Ukrainian command ship Donbas

U500 Donbas at Sevastopol Bay, July 2012
History
Soviet Union
Name: Krasnodon (formerly PM-9)
Commissioned: 11 November 1969
Decommissioned: Transferred to the Ukrainian Navy in 1990s
History
Ukraine
Name: Donbas (formerly Krasnodon)
Commissioned: 1990s
Badge:
General characteristics
Displacement: 5,520 tons
Length: 122 m (400 ft 3 in)
Beam: 17 m (55 ft 9 in)
Draft: 4.63 m (15 ft 2 in)
Speed: 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Complement: 145

Donbas (Ukrainian: Донбас) is a repair ship that was converted to a command ship of the Ukrainian Navy. Project 304 (NATO reporting name: Amur). It was built on Szczecin Shipyard in Poland in 1969 for the Soviet Navy and entitled PM-9. "PM" is a Russian abbreviation for a repair ship (Russian: Плавучая мастерская, Plavuchaya masterskaya), and literally means a floating repair shop.

Donbas supervises the joint parade of the Ukrainian Navy and the Black Sea Fleet on the Navy Day in 2012

The ships of this company were considered the most durable, they were actively applied in military campaigns since the early 1970s.

As a result of the distribution of the Black Sea Fleet, PM-9 changed its name to Krasnodon. In 2001 it was renamed the Donbas. During it service in the Navy Armed Forces of Ukraine the ship repeatedly has participated in international exercises on parades in honor of the Navy Armed Forces of Ukraine in fee hikesof connections of ships of Navy Armed Forces of Ukraine. In 2007 the ship was hit by a cyclone strikes near Sevastopol, however it suffered minor injuries and remained intact.

On December 4, 2009 it was turned 40 years of ship of management Donbas of Navy Armed Forces of Ukraine. The Ministry of Defence of Ukraine has allocated on December 6, 2010 around 4 million UAH for the ship reconstruction. On January 25, 2011 the ship of management of Donbas has successfully passed the first stage of sea trials.

On March 20, 2014 the ship was captured by the Russian Navy during the Crimean Crisis.[1] On April 18, 2014 it was transferred to Odessa.[2] On September 4, 2016, the ship was damaged by fire at Odessa.[3]

Search and rescue vessel ‘Donbass’ (A500) and the sea tug ‘Korets’ (A830) got underway from Odessa on September 20 and transited the Kerch Strait on September 23, escorted by a number of Russian Navy units.

Ukrainian Navy Gutza-M artillery boats Kremenchuk (P177) and Lubny (P178) got underway from the port of Berdyansk to meet the two vessels as they entered the Sea of Azov.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko congratulated the crews of the two ships on a successful transit on his Facebook page, adding that they would become part of a newly-created base in the Sea of Azov.[4]

“The rescue ship Donbas and the tugboat Korets have arrived in Mariupol. Two small armored artillery boats, the R177 Kremenchuk and the R178 Lubny [which were previously redeployed to the Azov Sea and set out to meet the other two ships on September 23] arrived together with them,” it said. [5]

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References

  1. ↑ "У Криму три кораблі України підняли Андріївський прапор Росії" (in Ukrainian). Ukrayinska Pravda. March 20, 2014. Retrieved 2 June 2016.
  2. ↑ "Auxiliary ship Donbass returns from trials". moryaukrainy.livejournal.com. 2015-08-10. Archived from the original on 2016-12-23. Retrieved 2016-02-22.
  3. ↑ "Ukrainian Navy auxiliary ship DONBASS fire, Odessa". Fleetmon. September 4, 2016. Retrieved December 20, 2017.
  4. ↑ https://navaltoday.com/2018/09/24/ukraine-establishing-sea-of-azov-base-as-first-navy-ships-enter-through-kerch-strait/
  5. ↑ https://www.kyivpost.com/ukraine-politics/two-ukrainian-ships-that-entered-azov-sea-arrive-in-mariupol.html
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