Lithuanian Navy
Lithuanian Naval Forces |
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Coat of arms of the Lithuanian naval forces |
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Country | Lithuania |
Armed forces | Lithuanian Army |
Type | Armed forces ( navy ) |
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Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces |
Defense Minister (in case of war: President of the Republic of Lithuania ) |
Military Commander of the Armed Forces |
Lieutenant General Valdemaras Rupšys |
Commander of the Naval Forces |
Sea captain Giedrius Premeneckas |
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Naval war flag | |
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The Lithuanian Naval Forces ( Lithuanian Karinės jūrų pajėgos ) are part of the Lithuanian Army and are subordinate to the Lithuanian Ministry of Defense . The commander of the naval forces is the sea captain Giedrius Premeneckas. The most important base of the naval forces is Klaipėda .
history
The historic Royal Republic of Poland-Lithuania already had a fleet, the founder of which is Sigismund II August . However, with the decline of the state, this increasingly lost its importance. It was not until 1923 that control over the Memel region and the port city of Klaipėda had been obtained that Lithuania, which had become independent in 1918, began to build up its own naval forces again. For this purpose, a German minesweeper was acquired in 1927 and put into service as the training ship Prezidentas Smetona . On August 1, 1935, the Navy General was Stasys Raštikis into an independent armed force charged. Only a few years later, its temporary end was sealed when the Memel region fell back to Germany in 1939 and the rest of Lithuania was occupied by the Soviet Union the following year without resistance.
After Lithuania regained independence in 1990/91, the naval forces, like the other branches of the armed forces, were reorganized. The date of the re-establishment of the navy is now July 4th 1992. To build up an own fleet, two former Soviet corvettes were taken over in the following period. In 1993, the Russian Federation handed over the coastal defense of the country to the Lithuanian naval forces. At the end of 1996 a cooperation with the naval forces of Estonia and Latvia began . From this the joint Baltic Sea Squadron BALTRON developed over the next two years .
When Lithuania joined NATO on March 29, 2004, as in the other Baltic states, the fleet was completely modernized. In 2009, a rescue center ( Lithuanian Jūrų Gelbėjimo coordinavimo centras ) was set up within the naval forces , the task of which is to coordinate sea rescue operations and fight oil and hazardous material accidents .
Since the reorganization of the navy in the 1990s, it has become common practice to name the ships after the historical regions of Lithuania.
Commander of the Naval Forces
Since its reconstruction in 1992, the Lithuanian naval forces have been led by the following officers:
Surname | period of service | comment |
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Juozapas Algis Leisis | 1992 | |
Raimundas Saulius Baltuška | 1992-1999 | |
Kęstutis Macijauskas | April 28, 1999 - June 4, 2008 | |
Artūras Stankaitis | June 4, 2008 - October 24, 2008 | interim |
Olegas Mariničius | October 24, 2008 - March 1, 2010 | |
Artūras Stankaitis | March 2, 2010 - April 30, 2010 | interim |
Kęstutis Macijauskas | April 30, 2010 - July 27, 2015 | 2. Term of office |
Arūnas Mockus | August 2, 2015 - August 11, 2020 | |
Giedrius Premeneckas | since August 11, 2020 |
organization
structure
The naval forces are divided into six areas:
- Fleet ( Lithuanian Karo laivų flotilė )
- Divers department ( Povandeninių veiksmų komanda )
- Maritime and coastal surveillance ( Jūros ir pakrančių stebėjimo tarnyba )
- Maritime Rescue Coordination Center ( Jūrų Gelbėjimo coordinavimo centras )
- Logistics department ( Logistikos tarnyba )
- Training center ( Mokymo centras )
Ranks and Rank Badges
Rank group | Flag officers | Staff officers | Subaltern officers | ||||||
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Rank | Viceadmirolas | Contradirolas | Flotilės admirolas | Jūrų kapitonas | Komandoras | Komandoras guide antas | Kapitonas guiding fantasies | Vyresnysis guiding fantasies | Leadership fantasies |
Rank (Bundeswehr) |
Vice admiral | Rear admiral | Flotilla admiral | Sea captain | Frigate captain | Corvette Captain | Lieutenant captain | First lieutenant at sea | Lieutenant at sea |
NATO rank code | OF-8 | OF-7 | OF-6 | OF-5 | OF-4 | OF-3 | OF-2 | OF-1 |
Rank group | NCOs | ||||||||
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Rank | Vyresnysis laivūnas |
Laivūnas | Štabo laivūnas |
Štabo laivūnas specialistas |
Vyresnysis seržantas |
Vyresnysis seržantas specialistas |
Seržantas | Seržantas specialistas |
Grandinis |
Rank (Bundeswehr) |
Chief of Staff | Staff Captain | Chief Boatswain |
Captain / Boatswain |
Chief Mate / Mate |
Oberstabsgefreiter / Stabsgefreiter |
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NATO rank code | OR-9 | OR-8 | OR-7 | OR-6 | OR-5 | OR-4 |
Rank group | Teams | ||
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Rank | Vyresnysis jūreivis | Jūreivis | Jaunesnysis jūreivis |
Rank (Bundeswehr) |
Hauptgefreiter / Obergefreiter |
Private | sailor |
NATO rank code | OR-3 | OR-2 | OR-1 |
equipment
The ships of the naval flotilla can be assigned to three areas:
- Anti-Mine Squadron ( Lithuanian Priešmininių laivų divizionas )
- Patrol Squadron ( Patrulinių laivų divizionas )
- Auxiliary Ship Squadron ( Pagalbinių laivų divizionas )
Current fleet
Surname | photo | origin | Ship class | use | Built | Commissioning (Lithuania) | Remarks |
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Anti-Mine Squadron | |||||||
M52 Sūduvis | Germany | Lindau class | Mine hunting boat | 1957 | 1999 | Ex- Koblenz of the German Navy | |
M53 scalvis | United Kingdom | Hunt class | Mine defense & mine hunting | 1982 | 2011 | Ex- Cottesmore of the Royal Navy | |
M54 courses | United Kingdom | Hunt class | Mine defense & mine hunting | 1982 | 2011 | Ex- Dulverton of the Royal Navy | |
N42 Jotvingis | Norway | Vidar class | Command and supply ship | 1977 | 2006 | Ex- Vidar of the Norwegian Navy | |
Patrol squadron | |||||||
P11 Žemaitis | Denmark | Flyvefisken class | Multifunctional patrol ship | 1986 | 2008 | Ex- Flyvefisken of the Danish Navy | |
P12 Dzūkas | Denmark | Flyvefisken class | Multifunctional patrol ship | 1989 | 2009 | Ex- Hajen of the Danish Navy | |
P14 aukštaitis | Denmark | Flyvefisken class | Multifunctional patrol ship | 1993 | 2010 | Ex- Lommen of the Danish Navy | |
P15 Sėlis | Denmark | Flyvefisken class | Multifunctional patrol ship | 1990 | 2017 | Ex- Havkatten of the Danish Navy | |
Auxiliary ship squadron | |||||||
H21 | Soviet Union | Harbor cutter | 1983 | 1992 | |||
H22 | Sweden | tractor | 1955 | 2000 | |||
PGL Šakiai | Soviet Union | SAR ship | 1986 | 2009 | Taken over from the port of Klaipėda on February 26, 2009 (together with the relevant tasks). |
Former fleet
Surname | photo | origin | Ship class | use | Built | Commissioning (Lithuania) | Decommissioning | Remarks |
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Prezidentas Smetona | The German Imperium | Minesweeper 1916 | Training and patrol ship | 1917 | 1935 | - | Ex- SMS M 59 of the Imperial Navy , acquired by Lithuania in 1927, taken over by the Soviet Union in 1940 , sunk in 1945 by a German submarine or a mine. | |
A41 Vėtra | Soviet Union | Valerian Uryvayev class | Supply ship | 1977 | 1992 | 2007 | Ex- Rudolf Samoylovich | |
F11 Žemaitis | Soviet Union | Grisha III class | Patrol ship | 1981 | 1992 | 2008 | Ex-MPK-108 ( Komsomolets Latviy ) of the Soviet Navy | |
F12 aukštaitis | Soviet Union | Grisha III class | Patrol ship | 1980 | 1992 | 2010 | Ex-MPK-44 of the Soviet Navy | |
P31 Dzūkas | Norway | Storm class | Coast Guard & Guard Service |
1967 | 1995 | 2007 | Ex- Kjekk of the Norwegian Navy | |
M51 courses | Germany | Lindau class | Mine hunting boat | 1957 | 2000 | 2017 | Ex- Marburg of the German Navy . The name Kuršis was given in 2011. A further civil use of the ship failed due to a lack of investors. On August 7, 2018, the decommissioned, demilitarized ship was sent for recycling. | |
P32 Sėlis | Norway | Storm class | Coast Guard & Guard Service | 1966 | 2001 | 2017 | Ex- Skudd of the Norwegian Navy | |
P33 scalvis | Norway | Storm class | Coast Guard & Guard Service |
1967 | 2001 | 2011 | Ex- Steil of the Norwegian Navy | |
H23 ( Lokys ) | Denmark | Harbor cutter | 1941 | 2005 | 2014 | Used by the military volunteer association Savanorių pajėgos until 2005 after the handover from Denmark . |
See also
literature
- Karine jūrų PAJĖGOS Istorijos metraštis (publication of the naval forces of the 20th anniversary of the reestablishment) - as a PDF file on the website of the naval forces (Download source) available
- Eric Wertheim: The Naval Institute Guide to Combat Fleets of the World: Their Ships, Aircraft, and Systems , US Naval Institute Press, 2007, ISBN 1-59114-955-X , pp. 449 ff.
Web links
- Naval Forces website (English & Lithuanian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Vadovybė (Lithuanian)
- ↑ a b Information on the history on the website of the Navy (English)
- ↑ a b c Information on the history on the website of the Navy (Lithuanian)
- ↑ a b Karo laivų flotilė (Lithuanian)
- ↑ a b Press release on the website of the armed forces on the occasion of the takeover of the ship, November 24, 2016, accessed on January 11, 2017 (Lithuanian)
- ↑ Press release on the occasion of the handover of the ship to the Navy (Lithuanian)
- ↑ Message from balsas.lt regarding the location of the wreck from December 12, 2007, accessed on July 11, 2014 (Lithuanian).
- ↑ Press release with a short history of the ship on the website of the naval forces on the occasion of the last flag down (Lithuanian)
- ↑ Press release with a short history of the ship on the website of the naval forces on the occasion of the last flag down (Lithuanian)
- ↑ reporting www.alfa.de of 23 July 2018 Retrieved on August 10, 2018 (Lithuanian)
- ↑ Press release on the website of the armed forces on the occasion of the last voyage of the ship, August 8, 2018, accessed on August 8, 2018 (Lithuanian)
- ↑ Press release with a short history of the ship on the website of the naval forces on the occasion of the last flag down (Lithuanian)