On 25 July 2018, Sredne-Nevsky Shipyard (SNSZ OJSC, part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation) held a ceremonial keel-laying of yet another minesweeper of Project 12700 (Aleksandrit), says press center of the shipbuilding company. By the order of Admiral Vladimir Korolev, Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy, the ship will bear the name of Peotr Ilyichev, Hero of the Soviet Union.
The contract for construction of a series of Aleksandrit-type ships was signed in March 2016. The Peotr Ilyichev is the sixth vessel of Project 12700 laid down by Sredne-Nevsky Shipyard. The Alexandr Obukhov, lead ship of Project 12700 series, was delivered to the customer in December 2016. The Ivan Antonov, the second serial ship, was launched in April 2018. It is to be delivered in the end of the year. Three more minesweepers are under construction.
This mine countermeasures vessel of Project 12700 was designed by Almaz Central Marine Design Bureau. The ship of the new generation features the most advanced technology and naval architecture and marine engineering, the world's largest monolithic hull of fiber-glass plastic made by the vacuum infusion method. Monolithic hulls fabricated from glass-reinforced plastic feature higher strength and survivability compared to steel hulls. They also have lower mass and longer life cycle (over 30 years).
The Peotr Ilyichev is to be delivered to the customer in November 2020.
Key characteristics: displacement - 890 t, length – 62 m, breadth – 10 m, speed at full displacement – 16 knots, crew – 44. The ship features high maneuverability and offers comfortable accommodation of the crew.
AO Sredne-Nevsky Shipyard, a part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation, was created in 1912. The shipyard has built over 500 warships and vessels of 43 designs for the Russian Navy and foreign customers (13 countries worldwide). Currently, the shipyard builds missile boats, trawlers, passenger and work vessels for various purposes and is about to start the large-scale construction of mine warships of the new generation for the Russian Navy and foreign countries.
Today, the shipyard is the leader of composite shipbuilding in Russia and the only plant in the country to build warships and civil vessels of 4 types of materials: composite materials, shipbuilding steel, nonmagnetic steel, aluminum and fiberglass. The shipyard has mastered the technology of building hulls of composite materials through vacuum infusion method.