KRI Teuku Umar (385)
KRI Teuku Umar in Málaga
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History | |
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East Germany | |
Name | Grevesmühlen |
Namesake | Grevesmühlen |
Builder | Peene-Werft, Wolgast |
Laid down | 7 December 1981 |
Launched | 3 September 1982 |
Commissioned | 21 September 1984 |
Decommissioned | 2 October 1990 |
Identification | Pennant number: 212 |
Fate | Integrated with unified German Navy, 3 October 1990 |
Germany | |
Name | Grevesmühlen |
Namesake | Grevesmühlen |
Commissioned | 3 October 1990 |
Decommissioned | 1991 |
Identification | Pennant number: P 6164 |
Fate | Laid up 1991, sold to Indonesia |
Indonesia | |
Name | Teuku Umar |
Namesake | Teuku Umar |
Commissioned | 27 October 1996 |
Homeport | Surabaya |
Identification | Pennant number: 385 |
Status | Active |
General characteristics | |
Type | Kapitan Patimura-class corvette |
Displacement |
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Length | 75.2 m (247 ft) |
Beam | 9.78 m (32.1 ft) |
Draft | 2.65 m (8.7 ft) |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 24.5 knots (45.4 km/h) |
Range | 2,100 nautical miles (4,000 km) at 14 knots (26 km/h) |
Complement | 62 crew |
Armament |
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KRI Teuku Umar (385) is a Kapitan Patimura-class corvette currently operated by the Indonesian Navy. Before her service in Indonesia, ship was part of the East German Volksmarine, as Grevesmühlen (212).
Specifications
The Parchim-class corvette was developed for the East German Navy in the late 1970s, and built by the Wolgast Peene-Werft. The ships were designed for coastal anti-submarine warfare. In case of an all-out NATO-Warsaw Pact war in Europe their prime targets would have been the small U-206 coastal submarines of the West German navy. The first ship, Wismar (now the Indonesian KRI Sutanto), was launched on 9 April 1981 in Rostock, and subsequently another 15 ships were built until 1986. To make production more economical, the Soviet Union agreed to purchase another 12 ships from Wolgaster Peenewerft built between 1986 and 1990, thereby effectively subsidising the East German shipbuilding industry.
The ships of the Soviet Navy were named Parchim II by NATO. Though useful as a coastal ASW platform, the Soviet production of the similar but far more powerful Grisha class made this purchase even more illogical for the Soviet Navy. After German re-unification the former East German ships were sold to the TNI-AL (Indonesian Navy) in 1993. The Indonesian Navy extensively refurbished their Parchims, to the point where the refurbishing exceeded the cost of purchase. They are still in service, both in the Indonesian Navy and in the Russian Baltic Fleet.
Indonesian Parchims have completed a major refit to fulfill Indonesian Navy needs. Four 400mm Russian-made torpedo launcher was out of service because there is no Russian made torpedo in Indonesian Navy inventory so this Russian made torpedo launcher replaced by two western made triple torpedo launcher but only for two ships.
Service history
Grevesmühlen was built by
Gallery
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KRI Teuku Umar in 2015
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INS Saryu and KRI Teuku Umar in 2015
Citations
- ^ a b "Parchim (class) / Project 1331M". Militaryfactory.com. Archived from the original on 2018-02-05. Retrieved 2018-02-05.
- ^ https://www.adturtle.biz/LP_TA/index.cfm?T=438532 [dead link]
- ^ "Small Anti-Submarine Ships Project 1331M". russianships.info. Retrieved 26 April 2019.
- ^ a b "Corvette Parchim (1331M)". theworldwars.net. Retrieved 20 April 2019.
- ^ Conway 1995, p.141-142
- ^ Julio, Emirald (28 June 2016). "Mengulas KRI Imam Bonjol, Pengawal Kedaulatan RI di Natuna". Okezone (in Indonesian). Retrieved 26 April 2019.
References
- Gardiner, Robert; Chumbley, Stephen; Budzbon, Przemysław (1995). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1947-1995. Conway Maritime. ISBN 978-0851776057.