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The Cuban Navy rebuilt one, large ex-Spanish Rio Damuji fishing boat. BP-390 is now armed with two C-201W missiles, one twin 57 mm gun mount, two twin 25 mm gun mounts and one 14.5 mm machine gun. This vessel is larger than the Koni class , and it is used as a helicopter carrier patrol vessel.
Two of the ships were transferred to the navy of Greece; both ships were in reserve from April 1977 before being refitted & transferred. The gas-turbine propulsion engines were removed prior to transfer, and the ships were reclassified as coastal patrol craft. Tolmi (ΤΟΛΜΗ) (ex-Green Bay) transferred 1989 [11], recommissioned on 18 June 1991.
The Rio Damuji-class frigates are the largest warships in the Cuban Navy built from former Spanish-built fishing trawlers. Built between 1975 and 1979, they are variously classed as frigates, corvettes, or offshore patrol vessels. The ships' armament consists of Styx missile launchers, 25 mm guns, and the turret of a ZSU-57-2.
Her prototype boat was of a wooden hull construction. From this boat the Royal Norwegian Navy built a line of 20 Tjeld-class patrol boats. Starting on 1 January 1963, the US Navy took delivery of the first Båtbyggeri boats, with designation Nasty-class patrol boat. A total of 14 Nasty-class patrol boats were built by Båtbyggeri between 1963 ...
Used for riverine patrol, they are active. Cape Verde Coast Guard - Three units transferred, all non-operational as of 2014. Democratic Republic of the Congo DRC Navy - Three units were transferred by the USSR in 1982 with three more ordered in 1984. None are operational. Cuba Cuban Navy - Between 1971 and 1989 40 units were transferred to Cuba ...
Missile boats of the Cuban Navy (2 P) S. Ships transferred from the United States Navy to the Cuban Navy (1 C) ... Category: Ships of the Cuban Navy.
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Patrol Boat 383, P.B. [ edit ] On July 16, 1998 the former Cuban Navy Koni II-class frigate designated 353 was scuttled in shallow water near the Cuban resort town of Varadero in the Parque Submarino Cayo Piedra del Norte as an attraction for divers.