453 Juist, now a diver training boat with new pennant number A1440
A1452 Spiekeroog

Pennant number	Name	Type/ Upgrade	call sign	Commissioned	Base/fate
A1451	Wangerooge	722C	DRLI	9 April 1968	Wilhelmshaven
A1452	Spiekeroog	722B	DRIJ	14 August 1968	Kiel
A1453	Langeoog	722		14 August 1968	recommissioned as Type 754, A1441 Langeoog
A1454	Baltrum	722		8 October 1968	recommissioned as Type 754, A1439 Baltrum
A1455	Norderney	722B	DRLK	15 October 1970	sold to Uruguay and recommissioned as ROU 23 Maldonado
A1456	Juist	722		1 October 1971	recommissioned as Type 754, A1440 Juist

The ships are named after East Frisian Islands.

References

Seeschlepper WANGEROOGE-Klasse (in German) - Marine (official homepage of the German Navy)

Ship classes of the German Navy

Destroyers	101A Hamburg 103B Lütjens 119 Fletcher

Frigates and corvettes	120 Köln 122 Bremen 123 Brandenburg 124 Sachsen 125 Baden-Württemberg 130 Braunschweig

Fast attack craft	149 Silbermöwe 140 Jaguar 141 Seeadler 142 Zobel 143 Albatros 143A Gepard 148 Tiger

Mine warfare	320 Lindau 332 Frankenthal 333 Kulmbach 352 Ensdorf 742A Mühlhausen

Submarines	XXI Wilhelm Bauer 201 202 205B 206A 212A

Training ships	440 Deutschland

Auxiliary ships	404 Elbe 423 Oste 441 Gorch Fock 520 Barbe 702 Berlin 703 Walchensee 704 Rhön 720 Helgoland 721 Eisvogel 722 Wangerooge 738 Bottsand 751 Planet 760 Westerwald

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