Wangerooge class tug

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Former Wangerooge class tug A1453 Juist, now a diver training boat with new pennant number A1440

The Type 722 Wangerooge class seagoing tugboats are used for rescue and salvage operation by the German Navy. They are also used for towing targets and retrieving training torpedoes. Survival trainings for aircraft crews are also carried out with them.

1 Specifications
2 List of ships
3 References
4 See also

[edit] Specifications

Length: 52.7m
Beam: 12.2m
Displacement: 798t
Propulsion: around 1500kW
Speed: 12kts
Complement: 33 (civilian)

[edit] List of ships

Pennant number	Name	Type/ Upgrade	call sign	Commissioned	Decommissioned	Base/fate
A1451	Wangerooge	722C	DRLI	April 9, 1968		Wilhelmshaven
A1452	Spiekeroog	722B	DRIJ	August 14, 1968		Kiel
A1453	Langeoog	722		August 14, 1968	?	recommissioned as Type 754, A1441 Langeoog
A1454	Baltrum	722		October 8, 1968	?	recommissioned as Type 754, A1439 Baltrum
A1455	Norderney	722B	DRLK	October 15, 1970	?	?
A1456	Juist	722		October 1, 1971	?	recommissioned as Type 754, A1440 Juist

The ships are named after East Frisian Islands.

[edit] References

Seeschlepper WANGEROOGE-Klasse (in German) - Marine (official homepage of the German Navy)

[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