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Class overview | |
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Name | Walchensee class |
Builders | Lindenau-Werft, Kiel |
Operators | ![]() |
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 & 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).
Pennant number | Name | Call sign | Launched | Commissioned | Decommissioned | Base/ fate |
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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 |