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KOREAN PEOPLE'S ARMY NAVAL FORCE (NORTH KOREA)

ESCORTS

project 53 corvettes (1938/1953)

1965

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
(i) (ex-T-2 Tros) 671   190 Yd, Leningrad, USSR // 196 Yd, Leningrad, USSR 5.1935 21.6.1936 9.1938 // 12.1953 in service (2019)
(ii) (ex-T-8 Cheka) 511, later- 1003   201 Yd, Sevastopol, USSR 12.1936 14.3.1938 11.1938 // 12.1953 stricken 2005
  

 

Displacement standard, t

410

Displacement full, t

503

Length, m

62.0

Breadth, m

7.20

Draught, m

2.26

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 42-BMRN-6 diesels

Power, h. p.

2800

Max speed, kts

17.8

Fuel, t

diesel oil 60

Endurance, nm(kts)

3000(13.9)

Armament

1 x 1 - 100/56 B-24-BM, 3 x 1 - 37/73 70K, 4 x 1 - 12.7/79, 2 DCR (20), 31 mines, mechanical minesweeping gear

Electronic equipment none

Complement

44

Project history: Former Soviet Project 53 coastal minesweepers, used as patrol ships.

Modernizations: early 1990s, No671: - 1 x 1 - 100/56, 3 x 1 - 37/73, 4 x 1 - 12.7/79, 2 DCR, mechanical sweeping gear; + 1 x 1 - 85/55 ZIS-S-53 (in tank turret), 2 x 2 - 37/63 V-11M, 4 x 2 - 14.5/89, type 351, Don-2 radars, 4x 6-round decoy RL, displacement became 440/580t, fuel stowage became 96t (4100/14nm), complement was 60.

Naval service: In late 1980s both were presumably stricken but later one (or may be both) was re-commissioned.

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