List of ships of the Ukrainian Navy

List of the Navy of the Ukrainian People's Republic ships

Yellow & blue flag on the cruiser Pamiat Merkuria, November 1917

On October 17, 1917, the 2nd rank Captain Ye.Akimov was appointed the representative of the Central Council of Ukraine at the command of the Black Sea Fleet. In November 1917, the Sahaidachny Sea Battalion (kurin) was established in Sevastopol, which, on November 24, 1917, was sent to Kiev and participated in the Kiev Arsenal January Uprising. On December 29, 1917, most of the Black Sea Fleet sided with the Bolsheviks. Earlier, in December 1917, the Ukrainian squadron led by the Russian battleship Imperator Aleksandr III, including another cruiser and three destroyers, participated in the evacuation of the 127th Infantry Division from Trebizond back to Ukraine.

Baltic Fleet

• Soviet cruiser Krasnyi Krym (October 12, 1917)
• Russian destroyer Ukraina (October 12, 1917)
• Russian destroyer Haidamak (October 12, 1917)

Black Sea Fleet

• Russian battleship Georgii Pobedonosets (November 9, 1917)
• Russian cruiser Pamiat Merkuria (November 12, 1917)
• Russian destroyer Zorkiy (November 12, 1917)
• Russian destroyer Zvonkiy (November 12, 1917)
• Russian battleship Imperator Aleksandr III (November 22, 1917)
• Russian battleship Imperatritsa Ekaterina Velikaya

Vessels captured during the 2014 Crimean crisis

List of captured ships of the Ukrainian Navy.^[1] On 8 April 2014, an agreement had been reached between Russia and Ukraine to return captured vessels to Ukraine and "for the withdrawal of an undisclosed number of Ukrainian aircraft seized in Crimea".^[2] At the time, Russian naval sources claimed that the Ukrainian ships were "not operational because they are old, obsolete, and in poor condition".^[2]

Class	Photo	Type	Ships	Origin	Commissioned	Note
Corvettes (4 in service)
Grisha		Anti-submarine ships	U-205 Lutsk U-206 Vinnytsia U-209 Ternopil	Soviet Union  Ukraine	1993 1976 2006	All mentioned ships were raided by unidentified military, raised Russian flags. All 3 ships were handed back to Ukraine in May 2014.[3]
Tarantul		Missile corvette	U-155 Prydniprovya	Soviet Union	1984
Pauk		Anti-submarine ship	U-208 Khmelnytskyi	Soviet Union	1985	May also be incorporated into the Black Sea Fleet.[4]
Fast attack vessels (1 in service)
Matka		Missile boat	U-153 Pryluky	Soviet Union	1980s	Ship returned to the Ukrainian Naval Forces from Crimea occupied by Russia.
Submarine vessels (1 in service)
Foxtrot		Patrol submarine	U-01 Zaporizhzhia	Soviet Union	1970	Was taken over by Russian forces but is too obsolete to join Russia's Black Sea Fleet.[5]
Supporting vessels (4 in service)
Natya		Marine minesweepers	U-310 Chernihiv U-311 Cherkasy	Soviet Union	1974	Cherkasy tried twice to negotiate the ships scuttled by the Russians at Donuzlav Bay.[6] Her crew fended off one vigorous attempt by Russian speedboats to seize the vessel.[7] She was eventually disabled and captured on 25 March by the tug Kovel, three speedboats, and two Mi-35 helicopters.[8][9][10]
Polnocny		Landing craft tank	U-401 Kirovohrad	Poland	1985	Ship returned to the Ukrainian Naval Forces from Crimea occupied by Russia.
Yevgenya		Harbour minesweeper	U-360 Henichesk	Soviet Union	1980s
Ropucha		Landing ship tank	U-402 Kostiantyn Olshansky	Poland	1985	Disabled by own crew during an assault.[11]
Auxiliary vessels (3 in service)
Bambuk		Command ship	U-510 Slavutych	Soviet Union	1990	On 2 March, the crew of the Slavutych thwarted an attempt to capture the vessel by a boat manned by unidentified armed personnel.[12]
Toplivo		Tanker	U-760 Fastiv	Soviet Union	1981
Boda		Depot ship	U-756 Sudak	Soviet Union	1957

Voluntarily surrendered

The following ships were voluntarily surrendered to the Russian Navy:

Class	Photo	Type	Ships	Origin	Commissioned	Note
Auxiliary vessels (3 in service)
Amur		Command ship	U-500 Donbas	Poland
?		Rescue tugboat	U-705 Kremenets	Finland	1983
Роzharnу		Fire boat	U-722 Borshchiv	Soviet Union	1954

Retired, suspended and unlisted ships

Class	Photo	Type	Ships	Origin	Commissioned	Note
Cruiser (1 construction suspended)
Slava		Large Cruiser	Ukrayina	Soviet Union		Waiting for scrapping - unfinished, no plans for completion.
Frigate (4 unlisted)
Petya		Multipurpose Frigate	Otaman Bilyi (U132)	Soviet Union	1968	Unlisted: 1993, never really entered service, better known as SKR-112
Krivak		Frigates	U-132 Sevastopol U-133 Mykolaiv U-134 Dnipropetrovsk	Soviet Union	1974 1979 1978	Unlisted: 2004 2001 2002
Corvettes (5 unlisted, 2 construction suspended)
Tarantul		Missile corvette	U-156 Kremenchuk	Soviet Union	1985	Unlisted: 2012 (used as floating barracks)
Pauk		Anti-submarine ship	U-207 Uzhhorod	Soviet Union	1982	Unlisted: 2012[13]
Grisha		Anti-submarine ships	U-209 Sumy U-210 Kherson U-205 Chernihiv	Soviet Union	1974 1971 1980	Unlisted: 1998 1999 2005
Mukha		Small anti-submarine ships	U-201 Lviv U-203 Luhansk	Soviet Union		Construction of both was suspended.
Fast attack vessels (4 unlisted)
Matka		Missile boats	U-150 Konotop U-151 Tsyurupinsk U-152 Uman U-154 Kakhovka	Soviet Union	1981 1981 1979 1980	1999 given away to Georgia Unlisted: 2000 2008 2012
Landing crafts (8 unlisted)
Sonya		Base minesweepers	U-331 Mariupol U-330 Melitopol[14]	Soviet Union	1978 1979	Unlisted: 2012 2013
Zubr		Air-cushioned landing craft	U-421 Ivan Bohun U-423 Horlivka U-422 Kramatorsk U-424 Artemivsk U-420 Donetsk	Soviet Union  Ukraine	2001 1991 1988 1989 1993	2001 sold to Greece 2001 sold to Greece Unlisted: 1999 2000 2008
Alligator		Landing ship tank	U-401 Rivne	Soviet Union	1971	Unlisted: 2004 - sold to private firm.
Auxiliary vessels (1 unlisted)
Moma		Scout boat	U-511 Simferopol	Poland	1973	Unlisted: 2012 (2006-2012 training ship)
Katun I		Transport	U-754 Dzhankoi	Soviet Union	1968	Unlisted: 2013[15]
?		Floating dock	U-533 Kolomyia			Unlisted:

Auxiliary fleet

Class	Photo	Type	Ships	Origin	Commissioned	Note
Special operations (1 in service)
Muna		Scout ship	U-512 Pereyaslav	Soviet Union	1987
Tankers and transport (2 in service)
Yuniy Partizan		Freight ship	U-753 Horlivka	Hungary	1965	Possibly captured by Russians
Toplivo		Tanker	U-759 Bakhmach	Soviet Union	1972	Possibly captured by Russians
Training vessels (5 in service)
?		Training boat	U-540 Chyhyryn U-541 Smila U-542 Nova Kakhovka	Poland	1984 1985 1986	All possibly captured by Russians
?		Training boat	U-544 Tytan
?		Patrol boat	U-543 Voznesensk
Geographic vessels (1 in service)
?		Geographic ship	U-602 Alchevsk

Support vessels

• U811 Balta - Bereza class deperming vessel
• U812 Sieverodonetsk - Onega class hydroacoustic monitoring ship and physical fields measuring vessel
• U830 Korets - Sorum class seagoing tug
• U831 Kovel - Goliat class seagoing tug
• U852 Shostka - Sura class mooring tender
• U941 - BUK-239(1954)
• U942 Novoozerne - BUK-261(1956)
• U947 Krasnoperekopsk - Anton Mayin class harbor tug
• U953 Dubno - Project 737M harbor tug

Cutters - small craft

• U001 - Project 371
• U171 - Project 722 artillery cutter
• U172
• U173
• U240 Feodosiya - Tanya class harbor launch
• U540 Chyhyryn
• U541 Smila
• U542 Nova Kahovka
• U734 - Yaroslav class port security boat
• U782 Sokal
• U783 Ilichevsk
• U853 Shyliavka - Project 1387
• U854 Dobropilia
• U891 Kherson - Shelon class torpedo recovery vessel
• U926 - Yaroslav class coastal patrol craft
• U937
• U938 - Yaroslav class port security boat
• U951 Velyka Aleksandrovka
• Ostroh

Note: In February 2014, it was announced that a contract to supply four U.S. built patrol boats to the Ukrainian Navy had been awarded by the United States Navy, via the Foreign Military Sales program. The patrol boats, of 11-meter and 7-meter designs, are to be built by Willard Marine.^[16]

Other

• U538 Tarpan - T-4 class landing craft
• U635 Skvyra - large hydrographic cutter
• U706 Iziaslav - rescue towboat

See also

• List of active Ukrainian Navy ships

References