Wangerooge-class tug
Wangerooge | |
Class overview | |
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Name | Wangerooge |
Operators |
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In service | 1968–2022 |
In commission | 1968–1971 |
Completed | 5 |
Active | 0 |
Retired | 2 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Tugboat |
Displacement | 798 tonnes (785 long 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 tugs are a series of ocean-going tugboats that are used for rescue and salvage operation by the German Navy. They are also used for towing targets and retrieving training torpedoes. Survival training for aircraft crews are also carried out with them.
Replacements
On 12 May 2023, the Federal Office of Bundeswehr Equipment, Information Technology and In-Service Support announced the purchase of Rota Endurance, formerly Highland Endurance, an anchor handling tug (AHT) built in 2003 by Vard Søviknes in Norway as commercial replacement.[1] Further acquisitions of similar commercial tugs boats are being considered with a second tender on-going in 2023.
List of ships
Pennant number | Name | Type/ Upgrade | call sign | Commissioned | Base/fate |
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A1451 | Wangerooge | 722C | DRLI | 9 April 1968 | Wilhelmshaven Out of active service end 2022 |
A1452 | Spiekeroog | 722B | DRIJ | 14 August 1968 | Kiel Out of active service end 2022 |
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.
Gallery
- Former Wangerooge-class tug Juist, now a diver training vessel
- Spiekeroog
- ROU Maldonado, ex-Norderney, moored in Montevideo in 2024
References
- ^ "German Navy Purchases Tug Rota Endurance".
Sources
- Seeschlepper WANGEROOGE-Klasse (in German) - Marine (official homepage of the German Navy)
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