Helgoland-class tug

Schichau Lower Weser AG, Bremerhaven

1557 ts

67.91 meters

12.42 meters

4.2 meters

34 ( civil )

Diesel-electric drive: 4 MWM Tb 12 RS 18/22 diesel engines with alternators 2 DC traction motors with a total of 3,300 hp

17 kn

5,800 sm at 13 kn

314 m³

A Breda 40mm/L70 double carriage ( kokoniert )

36 tbp

The second Helgoland class in the history of the German navies is a production run of two salvage tugs of the class 720

Design

The hull is in the form of ice-strengthened Maier (Finnish ice class 1A) built and divided into nine watertight compartments. The bodies are made ​​of light metal. The ships have NBC protection, magnetic self-protection and for the ride in Ice Areas in the front mast closed the crow's nest. The application is unlimited.

Shipyard was the Schichau Lower Weser AG ( yard numbers 442 and 451) in Bremerhaven.

Equipment

  • A towing device with a bollard pull of 36 tbp
  • An 8- t- derrick
  • A diver auxiliary lifting device
  • A decompression chamber
  • Two motor boats work for 20 people each and with divers platform
  • An electric underwater welder
  • A salvage air compressor
  • Two foreign bilge pumps with a capacity of 1,000 m³ / h
  • Four fire fighting monitors with 100 m³ / h
  • Various workshops
  • A high-resolution sonar to wreck search
  • Arming A Breda 40mm/L70 double mount on the back ( first kokoniert and later removed)
  • Two side throw points for laying mines

Units

  • 720/ 01 Helgoland ( 1966-2002 )

After putting on 8 March 1966, Helgoland to the 2nd Squadron supply ( from April 1997 Albatross Squadron ) and was stationed at the naval base of Wilhelmshaven. On 19 December 1997 she was decommissioned and sold to the Uruguayan Navy in 1998. There, the ship is as ROU 22 Oyarvide in use.

  • 720/ 02 Fehmarn ( since 1967 )

The Fehmarn introduced on 1 February 1967 in service and first belonged also to the second supply squadron. With the decommissioning of the Reserveflottille taken on September 12, 1968, which Fehmarn was reactivated for the first supply squadron already on 15 July 1969, was then mainly as a backup ship for the Ubootlehrgruppe in use.

After the dissolution of Ubootlehrgruppe the home port 1989 by Neustadt in Holstein moved to Olpenitz and since November 2005 the Fehmarn in Kiel is stationed. Since April 1997 she has been subordinated to the Albatross Squadron.

Although made ​​as a second unit in service, called the German Navy today, presumably because only the Fehmarn in service, the two ships as Fehmarn class ( 720).

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