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.
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| Class overview | |
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| Name: | Walchensee class |
| Builders: | Lindenau-Werft, Kiel |
| Operators: |
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| Built: | 1964-1967 |
| In service: | 1966-2015 |
| Building: | 4 |
| Active: | 0 |
| Retired: | 4 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and 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 |
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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 |
See also
- T1 tanker US coastal tanker
- T2 tanker
- T3 Tanker
- Victory ships
- Liberty ship
- Type C1 ship
- Type C2 ship
- Type C3 ship
- United States Navy oiler
- Escambia-class replenishment oiler
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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