Vodnik class

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Vodnik class
Typ ship Wodnik of the Polish Navy
Typ ship Wodnik of the Polish Navy
Overview
Type Training ship
units PolandPoland (naval war flag) ORP Wodnik ex- ORP Gryf ex- Wilhelm Pieck / ex- Luga / Oka
PolandPoland (naval war flag)
German Democratic RepublicGDR (naval war flag)
Soviet UnionSoviet Union (naval war flag)RussiaRussia (naval war flag)
Soviet UnionSoviet Union (naval war flag)AzerbaijanAzerbaijan
Shipyard

Stocznia Północna (North Shipyard), Gdańsk

delivery 1975-1977
Technical specifications
displacement

1,750 ts

length

71.4 meters

width

12.0 meters

Draft

4.0 meters

drive

2 diesel engines with 2,640 kW
2 shafts with controllable pitch propellers

speed

17  kn

Range

7,800  nm

The training ships of Wodnik - class (Project 888) are a further development which is also in the Northern Shipyard in Gdansk for the Soviet Navy built survey vessels of the Moma class (Project 861).

units

  • ORP Vodnik (251)
  • ORP Gryf (252)
  • Wilhelm Pieck (S61)
  • Luga

The Luga was named after the river of the same name and entered service for the Baltic fleet on March 31, 1977 . The home port was Baltiysk . After its decommissioning, it was canceled in Kronstadt in 2006 .

The Luga had no armament and differed from the first three ships of the project by having a more aft main mast. The ship's crew consisted of 56 men and 93 students.

  • Oka

The Oka was also named after a river and entered service for the Caspian Flotilla on May 24, 1977 . When the flotilla was split up between Russia and Azerbaijan , the ship went to the Azerbaijani Navy on July 16, 1992 and is now in service there with hull number T 710. The home port is Baku . Since the takeover, the ship has been armed with a 37 mm W-11M double flak and two 25 mm / L70 double mounts.

Footnotes

  1. a b ORP is the abbreviation for Okręt Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej and the name prefix of Polish warships
  2. Ship data Luga (accessed on January 2, 2011)
  3. Ship data Oka (accessed on January 2, 2011)