Marinhas da Estônia, Letônia e Lituânia

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Marinha da Lituânia

Lituânia

Naval Flotilla


The main functions of Naval Flotilla are as follows:
Control, protection and defence of territorial waters and exclusive economic zone of the Republic of Lithuania;
Assurance of safe navigation;
Control and protection of approach to Klaipeda harbor;
participation in search and rescue operations.


The structure of Naval Flotilla

Flotilla commander is in charge of naval flotilla. He is assisted by Commander's staff. Flotilla staff coordinates activities of all three squadrons: Patrol ships squadron, MCM ships squadron as well as Auxilary ships squadron.

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M53 Skalvis MCMV



About the Hunt Class Vessels:

The Hunt Class vessels specialise in active mine-hunting. They use high-definition sonar to scour the world’s seabeds for mines and lost explosives, which are then destroyed by the ship’s clearance diving teams or mine disposal system.

The Hunt-class MCMV is a 725 tons vessel specialized in active mine hunting built by Vosper Thornycroft and Yarrow Shipbuilders Limited for the Royal Navy from 1979. Of the 13 vessels built, 10 remain in service today. The Greek and Lithuanian navy each have two vessels in their fleet.

The mine countermeasure vessel is manned by a crew of 47 sailors. The weapons suite consists in a single 30mm DS30M Mark 2 gun, 2 miniguns and 3 general-purpose machine guns.

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Latvian Naval Forces (Latvijas Jūras Spēki)


The Latvian Naval Forces in 2018 consists of the following warships:

• 1 minelayer/command ship (Virsaitis)
  1 logistic support/command ship (Varonis)
  5 minehunters (Imanta,Viesturs, Tālivaldis, Visvaldis, Rūsiņš)
  5 patrol coastal boats (Skrunda, Cēsis, Viesīte, Jelgava, Rēzekne)
  6 small coast guard patrol vessels