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Kommuna is a submarine rescue ship [1] [2] in service with the Russian Navy's Black Sea Fleet and the world's oldest active duty naval vessel. [3]A catamaran, [4] she was laid down at the Putilov Factory (now Kirov Factory) in St. Petersburg in November 1912 as Volkhov.
The Russian navy was reported to have sent the salvage ship Kommuna with the AS-28 submersible onboard to the wreck, as part of an eight-ship convoy. Worldwide, Kommuna is the oldest active-duty navy ship still in service, at 110 years old and inherited from the Imperial Russian Navy.
She was renamed Parizhskaya Kommuna after the rebellion was crushed to commemorate the Paris Commune and to erase the ship's betrayal of the Communist Party. She was recommissioned in 1925, and refitted in 1928 in preparation for her transfer to the Black Sea the following year.
Previously named Dadali [238] bought as supply ship for Russian troops in Syria [235] RoRo ship 1 Alexander Tkachenko: 2015 Black Sea Fleet Previously named Robur [239] chartered as supply ship for Russian troops in Syria [240] Longvinik: 23120 Logistic vessel 2 Elbrus: 2018 Northern Fleet Vsevelod Bobrov: 2021 Black Sea Fleet [241] Project ...
The Panama Maritime Authority later reported that the ship had been sunk by a Russian missile. [175] Four crew members were initially reported as missing and were later found. [184] The ship was also reported to have been captured by the Russian Navy and used as a shield against Ukrainian shelling. [185]
This image made from a video provided by the U.S. Coast Guard District 14 Hawaii Pacific shows a Russian ship patrolling off the coast of Hawaii. (U.S. Coast Guard via AP) (ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Parizhskaya Kommuna was in Sevastopol and remained until 30 October 1941 when she was evacuated to Novorossiysk after the Germans had breached Soviet defensive lines near the Perekop Isthmus. The ship fired her first shots of the war on 28–29 November when she bombarded German and Romanian troops south of Sevastopol. [42]
A Russian cargo ship called Ursa Major sank in the Mediterranean Sea overnight after an explosion ripped through its engine room and two of its crew are still missing, the Russian Foreign Ministry ...