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|Ship image=TEGERNSEE 1871.jpg
|Ship caption=''Tegernsee'' (2011)
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{{Infobox ship class overview
|Name=''Walchensee'' class
|Builders=Lindenau-Werft, [[Kiel]]
|Operators={{navy|Germany}}
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|Built range=1964-1967
|In service range=1966-2015
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|Total ships building=4
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|Total ships active=0
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|Total ships retired=4
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|Ship class=Kleiner Betriebsstofftransporter 703
|Ship type=[[tanker (ship)|Tanker]]
|Ship displacement=2,174 tonnes
|Ship length= {{convert|74.20|m|ftin|abbr=on}}
|Ship beam= {{convert|11.22|m|ftin|abbr=on}}
|Ship height=
|Ship draft= {{convert|4.54|m|ftin|abbr=on}}
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|Ship power=
|Ship propulsion=*2 × [[MWM (Motoren Werke Mannheim AG)|MWM]] [[diesel engine]]s, generating 1,020 kW
*One controlled-pitch [[propeller]], 2.25 m diameter
|Ship speed= {{convert|12.5|kn|km/h}}
|Ship range=3,250 nm at 12 kn
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|Ship complement=21 civilians
|Ship sensors=Navigation radars only
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|Ship notes=*Transport capacity:
*1100 t of fuel
*60 t fresh water
}}
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The '''''Walchensee''-class tanker''' (Type 703) is a series of four small coastal [[tanker (ship)|tanker]]s, 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==

{|class="wikitable"
|-
![[Pennant number|Pennant<br>number]]
!Name
![[Call sign|Call<br>sign]]
!Launched
!Commissioned
!Decommissioned
!Base/<br>fate
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|A 1424||''Walchensee''||    || July 10, 1965 || June 29, 1966    || December 19, 2001 || sold
|-
|A 1425||''Ammersee''  ||DRKJ|| July 9, 1966 || March 2, 1967   || 31 December 2015 || 
|-
|A 1426||''Tegernsee'' ||DRKK|| October 22, 1966 || March 23, 1967   || 31 December 2015 || 
|-
|A 1427||''Westensee'' ||    || April 8, 1967 || October 6, 1967 || September 30, 2003 || scrapped 2009
|}

==See also==
{{Portal|Germany|Energy}}
* [[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]]
*{{sclass|Escambia|replenishment oiler}}

==References==
* [http://www.marine.de/portal/a/marine/kcxml/04_Sj9SPykssy0xPLMnMz0vM0Y_QjzKLNzKOD_SxAMmB2d5mIfqRcNGglFR9X4_83FR9b_0A_YLciHJHR0VFAIhx5Mw!/delta/base64xml/L2dJQSEvUUt3QS80SVVFLzZfMjNfUVRG?yw_contentURL=%2F01DB070000000001%2FW269DMR9806INFODE%2Fcontent.jsp Betriebsstofftransporter WALCHENSEE-Klasse (703)] ([[German language|German]]) - Marine (official homepage of the German Navy)
{{Commons category|Walchensee class tanker}}

== Further reading ==
* Gerhard Koop/Siegfried Breyer: ''Die Schiffe, Fahrzeuge und Flugzeuge der deutschen Marine von 1956 bis heute'', Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Bonn 1996, {{ISBN|3-7637-5950-6}} ([[German language|German]])

{{Ship classes of the Deutsche Marine}}

[[Category:Auxiliary transport ship classes]]
[[Category:Tankers of Germany]]
[[Category:Auxiliary ships of Germany]]
[[Category:Auxiliary ships of the German Navy]]

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