Walchensee-class tanker

Walchensee-class tanker
Tegernsee (2011)
Class overview
Name:	Walchensee class
Builders:	Lindenau-Werft, Kiel
Operators:	German Navy
Built:	1964-1967
In service:	1966-today
Building:	4
Active:	2
Retired:	2
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:	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

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 are still in service, the others have been sold after decommissioning.

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		based in Kiel
A 1426	Tegernsee	DRKK	October 22, 1966	March 23, 1967		based in Wilhelmshaven
A 1427	Westensee		April 8, 1967	October 6, 1967	September 30, 2003	scrapped 2009

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)