Lutsk (U200)

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Career (Ukraine)

Name:	Lutsk (U200)
Namesake:	Lutsk
Operator:	Ukrainian Navy
Builder:	Leninska Kuznya
Laid down:	January 11, 1991
Launched:	May 22, 1993
Commissioned:	October 14, 1993
In service:	December 30, 1993
Homeport:	Sevastopol
Status:	Active Service
General characteristics
Class and type:	Grisha V class corvette
Displacement:	1070 tons full load
Length:	71.2 meters
Beam:	10.15 meters
Draught:	3.72 meters
Speed:	16 knots
Crew:	86
Armament:	SA-N-4 SAM system (20 Gecko missiles) 1 76.2mm/59 cal DP 1 30 mm AAv 2 SA-N-8 Strela SAM positions 2 dual 21 inch Torpedo tubes 1 RBU-6000 ASW RL 2 DC racks or 18 mines

Lutsk (U200) is a Grisha V class corvette of the Ukrainian Navy.

[edit] History

The Corvette was laid down on January 11, 1991 at the Leninska Kuznya shipyard. The actual building of the ship started on December 27, 1992 and the ship was launched on May 22, 1993.

The ships crew began to move in on October 14, 1993. The corvette was moved from Kyiv to Mykolaiv between November 4 to 16th of 1993. Five day later the Corvette was move again, this time to a port of Sevastopol. On December 30, 1993 an act was signed adding the ship to Ukrainian Navy. The Ukrainian naval flag was raised on the ship on February 12, 1994.

In January 2002 the Corvette was added to Joint Rapid Reaction Force.