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BULGARIAN NAVY (BULGARIA)

CONVERTED MERCHANT VESSELS

auxiliary river minesweepers of WWII

100 - 1000 BRT

����� ������ [Vasil Levski] (1925, 241, 1942 - ?.9.1944 Soviet ����-663 [EMTShch-663] - returned 8.1945 - 1946); ����� ����� [Kiril Popov] (1925, 241, 1942 - ?.9.1944 Soviet ����-659 [EMTShch-659] - returned 8.1945 - 1946); ����� [Iskr] (1925, 241, 1942 - ?.9.1944 Soviet ����-662 [EMTShch-662] - returned 8.1945 - 1946); ������ ����� [Khristo Botev] (1906, 106, 11.1944 - 1946); ����� [Tsibr] (1906, 106, 12.1944 - 1946)

Project history: River tugs converted to minesweepers for service on Danube.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

Ivan Gogin, 2009-15