Kashtan-class salvage vessel
The Project 141, (NATO reporting name Kashtan class) is a class of salvage vessel/submersible support built at Rostock's Neptun Werft in East Germany for the Soviet Navy.
SS-750 with its submersible in the Strait of Baltiysk | |
| Class overview | |
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| Name | Kashtan class |
| Builders | Neptun Werft, Rostock, East Germany |
| Operators |
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| Completed | 8 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Salvage vessel/ Submersible support |
| Displacement |
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| Length | 97.83 m (321 ft 0 in) |
| Beam | 18.20 m (59 ft 9 in) |
| Draught | 5.70 m (18 ft 8 in) |
| Propulsion | 2 × 1,500 hp (1,100 kW) diesel-electric motors, 2 fixed pitch propellers, 1 bow thruster , 5 × 775 kW diesel generators |
| Speed | 13.5 knots (25.0 km/h; 15.5 mph) |
| Range | 2,000 nautical miles (3,700 km; 2,300 mi) at 11 kn (20 km/h; 13 mph) |
| Complement | 47 |
In total, eight ships of this type were commissioned from 1988 to 1990. The ships became part of the Russian Navy after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The stern has a crane capable of lifting 100 tons with which a Priz-class deep-submergence rescue vehicle (DSRV) can be launched and recovered.
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