Projekt 206FM-class minehunter

The Project 206FM class (NATO reporting name: "Krogulec"-class), originally designated Project 206F, were mine-countermeasure vessels of the Polish Navy built during the mid-1960s.

Type 206FM silhouette
Class overview
Name:
  • Project 206F class minesweeper/
  • project 206FM class minehunter
Builders: Komuny Paryskiej shipyard, Gdynia
Operators:  Polish Navy
Built: 1961-1965
Completed: 12
Active: 2
Scrapped: 9
General characteristics [1]
Type: Minesweeper / minehunter
Displacement:
Length: 58.2 m (190 ft 11 in)[1]
Beam: 7.7 m (25 ft 3 in)[1]
Draught: 2.14 m (7 ft 0 in)[1]
Propulsion: 2 × Sulzer-Cegielski 1,700 hp (1,268 kW) diesel engines, 2 shafts[1]
Speed: 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph)[1]
Complement: 49[2]
Armament: 3 x '2M-3' (25mm dual-barrel naval cannons)

Class history

The twelve ships of this class were built at the Komuny Paryskiej Shipyard in Gdynia as coastal minesweepers Project 206F class, and served as the 9th Coastal Defence Flotilla at Hel. Most of the class were decommissioned by the early 1990s, though three were modernised around 2000,[3] and remain in service as minehunters (their designation was changed to Project 206FM for Modernized)

Ships

The 12 ships in the class were:[2]

NameLaunchedCommissionedDecommissioned
ORP Orlik (613)??1989
ORP Krogulec (614)???
ORP Jastrząb (615)??1990
ORP Kormoran (616)??1993
ORP Czapla (617)??1990
ORP Albatros (618)???
ORP Pelikan (619)??1993
ORP Tukan (620)???
ORP Flaming (621)5 May 196511 October 1966In service[4]
ORP Rybitwa (622)???
ORP Mewa (623)22 December 19669 May 196730 December 2019[5]
ORP Czajka (624)17 December 196617 June 1967In service[6]

References

  1. "Projektu 206F". Polish Navy (in Polish). 2012. Retrieved 12 October 2012.
  2. "Polish Navy ship classes". worldnavalships.com. 2012. Retrieved 12 October 2012.
  3. "Future of the Polish Navy". Combat Fleets Of The World. 2012. Retrieved 12 October 2012.
  4. "ORP FLAMING". marinetraffic.com. 2012. Retrieved 12 October 2012.
  5. https://www.altair.com.pl/news/view?news_id=29648
  6. "ORP CZAJKA". marinetraffic.com. 2012. Retrieved 12 October 2012.
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