Sorum-class tugboat
Russian Navy Sorum-class seagoing tug MB-99 (Project 745) during the Navy Day celebrations at Vladivostok in 2008
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Class overview | |
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Name | Sorum class |
Builders |
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Operators |
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In commission | 1972 |
Completed | abt. 42[1] |
General characteristics (Project 745) | |
Type | Seagoing tug |
Displacement | 1,452 t (1,429 long tons; 1,601 short tons) |
Length | 56.5 m (185 ft 4 in) |
Beam | 12.64 m (41 ft 6 in) |
Draft | 4.47 m (14 ft 8 in) |
Installed power |
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Propulsion | IEP; two shafts:
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Speed | Max: 13.2 knots (24.4 km/h; 15.2 mph) |
Range | 6,200 nmi (11,500 km; 7,100 mi) at 13 kn (24 km/h; 15 mph) |
Endurance | 40 days |
Complement | 35 |
Sensors and processing systems |
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The Sorum class, Soviet designation Project 745, is a series of
These vessels perform the standard missions of a seagoing tugboat with other missions such as protecting and patrolling
fisheries protection
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Design
- Project 745 seagoing tug
- The
- Project 745P patrol ship
- The AK-306[c] gun mounts giving them the ability to fire on surface, air and ground targets, and are equipped with the Kolonka-1 fire-control system to control these weapons.[5][1]
- Project 07452 experimental vessel
- The hydroacoustic equipment.[1]
- Project 745MB seagoing tug
- The oceangoing tug is a modernized version of the original Project 745. It is equipped with two main
- Project 745MBS rescue tug
- The rescue tug is a SAR version of the modernized Project 745MB, which is equipped with a switched reluctance propulsion motor instead of an asynchronous one.[2][1]
Externally, the Projects 745MB and 745MBS tugs can be distinguished from the original Project 745 tugs by twin funnels instead of one.
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Russian Navy Project 745 seagoing tug MB-307 in theNorth Atlantic Oceanin 1993
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Soviet Navy Project 07452 experimental vessel OS-572 (de facto reconnaissance vessel)
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Russian Coast Guard Project 745P border patrol ship Zabaykalye in thewestern Pacificin 1992
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Russian Coast Guard Project 745P border patrol ship Bug and Type Yamaha border patrol boat Steregushchy during the Russian-Japanese exercise in Aniva Bay in 2009
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Russian Navy Project 745MB seagoing tug MB-12 at Cape Zhelaniya in 2020
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Russian Navy Project 745MBS rescue tug Viktor Konetsky andCHIRUexercise in 2019
History
A Project 745P border patrol ship was involved in an incident involving Greenpeace vessel where the Russian ship fired warning shots, and later seized a Greenpeace vessel after they attempted to board an oil rig in the Arctic in 2013.[7]
Another Project 745P border patrol ship rammed a Ukrainian tug in the Kerch Strait on November 25, 2018.[8]
See also
Notes
- ^ One unit that was scrapped in 2019.[1]
- ^ One unit that was captured by the Russian Armed Forces in the Port of Berdiansk during the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 28, 2022.[1]
- ^ The last five of nineteen built.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Russianships.info.
- ^ a b c Grigoryev 2023, p. 120.
- ^ Polmar 1986.
- ^ Polmar 1986, pp. 9, 82, 322.
- ^ Polmar 1986, pp. 9, 385.
- ^ Zelenodolsk Shipyard.
- ^ "Russia 'seizes' Greenpeace ship after Arctic rig protest". BBC News. 23 September 2013. Retrieved 29 June 2017.
- ^ "Navy tugboat Yani Kipi vs Russian coastguard". liveuamap. Retrieved 25 November 2018.
Further reading
- ISBN 0-87021-240-0.
- Grigoryev, Andrey V. (June 2023), "История и современное состояние судовых систем электродвижения" (PDF), WWW.KORABEL.RU (in Russian), no. 2, Saint Petersburg, pp. 116–122, retrieved 10 March 2024.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Sorum class tugboat.
- "Seagoing tug - Project 745". Russianships.info. Archived from the original on 17 November 2023. Retrieved 10 March 2024.
- "Морской буксир проекта 745МБ" [Project 745MB seagoing tug]. JSC "Zelenodolsk Plant named after A.M. Gorky" (in Russian). Archived from the original on 18 July 2020. Retrieved 10 March 2024.