A Soviet Grisha V-class small ASW ship
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Name: | Lutsk |
Namesake: | Lutsk |
Builder: | JSC Leninska Kuznya, (Kiev) |
Yard number: | С-012 |
Laid down: | 11 January 1991 |
Launched: | 22 May 1993 |
Commissioned: | 14 October 1993 |
In service: | 30 December 1993 |
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Identification: | U205 |
Status: | Unclear at this time [ March 2014 ] |
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Class and type: | Grisha V class corvette |
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Length: | 71.2 m (233 ft 7 in) |
Beam: | 10.15 m (33 ft 4 in) |
Draught: | 3.53 m (11 ft 7 in) |
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Range: | 2,500 nautical miles (4,600 km; 2,900 mi) at 14 kn (26 km/h; 16 mph) |
Endurance: | 9 days |
Complement: | 89 (9 officers) |
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Lutsk (Луцьк) is an anti-submarine corvette of the Ukrainian Navy. Board number U205 (to July 1994 was number 400, from 1994 until January 2007 — U200). In March 2014 Lutsk was captured by Russian forces during the Crimean crisis.
Lutsk is the ship 1124ME project (NATO reporting name: Grisha V class, in the Soviet classification: Albatros class Russian: Альбатрос).
The Russian type designation is Small Anti-Submarine Ship. The Grisha-class anti-submarine ship was designed to search for and destroy enemy submarines found in coastal areas. They were equipped with a variety of ASW weapons and an SA-N-4 surface-to-air missile launcher. All were fitted with retractable fin stabilizers. Some of them (the Grisha II class) were built for the border guard.
The Grisha V-class ships were built between 1985 and 2002. This incorporated further modifications with the twin 57-millimetre (2.2 in) guns being replaced by a single 76-millimetre (3.0 in) gun. Thirty ships were built. About 28 ships remain in the Russian Navy. Two ships — Lutsk and Ternopil were built in Ukraine. Lutsk was launched on 22 May 1993 and alongside Ternopil, entered service on 16 February 2006 with the Ukrainian Navy.
On 20 March 2014, Lutsk was captured by Russian forces during the Crimean crisis. The ship was scheduled to be handed back to Ukraine in May 2014. But as of 6 August 2014 it was not; Russia suspended the return of Ukrainian Navy materials from Crimea to Ukraine proper because Ukraine did not renew its unilaterally declared ceasefire on 1 July 2014 in the War in Donbass.