"Riga Class"
(Escort Ship, - Project 50.)
Built: 68 units, 1952
- 1959
Displacement, full load: 1510
tons
Length: 91,5 meters
Breadth: 10,1 meters
Draught: 3,2 meters
Guns: 3 x 100 mm, 4 x 37 mm,
4 x 25 mm.
Anti Submarine Weapons:
2 x 16-Barrelled rocket launchers.
2 Depth charge racks
4 Depth charge throwers (On
some units.)
Torpedo tubes: 2 or 3 - 21"
(533 mm) - twin or triple mount.)
Mines: 28
Propulsion: Turbines, - two
boilers, - two shafts, - 20.000 shp, - 30 knots.
Crew: 175
Riga Class Frigate "853"
(Photography by Karsten Petersen)
Riga Class Frigate "853"
(Photography by Karsten Petersen)
Riga Class Frigate
(Photography by Karsten Petersen)
Riga Class Frigate "853"
(Photography by Karsten Petersen)
Riga Class Frigate "853"
(Photography by Karsten Petersen)
Riga Class Frigate "853"
(Photography by Karsten Petersen)
Riga Class Frigate "853"
(Photography by Karsten Petersen)
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"Petya II" Class
-project 159 Escort Ships -
Built: 1960 - 1972
Displacement: 1150 tons,
full load.
Length: 82,5 meters
Beam: 9,1 meters
Draught: 2,9 meters
Guns: 4 - 3' (76 mm) in twin
mounts.
A/S Weapons: 2 - Anti Submarine
Rocket launchers, 2 -Depth Charge Racks
Torpedo Tubes: 10 pcs. (2 x
5 pcs. 16' (406 mm))
Mines: 22 pcs.
Propulsion: 1 diesel, 6000hp.,
- 2 gas turbines 30.000 hp, - 3 shafts, - 32 knots.
Crew: 98
"Petya" Class Light Frigate
No. 664
Photographed at Bosporus, Istanbul,
Turkey, may 1980.
(Photography by Karsten Petersen)
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