Helgoland class tug

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The Type 720 Helgoland class tugs are large seagoing salvage tugs used by the German Navy.

[edit] List of ships

Pennant
number
Name Type/
Upgrade
Call
sign
Commissioned Decommissoned Base/fate
A1457 Helgoland 720A DRLE March 8, 1966 December 19, 1997 Sold to Uruguayan Navy as Oyardvide
A1458 Fehmarn 720B DRLF February 1, 1967 Olpenitz

The ships are named after the German islands Helgoland (Heligoland) and Fehmarn.

[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