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The six ships consisted of the entirety of the Latvian Naval Forces during its first incarnation, as The Great Depression hindered further expansion. The Navy saw no action during its early existence. In August 1940, the Soviet Union invaded and occupied Latvia, and thus, seized all six Latvian warships. All were incorporated into the Baltic Fleet.
Category: Ships of the Latvian Naval Forces. 3 languages. ... Mine warfare vessels of the Latvian Naval Forces (2 C) Missile boats of the Latvian Naval Forces (1 P) P.
Pages in category "Naval ships of Latvia" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. K.
The Skrunda class was ordered in 2008 and built in cooperation by Abeking & Rasmussen Shipyard in Germany and Riga Shipyard in Latvia between 2009 and 2013. The class and the five vessels are named after towns and cities in Latvia from each of the five historical regions of Latvia, where important battles for Latvia's independence took place.
After the USSR occupied Latvia on June 17, 1940, and the country was annexed to the Soviet Union, which was not recognized by many Western nations, the Soviet authorities issued orders for Latvian merchant navy ships to return home. Some of the ships obeyed (e.g. Hercogs Jēkabs) and some of their crews were deported to Gulag labor camps.
The Latvian navy said on Sunday that three ships were subject to investigation. NATO said last week it would deploy frigates, patrol aircraft and naval drones in the Baltic Sea to help protect ...
Imanta (M-04) is the lead ship of the Tripartite class of minehunters for the Latvian Naval Forces.The vessel was formerly HNLMS Harlingen (M854), a Tripartite-class minehunter of the Royal Netherlands Navy built in 1984. [1]
The cable that broke on Sunday linked the Latvian town of Ventspils with Sweden's Gotland island, and was damaged in Sweden's exclusive economic zone, the Latvian navy said.