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By A. D. Baker III, Editor, Combat Fleets of the World
On 8 November 1991, Uruguay took delivery of four 481-ton, steel-hulled Kondor-II-class East German minesweepers: the Riesa (renamed the Temerario, 31); the Eilenburg (renamed the Valiente, 32), the Bernau (renamed the Fortuna, 33), and the Eisleben (renamed the Audaz, 34)—the latter seen here in May 1991 wearing her Bundesmarine pendant number, M-2671. Also transferred were the 1,732-ton Piast- class salvage ship Otto von Guericke (renamed the Vanguardia) and the 140-gross-registered-ton large harbor tug Zingst (renamed Banco Ortiz). All had been disarmed.
A Soviet Golf-II-class diesel-powered ballistic missile submarine is under tow here in the Mediterranean to Aliaga, Turkey, for scrapping. This unit was one of six transferred to the Baltic in the mid-1970s. The last of the2,900-ton submerged displacement, 98.9-meter-long Golf-IIs was decommissioned on 1 October 1990, and one is to become a museum ship. The 23 Golfs originally carried the surface-launched SS-N-4 ballistic missile, later replaced in most of the elass by the submerged-launched SS- ,5. Several were converted to mis- S|le test and auxiliary roles, while components for a 24th were delivered China and became China'ssubma- r'ne ballistic missile trials ship.
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The 3,500-ton, 36-foot, Croitor-class support tender Constanta visited Genoa, Italy, 5-6 September 1991 for the 499th anniversary of Columbus’s voyage to America and later visited France before returning home. Unusual for ships configured primarily for a repair and stores-support role, the two Croitors are equipped with two five-tubed antisubmarine warfare rocket launchers on the bow, as well as antiaircraft guns and point-defense Grail-type missiles; they also have a hangar aft for an Alouette-IIl helicopter, built in Romania under license from Franee.
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