Walchensee class tanker

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The Type 703 Walchensee class tanker are small coastal tankers utilized by the German Navy to transport fuel and fresh water between depots and to units near coasts or in harbour.

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[edit] Specifications

  • Length: 74.2m
  • Beam: 11.2m
  • Draft: 4.1m
  • Displacement 2191t
  • Propulsion: 1 shaft, 2 MWM diesel engines,total 1010kW
  • Speed: 12.5kts
  • Capacity: 1100t of fuel, 60t fresh water
  • Complement: 21 (civilians)

[edit] Ship list

Pennant
number
Name Call
sign
Commissioned Decommissioned Base/
fate
A1424 Walchensee June 6, 1966 December 19, 2001 decommissioned
A1425 Ammersee DRKJ March 2, 1967 based in Olpenitz
A1426 Tegernsee DRKK March 2, 1967 based in Wilhelmshaven
A1427 Westensee DRKL October 6, 1967  ? decommissioned

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[edit] See also

Ship classes of the Deutsche Marine
Destroyers 101A Hamburg | 103B Lütjens
Frigates and Corvettes 122 Bremen | 123 Brandenburg | 124 Sachsen | F125 | 130 Braunschweig
Fast Attack Craft 143 Albatros | 143A Gepard | 148 Tiger
Mine warfare 332 Frankenthal | 333 Kulmbach | 352 Ensdorf | 742A Mühlhausen
Submarines 205B | 206A | 212A
Auxiliary ships 404 Elbe | 423 Oste | 441 Gorch Fock | 520 Barbe | 702 Berlin | 703 Walchensee | 704 Rhön | 720 Helgoland | 721 Eisvogel | 722 Wangerooge | 760 Westerwald


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