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Tug Wangerooge (A1451)

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Classification

Ship class:
Wangerooge-class tug (Type 722)
Type:
Tugboat

Basic information

Operator:
German Navy (Deutsche Marine)German Navy (Deutsche Marine)
Country of build:
Builder:
Schichau SeebeckwerftSchichau Seebeckwerft
Laid down:
Launched:
Commissioned (service):
Decommissioned (out):
Status:
Decommissioned
Fate:
Out of active service end 2022

Ship measurements

Displacement:
798 t
Length:
51.78 m
Beam:
11.77 m
Draft:
4.1 m

Machine

Propulsion:
  • 4 * Maybach 16-cylinder diesel engines with 442 kW (600 hp) each
  • 4 * generators with 405 kW each
  • 2 * propeller engines with 820 kW each (2,000 hp)
Speed:
12 knots

Personnel

Complement:
33

Combat assets

Cargo capacity:
  • towing gear
  • 5-ton loading boom
  • 2 * fire extinguishing monitors
  • 2 * bow anchors in side fairleads
  • 1 * stern anchor in anchor pocket
Boats & landing craft:
  • 2 * motor cutters
  • 2 * inflatable boats
  • 3 * life rafts
Armament:
  • 1 * 40 mm Bofors gun

The tug Wangerooge was commissioned on April 8, 1968 for the 2nd Supply Squadron. Her home base was Wilhelmshaven. She was decommissioned at the naval arsenal on October 31, 1969, then mothballed and placed under the reserve flotilla. On July 1, 1970, the Wangerooge was put back into service for the 2nd Supply Squadron in Wilhelmshaven. When the 1st and 2nd Supply Squadrons were merged to form the Trossgeschwader on March 25, 1997, nothing changed for the Wangerooge, which remained stationed in Wilhelmshaven.

A standard task for Wangerooge was to support Naval Air Wing 3 and the Naval Operations School during “Open Sea Survival Training”. Here, aircraft crews practiced jumping from the stern of the tugboat into open water and then being rescued in the life raft under real conditions in windy and rough seas.

On July 15, 2022, the Wangerooge was taken out of service at short notice at the Tamsen shipyard, where it had been undergoing repairs since November 2021, as the outer skin no longer had the necessary material strength. As a replacement, an anchor handling tug built in 2003 with the IMO number 9249518 was purchased, which was put into service as the Rügen on August 23, 2023 after necessary military modifications.

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