Spessart A-1442

Type:
Tanker
(Große Betriebsstofftransporter)

Class:
Rhön (Type 704A)
Builder:
Kröger-Werft
Rendsburg, Germany
Hull Number:
A-1422
Ordered:
N/A
Commissioned:
September 5, 1977
Keel Laid:
August 23, 1974
Decommissioned:
Launched:
February 13, 1975
Stricken:


Fate:
Active
Homeport: Kiel, Germany



Dimensions, machinery and performance
Length:
426' 5" (130 m)
Engines:
1 MaK Diesel
Beam:
62' 3" (19 m)
Boilers:
N/A
Draft:
28' 5" (8.7 m)
Shafts:
1
Displacement:
6,209 GRT / 10,950 DWT
HP:
8,000 (5.888 mw)
Speed:
16.3 knots
Crew:
42 (civilian)
Range:
7,457 NM @ 16.3 knots / 15,834 NM @ 8.8 knots


Armament as built
Number Carried
Type
Arrangement
Notes
1
Fliegerfaust FLF 2
(Stinger)
portable launcher
(MANPADS)



History
Conversion from merchant Tanker: ex Okapi (Bulk Acid Carriers Inc., Monrovia, Liberia
Danish firm) at MWB Motorenwerke Bremerhaven AG, Bremerhaven, Germany.

Last modernization: August 2006 - Feb. 2007 at Blohm & Voss, Hamburg, Germany.

Planned for decommissioning in 2010.


This page was created by Rolf W. Luedecke, Celle, Germany.


Class Overview
Builder's Data
Page published Apr. 7, 2008