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By A. D. Baker III, Editor, Combat Fleets of the World
Awaiting a possible buyer, the 369- ton, 37-knot Sellin (592) was to be a guided-missile patrol boat for the East German Volksmarine, but after completion in October 1990 it was laid up with sister Binz (593) at Wolgast, fully equipped, except for antiship missile launchers. Numbers 594-596 of the class were transferred incomplete to Poland on 3 October 1990, while the class prototype, Sassnitz, served in the Bundesmarine until she was decommissioned on 12 July 1991; three others had been started prior to unification.
The 465-ton At Jawf is the first of a half-dozen British-built Sandown- class minehunters for Saudi Arabia. The Saudi craft differ from their Royal Navy sisters primarily in having a twin U.S. Emerlec 30-mm. gunmount forward instead of a single gun. Shaqra was launched on 15 May 1991, and a third, At Kharg, has been laid down. The Coalition victory in the Persian Gulf canceled out an order for six more.
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Delivered on 20 July 1991, HMS Unseen is the second of four Royal Navy Upholder-class diesel-powered submarines. Upholder herself was accepted last December but then almost immediately began a ten- month yard period to repair a defective torpedo-launching system. Ursula was launched on 28 February of this year; when the final unit, Unicorn, is commissioned in the spring of 1993, the quartet will be the only nonnuclear submarines left in the British service. Three Oberon-class diesel boats "paid off" during 1991, leaving only five in commission.
Proceedings / November 1991