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shipyard, a subsidiary of Chilean Navy, has completed three 0c°re Project Tritao, 518-ton, multirole, p ?an Pntrol, and supply vessels since ruary 1993, when the Contramestre Tli W fshown here) was commissioned, en Tard has won its first foreign naval n ract: the Indian Ocean nation of ^auritiiis has ordered a Canadian- ■gned, 1,600-ton economic exclusion anT Pat.ro' S*1‘P- Armed with a 40 mm gun ana i^u'PPed with a helicopter hangar a si deck, the 246-foot ship will have er con*'guration and will be pow- t oy U.S.-made Caterpillar diesels.
-British Royal Naval Auxiliary Service ha I 3 vo,unteer organization that j a more than 2,000 personnel at 64 ports on i 6 Kingdom, was disestablished
Di i 'i>r^ 1994 and its 12 small vessels ^ up for sale. Shown here at Ports- rj"atl' awaiting possible buyers are, left to c|f *’ t-oyal Watcher, one of four “Loyal”- thaSRSUPpIy ,cn(lcrs formerly assigned to f e WNXS, and three of the organization’s crUf P‘200°-ciass patrol boats/training Th ^xp^°rer> Example, and Express.
\ e.l;s0P-strong civilian Royal Maritime uxillary Service, which operates tugs, v °°ring and salvage tenders, supply essels, and other smaller service craft in Upport of the Royal Navy, is also a can- ate for disestablishment, with its vital °rk to be contracted out. The Royal eet Auxiliary, a civil service organiza- °n that mans seagoing supply vessels u support of deployed units of the °>al Navy, was reduced from 2,450 per- jj'nnel in 1993 to 2,050 in 1994, as citish sea power continues to downsize.
ack Sea Fleet Foxtrot-class (Project 641) jltse* submarine B-9 lies forlornly moored 0 a pontoon barge at Sevastopol in Janary 1994. Of the 62 Foxtrots delivered to ("e S°viet Navy from 1957 to 1968, about '° dozen remain in commission. Another 'Vcre huilt for foreign customers: India U Libya (6), and Cuba (3), while Poland Purchased two ex-Soviet Baltic Fleet units, u its day, the Foxtrot—with a range of ,000 nautical miles at 8 knots on snorkel “Jud a load of 22 torpedoes—was considered a formidable opponent, but the few Units remaining in Russian service are Useful chiefly for training. Some stricken acific Fleet sisters have reportedly been sold to North Korea for scrapping, while other discarded Foxtrots from the orthern and Baltic Fleets may be broken
up at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard under a scheme advocated by Pennsylvania Congressman Curt Weldon.
Still another Foxtrot has been leased by a Finnish businessman for use as a tourist attraction.