Sredne-Nevskiy Shipyard (SNSY, member of United Shipbuilding Corporation) will launch new generation minesweeper on June 27, 2014, IAA PortNews was informed by the shipyard. The lead ship of project 12700 with a fiber-glass hull is being built for RF Navy.
The ship will join the Northern Fleet of RF Navy in the IV quarter of 2015.
Ship’s major characteristics: displacement - 890 t, length - 61 m, breadth - 10 m, full displacement speed – 16.5 knots, crew - 44 persons.
The lead ship will be named after Aleksandr Obukhov.
Sredne-Nevskiy Shipyard (Saint-Petersburg) was founded in 1912. It has already built over 500 ships and vessels to 43 different projects for RF Navy and foreign customers. Currently, the shipyard builds missile boats, minesweepers, passenger and work vessels of different purposes and is getting ready for a large-scale construction of the new generation mine countermeasures ships for RF Navy and foreign customers.
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