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Corvette “Soobrazitelniy”

Launched

Russia’s Severnaya Verf shipyard, a part of United Industrial Corporation (OPK), launched the first serial corvette

Soobrazitelniy. The project of this corvette was designed by Almaz, central design bureau (St.Petersburg). The corvettes are intended for functioning in the nearest sea area and fighting with sur- faces ships and submarines and also for normal military operations. The first ship of this series of ships was Stereguschiy, built in October 2008 and intended for

Baltiysky fleet. “This ship is technically equipped and capable to search, find and destroy submarines and carry out shock functions,” said Viktor Chirkov, com- mander-in-chief and vice-admiral of

Baltiysky fleet. Chirkov said that Soo- brazitelniy was the first serial ship, com- pleted in time, determined by the customer. The director of OPK Ship- building Andrey Fomichev emphasized that the launching of the first corvette was evidence of stable financial support from

RF Ministry of Defense. Today, Sever- naya Verf shipyard continues work on two corvettes “Boykiy” and “Stoykiy”.

Noordhoek Pathfinder

Sets Out

Noordhoek Survey received the DPII

ROV Survey SV Noordhoek Pathfinder, which has completed its verification trials and its first assignment.

The vessel met all of Noordhoek Sur- vey’s Quality Assurance and Quality

Control criteria. The DPII ROV Survey

SV NOORDHOEK PATHFINDER is now back in The Netherlands mobilizing immediately for its second assignment.

The Noordhoek Pathfinder is mobilized with a Grade 2 Dynamic Positioning sys- tem (DPII), diesel electric drive, a large moon pool, a 25 ton offshore crane.

It is also equipped with Work & In- spection Class ROV systems, Side Scan

Sonar Tow-Fish, McCartney Focus 2

ROTV systems and an exceptional sur- vey suite.

Hallin Expands Fleet

Subsea contractor Hallin Marine ex- panded its fleet with the purchase of the dynamically positioned (DP2) vessel the

Penrith. Hallin knows the 67m Penrith well, having operated the vessel since its launch in 2008 under a time charter from owners Seacor Marine.

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Soobrazitelniy Main Particulars

Displacement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2,000 tons

Length . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100 m

Width . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13 m

Max speed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27 knots

Range at a service speed . . . . . . . . . . . . .4,000miles

Complement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100