Sorum-class tugboat

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Russian Navy Sorum-class seagoing tug MB-99 (Project 745) during the Navy Day celebrations at Vladivostok in 2008
Class overview
NameSorum class
Builders
Operators
In commission1972
Completedabt. 42 [1]
General characteristics (Project 745)
Type Seagoing tug
Displacement1,452  t (1,429 long tons; 1,601 short tons)
Length56.5  m (185 ft 4 in)
Beam12.64 m (41 ft 6 in)
Draft4.47 m (14 ft 8 in)
Installed power
  • 2 main diesel gensets (2 × 1,000 kW)
  • 2 auxiliary diesel gensets (2 × 100 kW)
Propulsion
IEP; two shafts:
2 × DC propulsion motors [2] (2 × 1,500 hp)
SpeedMax: 13.2 knots (24.4 km/h; 15.2 mph)
Range6,200  nmi (11,500 km; 7,100 mi) at 13  kn (24 km/h; 15 mph)
Endurance40 days
Complement35
Sensors and
processing systems

The Sorum class, Soviet designation Project 745, is a series of seagoing tugs built for the Soviet Navy and KGB Border Troops, and later operated by the Russian Navy and FSB Border Service. [3]

Contents

These vessels perform the standard missions of a seagoing tugboat with other missions such as protecting and patrolling Russian maritime borders, enforcing navigational rules and law enforcement, search and rescue, and fisheries protection.

Design

Project 745 seagoing tug
The oceangoing tugs are auxiliary vessels for the Soviet Navy, later the Russian Navy. [4] [1]
Project 745P patrol ship
The border patrol ships are modified versions of the original Project 745. They are armed with two 30 mm AK-230M or AK-306 [lower-alpha 3] 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 reconnaissance vessel is a version of the original Project 745, which is a testbed for SIGINT and 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 diesel gensets (2 × 1,500 kW), three auxiliary diesel gensets (2 × 200 kW + 1 × 100 kW), an asynchronous propulsion motor (1 × 2,720 hp) and a bow thruster. [6] [2] [1]
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.

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

  1. ↑ One unit that was scrapped in 2019. [1]
  2. ↑ 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]
  3. ↑ The last five of nineteen built. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Russianships.info.
  2. 1 2 3 Grigoryev 2023, p. 120.
  3. ↑ Polmar 1986.
  4. ↑ Polmar 1986, pp. 9, 82, 322.
  5. ↑ Polmar 1986, pp. 9, 385.
  6. ↑ Zelenodolsk Shipyard.
  7. ↑ "Russia 'seizes' Greenpeace ship after Arctic rig protest". BBC News. 23 September 2013. Retrieved 29 June 2017.
  8. ↑ "Navy tugboat Yani Kipi vs Russian coastguard". liveuamap. Retrieved 25 November 2018.

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