Workshop ship

British workshop ship RFA Diligence with the frigate HMS Cornwall alongside

The American workshop ship USS Ulysses (ARB-9), which was later handed over to the German Navy as Odin

A workshop ship is an auxiliary ship whose main task is the repair of ships or aircraft. Ships that are not only specialized in repairs, but also have other support tasks, are called tenders or escort ships.

There are workshop ships in naval forces , shipping authorities, at shipyards and in private shipping companies.

The workshop ship Jan of the Cologne-Düsseldorfer

In the Federal Navy there were two workshop ships named Odin and Wotan , which were assigned to the naval arsenal in Olpenitz and Wilhelmshaven . They were decommissioned after 1990.

literature

• Jürgen Gebauer, Egon Krenz: Marine Encyclopedia. 4th revised edition. Brandenburg publishing house. Berlin 1998. ISBN 978-3-87748-657-3

Web links

Commons : Workshop Ships  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Marine Glossary. In: German Maritime Institute . Retrieved May 28, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Jürgen Gebauer, Egon Krenz: Marineenzyklopädie. 4th revised edition. Brandenburg publishing house. Berlin 1998. ISBN 978-3-87748-657-3 , pp. 434 f.
3. ↑ Workshop ship in the range of services offered by the Deutz shipyard in Cologne , accessed on May 27, 2018.
4. ^ Siegfried Breyer, Gerhard Koop: The ships, vehicles and planes of the German Navy 1956 until today. Munich 1996, ISBN 3-7637-5950-6 .