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Wangerooge
Class overview
Name	Wangerooge
Operators	German Navy  National Navy of Uruguay
In service	1968–2022
In commission	1968–1971
Completed	5
Active	0
Retired	2
General characteristics
Type	Tugboat
Displacement	798 tonnes (785 long tons)
Length	52.7 m (172 ft 11 in)
Beam	12.2 m (40 ft 0 in)
Propulsion	around 1,500 kW (2,000 hp)
Speed	12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Complement	33 civilians

The Type 722 Wangerooge-class tugs are a series of ocean-going tugboats that are used for rescue and salvage operation by the German Navy. They are also used for towing targets and retrieving training torpedoes. Survival training for aircraft crews are also carried out with them.

Replacements

On 12 May 2023, the Federal Office of Bundeswehr Equipment, Information Technology and In-Service Support announced the purchase of Rota Endurance, formerly Highland Endurance, an anchor handling tug (AHT) built in 2003 by Vard Søviknes in Norway as commercial replacement. Further acquisitions of similar commercial tugs boats are being considered with a second tender on-going in 2023.

List of ships

The ships are named after East Frisian Islands.

Gallery

• Former Wangerooge-class tug Juist, now a diver training vessel
• Spiekeroog
• ROU Maldonado, ex-Norderney, moored in Montevideo in 2024

References

1. "German Navy Purchases Tug Rota Endurance".

Sources

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

• Auxiliary ships of Germany
• Tugboats of Germany
• Auxiliary tugboat classes
• Auxiliary ships of the German Navy