Ukrainian corvette Vinnytsia
Vinnytsia in 2011
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History | |
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Soviet Border Troops | |
Name | Dnepr |
Builder | Zelenodolsk Shipyard, Zelenodolsk, Republic of Tatarstan |
Yard number | 775 |
Laid down | 23 December 1975 |
Launched | 17 June 1976 |
Commissioned | 12 September 1976 |
In service | 31 December 1976 (Coast Guard) |
Fate | Transferred to Ukraine June 1992 |
Ukraine | |
Name | Vinnytsia |
Namesake | Vinnytsia |
Acquired | 1996 |
Commissioned | 19 January 1996 |
Identification | U206 |
Fate | Capsized in the port of Ochakiv on 10 June 2022[1] |
Badge | |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Grisha II-class corvette |
Displacement | |
Length | 71.2 m (233 ft 7 in) |
Beam | 10.1 m (33 ft 2 in) |
Draught | 3.8 m (12 ft 6 in) |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 35 knots (65 km/h; 40 mph) |
Range | 2,500 nautical miles (4,600 km; 2,900 mi) at 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph) |
Endurance | 9 days |
Complement | 79 (9 chiefs) |
Sensors and processing systems |
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Electronic warfare & decoys |
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Armament |
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Vinnytsia (U206) was an
Class and role
Vinnytsia was a 1124P project corvette (NATO reporting name: Grisha II class, Soviet classification: Albatros class Russian: Альбатрос).[2] In Soviet service she was designated as a Border Guard Patrol Ship, modified versions of the naval Small Anti-Submarine Ship design.
The
Service
The corvette Dnepr was laid down on 23 December 1975 at the
On 24 December 1976, an act was signed adding the ship to the Border Guard Service of USSR. The Soviet Maritime Border Guard flag was raised on the ship on 31 December 1976.
Service in the Coast Guard
Dnepr saw service throughout the late 1970s and into the 1980s, guarding the
In 1977, Dnepr patrolled the Black Sea between
In June 1992, after the dissolution of the Soviet Union Dnepr and her sister ship Izmail joined the Coast Guard of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine.[6]
In late 1995, it was decided to transfer the Grisha-class vessels Dnepr and Izmail to the Naval Forces of Ukraine. The Ukrainian naval flag was raised on the ship on 19 January 1996. Dnepr was renamed Vinnytsia and reclassified as a corvette.
Following her commissioning into the Ukrainian Navy, Vinnytsia participated in many joint training exercises with other nations.[7] In July 1996 Vinnytsia participated in the naval multinational exercise Cooperative Partner—96 off Bulgaria. In August of the same year, the corvette was a participant in the strategic exercise Sea—96, following that up with the naval multinational exercise Classic—96 off Romania.
In April 1998, the ship was among the vessels that took part in a Ukrainian-Russian naval exercise. She spend the better part of 1999 in naval exercises, the highlight being the Ukrainian-Russian naval exercise Farvater Miru—99 (English: Fairway peace—99) in August. In 2000, again the ship participated in naval exercises, including the multinational Cooperative Partner—2000 in June. In 2002 Vinnytsia performed in a multitude of naval exercises including the naval multinational exercise Breeze—2002 and strategic exercise Farvater Forpost—2002. She repeated that a year later in 2003, participating in the naval multinational exercises Breeze—2003, Farvater Miru—2003, Cooperative Partner—2003, Black Sea Partner—2003 and the BLACKSEAFOR Activation. In 2007 the corvette took part in the strategic exercise Artery—2007, Morsky vusol—2007 (English: Nautical knot—2007). Her captain in 2009 was
On 22 March 2014, following the
In October 2017, the ship was placed in dry dock in order to evaluate her condition. Vice Admiral Ihor Voronchenko, the commander of Ukraine's Navy, commented that despite being over 40 years old the ship may be repaired and continue service as Ukraine's forces desperately need anti-submarine assets in order to counter Russia's growing submarine fleet in the Black Sea region.[9]
In February 2021, it was announced that the Ministry of Defence was going to turn the warship into a floating museum, but details of the plan were unknown at the time.
References
- ^ "Project 1124 Albatros Grisha class". GlobalSecurity.org. Retrieved 15 July 2015.
- ^ "Project 1124 Albatros Grisha class". Federation of American Scientists. Retrieved 15 July 2015.
- ^ "1124* Grisha I-V class large ASW corvettes". warfare.ru. Retrieved 15 July 2015.
- ^ Стремительный "Альбатрос". (in Russian). Рogranichnik.ru. Archived from the original on 2012-07-24. Retrieved 15 July 2015.
- ^ Малый противолодочный корабль "Днепр" (in Russian). Flot.sevastopol.info. Retrieved 15 July 2015.
- ^ Корвет "Тернопіль" — новий "альбатрос" українського флоту. Євген Силкін, Морська держава (in Ukrainian). Archived from the original on 2012-03-16.
- ^ Klishchuk, Lyudmila (16 May 2016). Корвет «Вінниця» спишуть у 2017 році [Corvette "Vinnytsia" to be written off in 2017]. Vlasno.info (in Ukrainian). Archived from the original on 2016-05-21. Retrieved 26 June 2017.
- ^ "Корвет "Винница" поставлен в док для оценки состояния и ремонта". Information Resistance.
- ^ "A floating museum on a warship in Odessa". The Odessa Journal. 5 February 2021.
- ^ "List of Ukrainian Navy ships would have been destroyed or captured by Russian armed forces". navyrecognition.com. 19 March 2022. Retrieved 13 June 2022.
External links
- (in Ukrainian) Photogallery of Vinnitsya