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

File:Hochseeschlepper A1440 Juist.jpg, Former ''Wangerooge''-class tug ''Juist'', now a diver training vessel File:Schlepper Spiekeroog A1452.jpg, ''Spiekeroog'' File:ROU Maldonado.jpg, ROU ''Maldonado'', ex-''Norderney'', moored in Montevideo in 2024

References

Sources

Seeschlepper WANGEROOGE-Klasse
(in German) - Marine (official homepage of the German Navy) {{Ship classes of the Deutsche Marine Auxiliary ships of Germany Tugboats of Germany Auxiliary tugboat classes Auxiliary ships of the German Navy