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).
Ship list
PennantnumberNameCallsignLaunchedCommissionedDecommissionedBase/fateA 1424Walchensee July 10, 1965 June 29, 1966 December 19, 2001 soldA 1425Ammersee DRKJ July 9, 1966 March 2, 1967 31 December 2015 A 1426Tegernsee DRKK October 22, 1966 March 23, 1967 31 December 2015 A 1427Westensee 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
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, (German)