The Sorum class, Soviet designation Project 745, is a series of seagoing tugs built for the Soviet Navy and KGB Border Troops, and later operated by the Russian Navy and FSB Border Service.[3]
Russian Navy Sorum-class seagoing tug MB-99 (Project 745) during the Navy Day celebrations at Vladivostok in 2008
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Name | Sorum class |
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Operators |
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In commission | 1972 |
Completed | abt. 42[1] |
General characteristics (Project 745) | |
Type | Seagoing tug |
Displacement | 1,452 t (1,429 long tons; 1,601 short tons) |
Length | 56.5 m (185 ft 4 in) |
Beam | 12.64 m (41 ft 6 in) |
Draft | 4.47 m (14 ft 8 in) |
Installed power |
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Propulsion |
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Speed | Max: 13.2 knots (24.4 km/h; 15.2 mph) |
Range | 6,200 nmi (11,500 km; 7,100 mi) at 13 kn (24 km/h; 15 mph) |
Endurance | 40 days |
Complement | 35 |
Sensors and processing systems |
These vessels perform the standard missions of a seagoing tugboat with other missions such as protecting and patrolling Russian maritime borders, enforcing navigational rules and law enforcement, search and rescue, and fisheries protection.
A Project 745P border patrol ship was involved in an incident involving Greenpeace vessel where the Russian ship fired warning shots, and later seized a Greenpeace vessel after they attempted to board an oil rig in the Arctic in 2013.[7]
Another Project 745P border patrol ship rammed a Ukrainian tug in the Kerch Strait on November 25, 2018.[8]