Vinnytsia (U206)
.jpg) the Soviet project 1124P border guard ship | |
| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Name: | Grisha II class (1124 P) corvette |
| Builders: | Zelenodol'sk SSZ |
| Operators: |
 Russia,  Ukraine |
| Preceded by: | Grisha class (1124) corvette |
| Built: | 1972—1983 |
| Completed: | 12 |
| Active: |
1  Ukrainian Navy |
| Career (Ukraine) | |
| Name: | Vinnytsia (U206) |
| Namesake: | Vinnytsia |
| Operator: | Ukrainian Navy |
| Builder: | Zelenodol'sk SSZ, (Russia) |
| Yard number: | 775 |
| Laid down: | December 23, 1975 |
| Launched: | June 17, 1976 |
| Commissioned: | September 12, 1976 |
| In service: |
December 31, 1976 (Coast Guard) January 19, 1996 (Navy) |
| Renamed: | 1996, Dnepr to Vinnitsya |
| Reclassified: | 1996, Border guard patrol ship to corvette |
| Badge: |
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| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Grisha II class |
| Displacement: | standard 830 tons, full load 990 tons |
| Length: | 71.2 meters |
| Beam: | 10.1 meters |
| Draught: | 3.8 meters |
| Propulsion: | 3 shaft, 2 × М-507А cruise diesels, 38,000 shp, (2 shafts) 1 × М-8М boost gas turbine 18,000 shp, (1 shaft) Electric Plant: 1×DG-500 (500 kW), 1×DG-300 (300 kW), 1×DG-200 (200 kW) |
| Speed: | full 35 knots, economic 14 knots |
| Range: | 2,500 nautical miles (at 14 knots) |
| Endurance: | 9 days |
| Crew: | 79 (9 chiefs) |
| Sensors and processing systems: | Radar: MR-302 Rubka air/surface search radar; MR-1031 AK-725 fire control radar; Don-2 navigation radar Sonar: MGK-322T Argun'/Bull Horn low-frequency hull-mounted sonar; MGK-339T Shelon'/Elk Tail medium-frequency through-hull dipping sonar |
| Electronic warfare and decoys: | Bizan-4B suite with Watch Dog intercept, 2 PK-16 decoy RL |
| Armament: | artillery: 2×2 57mm AK-725 gun mount (1000 rounds); antisubmarine: 2 twin 533 mm torpedo tubes DTA-5E-1124 2 RBU-6000 A/S rocket launchers (96 rockets) 2 depth charge racks (12 depth charges) Up to 18 mines in place of depth charges |
Vinnytsia (U206) is an anti-submarine corvette of the Ukrainian Navy. Former KGB Border Guard Patrol Ship Dnepr. In March, 2014, it was confiscated by unknown soldiers and became de facto under control of the Russian Black Sea Fleet. The ship was handed back to Ukraine in May 2014.[1]
History
Vinnytsia is the ship 1124P project (NATO reporting name: Grisha II class, in the Soviet classification: Albatros class Russian: Альбатрос).[2]
Russian type designation is Border Guard Patrol Ship — modifications of the Small Anti-Submarine Ship.
The Grisha class anti-submarine ship is designed to search for and destroy enemy submarines found in coastal areas. They were equipped with a variety of ASW weapons. All were fitted with retractable fin stabilizers. Some of them — the Grisha II class — were built for the border guard.[3]
The Grisha II class ships were built between 1972 and 1983. These ships had a second 57 mm gun mounting replacing the SA-N-4 missile system forward .[4]
Two ships — Dnepr and Izmail were transferred to the Ukrainian Navy .[5]
Service
The Corvette Dnepr was laid down on December 23, 1975 at the Zelenodol'sk Maxim Gorky shipyard. The ship was launched on June 17, 1976. The corvette was moved from Zelenodol'sk to Sea of Azov along the Volga and Don. Some day later the Corvette was moved again, this time to a port of Sevastopol for testing.
On December 24, 1976 an act was signed adding the ship to the Border Guard Service of USSR. The Soviet Maritime Border Guard flag was raised on the ship on December 31, 1976.
Service in the Coastguard
The ship took part in guarding the state border, the economic zone of the USSR and fishing off the coast of the Crimean peninsula in the Black Sea.
Mission
- 1977 — in the campaign in the Black Sea from Zmiinyi Island until the Strait of Kerch,
- 1978 — in the campaign in the Black Sea from Odessa Port until the Novorossiysk Port,
- 1979 — in the campaign in the Black Sea from Cape Tarkhanku until the Novorossiysk Port,
- 1980 — in the campaign in the Black Sea from Cape Tarkhanku until the Ochamchira Port,
- 1981 — in the campaign in the Black Sea along the Southern coast of Crimea.
In June 1992, joined part the Coast Guard of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine.
Service in the Navy
In late 1995 it was decided to transfer Dnepr and Izmail ships to the Naval Forces of Ukraine. The Ukrainian naval flag was raised on the ship on January 19, 1996. Ship renamed Vinnitsya and reclassified to corvette.
Since 5 March 2014, Lutsk has been blocked on the Donuzlav Lake.
The Naval activity
- July 1996 — the naval multinational exercise Cooperative Partner—96 (Bulgaria),
- August 1996 — the strategic exercise Sea—96,
- August—September 1996 — the naval multinational exercise Classic—96 (Romania),
- April 1998 — the Ukrainian-Russian naval exercise,
- April 1999 — naval tactical exercises,
- August 1999 — the Ukrainian-Russian naval exercise Farvater Miru—99 (English: Fairway peace—99),
- April 2000 — naval tactical exercises,
- June 2000 — the naval multinational exercise Cooperative Partner—2000,
- 2002 — the naval multinational exercise Breeze—2002, strategic exercise Farvater Forpost—2002, naval tactical exercises,
- 2003 — the naval multinational exercises Breeze—2003, Farvater Miru—2003, Cooperative Partner—2003, Black Sea Partner—2003, The BLACKSEAFOR Activation.
- 2007 — the strategic exercise Artery—2007, Morsky vusol—2007 (English: Nautical knot—2007).
Captain in active (2009) Captain, 3rd rank Alexander Kostyuk.
References
- ↑ (Russian) On the mainland of Ukraine Ukrainian Navy ships arrived from the Crimea - Ministry of Defense, DELO (7 May 2014)
- ↑ "Project 1124 Albatros Grisha class. GlobalSecurity.org".
- ↑ "Project 1124 Albatros Grisha class. Federation of American Saintists".
- ↑ "1124* Grisha I-V class large ASW corvettes. warfare.ru".
- ↑ "Малый противолодочный корабль "Днепр". Flot.sevastopol.info." (in Russian).
- ↑ "Стремительный "Альбатрос". Рogranichnik.ru." (in Russian).
- ↑ Корвет "Тернопіль" — новий "альбатрос" українського флоту. Євген Силкін, Морська держава (in Ukrainian).
- (Ukrainian) Photogallery of Vinnitsya
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