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LATVIAN NAVY (LATVIA)

COASTAL FORCES

ZIBENS patrol craft (1971/1993)

Zibens 1993

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Zibens (ex-Josef Schares) P01   Primorskiy Yd, Leningrad, USSR     10/1971 // 30.8.1993 retired 2001
Gauja (ex-Heinrich Dorrenbach) P02   Primorskiy Yd, Leningrad, USSR     9/1971 // 30.8.1993 not placed in service
(ex-Otto Tost) P03   Primorskiy Yd, Leningrad, USSR     9/1971 // 30.8.1993 not placed in service

 

Displacement standard, t

184

Displacement full, t

226

Length, m

38.6

Breadth, m

7.60

Draught, m

1.84

No of shafts

3

Machinery

3 M-504B diesels

Power, h. p.

15000

Max speed, kts

42

Fuel, t

diesel oil

Endurance, nm(kts)

1800(14)

Armament

P01 since 1996: 1 x 2 - 30/71 AK-230, 1 x 2 - 23/82 Wrobel ZU-23-2

Sensors

MR-101 Rangout radar

Complement

26

Project history: Former Volsmarine's project 205 fast attack craft (missile), transferred disarmed. Only one craft was commissioned, two others were used for cannibalization.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

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