Wangerooge-class tug

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.

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.

The ships are named after East Frisian Islands.

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  Former Wangerooge-class tug Juist, now a diver training vessel
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  Spiekeroog
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  ROU Maldonado, ex-Norderney, moored in Montevideo in 2024

• Seeschlepper WANGEROOGE-Klasse (in German) - Marine (official homepage of the German Navy)