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.

Tegernsee (2011)
Class overview
Name	Walchensee class
Builders	Lindenau-Werft, Kiel
Operators	German Navy
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	2 × MWM diesel engines, generating 1,020 kW One controlled-pitch propeller, 2.25 m diameter
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
Notes	Transport capacity: 1100 t of fuel 60 t fresh water

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)

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)