Westerwald class

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Westerwald class
Overview
Ship type : Ammunition transporter
Ship class: 760
Type ship: Westerwald
Units: 2
Builder: Orenstein & Koppel, Lübeck
Keel laying: 1965
Launch: 1966
Period of service: 1967-2010
Data
Displacement: 3460 tons
Length over all: 98.80 meters
Width: 14.02 m
Draft: 3.56 m
Drive: 2 × Maybach diesel ,
each 2060 kW (2800 PS)
Fuel supply: 246 m³
Speed: 15 knots
Crew
(mil. / Civil):		 60/31
Armament: four 40 mm anti-aircraft guns in double mounts with military personnel

The auxiliary ships of the Westerwald class (officially: Class 760 ) were ammunition transports of the German Navy from 1967 to 2010. Their main task was to transport ammunition and material for warships at sea .

General

As part of the auxiliary ship program of 1959, drafts for the construction of class 706 ammunition transporters were drawn up in 1963/64. At the end of 1964, the Orenstein & Koppel shipyard in Lübeck received the order to build two Class 706 ships, later renamed Class 760.

In the mid-1980s, the two ammunition transporters received the “complete package for maneuvering technology”, consisting of a transverse thrust system , Becker rudder and “GUY” reduction gear. The supply stations on the Westerwald were subsequently enlarged, with external platforms that could be folded out to the side.

Armament was only available during the time when a military crew was on board.

The Odenwald was mainly used for the transport of MM-38 missiles to and from Brest / France . The Westerwald was used as a supplier in addition to transporting ammunition. Often times there was a deployment as a supplier in speedboat or minesweeping squadrons when the tender subordinate to the squadrons was not available.

The two units were officially reclassified as utilities in the 1990s. The Westerwald received class 760A and the Odenwald class 760B.

units

  • A 1435 Westerwald (1967-2010)

The Westerwald was put into service on February 11, 1967 for the supply flotilla. The home base became Flensburg-Mürwik . On October 1, 1967, she was placed under the newly established 1st Supply Squadron. The civilian crew of the fuel transporter Eifel , which was decommissioned on March 26, 1992, took over the Westerwald, which had previously been under military occupation, on April 1, 1992 . At the same time she was subordinated to the 2nd supply squadron in Wilhelmshaven . By combining the first and second supply squadron on 25 March 1997 on the convoy squadron changed for the Westerwald nothing, they remained stationed in Wilhelmshaven.

On May 31, 2010, Westerwald went out of service due to a lack of budget. The decommissioning took place on December 17, 2010.

The last journey in the Westerwald , from which she returned to Wilhelmshaven on April 16, 2010, took her to South Africa . Here she took part in the "Good Hope IV" exercise alongside the 2010 deployment and training association (EAV 2010), which consisted of the frigates Brandenburg and Lower Saxony and the task force supply company Frankfurt am Main . "Good Hope" is a German-South African maneuver that takes place every two years in South Africa around the Cape of Good Hope .

The Westerwald was then in Wilhelmshaven until 2015. It was advertised for sale by Vebeg in summer 2015 .

  • A 1436 Odenwald (1967-2002)

With its commissioning on March 23, 1967, the Odenwald was placed under the supply flotilla. The home base was Wilhelmshaven. With the establishment of the 2nd supply squadron on October 1, 1967, it was subordinated to this. On April 18, 1969, the Odenwald was taken out of service again. It then came to the reserve flotilla as a cocooned trailer . As a replacement for the ammunition transporter Schwarzwald , which was decommissioned on November 29, 1974 , the Odenwald and its civilian crew were put back into service on December 18, 1974 for the 2nd supply squadron in Wilhelmshaven. With the amalgamation of the 1st and 2nd supply squadrons on March 25, 1997, nothing changed for the Odenwald , it remained stationed in Wilhelmshaven.

In the first half of 1991, the Odenwald undertook a total of three trips to the Soviet Union as part of the “Aktion Rußlandhilfe” to transport food. The collapse of the Soviet Union had a catastrophic effect on the country's supply situation. The campaign was intended to set an example for humanity and international understanding. Two trips led to Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg again) and one trip went to Klaipėda (German: Memel).

After the Odenwald was decommissioned on February 7, 2002, it was initially launched in the Wilhelmshaven naval arsenal . The ship was then handed over to the Egyptian Navy on May 22, 2002 together with the supplier Glücksburg , where it was put into service as a Halaib with the registration number 231.

Technical specifications

Propulsion system

  • two Maybach four-stroke 16-cylinder diesel engines with 2060 kW (2800 hp) each
  • two shafts with four - bladed Escher-Wyss controllable pitch propellers, each 2.60 m
  • two oars

Electrical system

  • two diesel generators each with 405 kW (550 PS / 450 kVa)
  • a diesel generator with 224 kW (305 PS / 250 kVa)
  • a diesel generator with 144 kW (195 PS / 135 kVa)

Armament

  • four 40 mm anti-aircraft guns in double mounts during military occupation

equipment

  • three supply stations
  • two 3 t board cranes
  • two 2.5 t booms
  • two bow anchors in deck jacks
  • a stern anchor in anchor bag
  • two motor cutters
  • a dinghy
  • six life rafts

crew

  • 60 military men
  • 31 civilian crew
Surname Identifier Call sign
until Nov. 30, 1981 /
from Dec. 1, 1981 		Sponsored city Shipyard Build number Keel laying Launch Commissioning Decommissioning
Westerwald A1435 DSHK / DRKT Montabaur Orenstein & Koppel 624 11/03/1965 02/25/1966 02/11/1967 December 17, 2010
Odenwald A1436 DSHL / DRKU Lützelbach Orenstein & Koppel 625 11/03/1965 05/05/1966 03/23/1967 02/07/2002

See also

Remarks

  1. ↑ The technical term (in) cocooning used in the navy includes the preservation and (airtight) sealing of a device or even an entire ship. In shipping, a ship that has been taken out of service is called a trailer . Colloquially, this process is also called "mothballing".

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Chronicle of the Supply Flotilla, 1956–1994
  2. ↑ Siegfried Breyer, Gerhard Koop: The ships and vehicles of the German Federal Navy 1956 until today. Bonn 1996, ISBN 3-7637-5950-6 .
  3. ↑ ship number directory 01/2004 ( Memento of 29 December 2009 at the Internet Archive ) Ship number directory, p. 37
  4. ^ A b Wolfgang Harnack: The destroyer flotilla of the German Navy from 1958 to today. Köhler, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-7822-0816-1 .
  5. ↑ Early decommissioning of the supplier WESTERWALD. German Navy, May 7, 2010, accessed May 7, 2010 .
  6. ↑ Out for WESTERWALD after 44 years. In: Nordwest-Zeitung. December 17, 2010, accessed March 5, 2020 .
  7. ↑ catering WESTERWALD returned to Wilhelmshaven. German Navy, April 16, 2010, archived from the original on February 27, 2015 ; Retrieved June 8, 2010 .
  8. ↑ VEBEG's sales offer , accessed on August 4, 2015

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