La Combattante IIa-class fast attack craft
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The La Combattante II type missile boats are two classes of fast attack craft of the Hellenic Navy. The first group of four were ordered by Greece in September 1972 from France.[1] The vessels had no class name but are referred to by type. A second group of six were purchased in the 1990s from Germany, comprising six Type 148 Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". that were being decommissioned.[2] The class was renamed La Combattante IIa, as with the French-made ships. All the ships were under mid-life updates in 1980s. Two vessels in the class, P-74 and P-75, were fitted with RGM-84 Harpoon anti-ship missiles and a new ESM was fitted after transfer.
Ship list
La Combattante II
Built by Constructions Mécaniques de Normandie of Cherbourg to the standard La Combattante II design, though having a smaller gun armament (4x35mm Oerlikon cannon instead of a single 76mm gun) forward.[1]
| Pennant number |
Name | Builder | Launched | Re-named | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| P56 | Navsithoi | CMN | 1972 | renamed Anninos (P14) | stricken 2002 |
| P55 | Evniki | CMN | 1972 | renamed Arliotis (P15) | stricken 2002 |
| P54 | Kalypso | CMN | 1972 | renamed Batsis (P17) | stricken 2004; sold to the Georgian Navy and renamed Dioskuria. Severely damaged in the 2008 South Ossetia war and afterwards scuttled by the Russians.[3] |
| P53 | Kymothoi | CMN | 1972 | renamed Konidis (P16) | stricken 2003 |
La Combattante IIa
(ex- German Type 148 Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities".)
| Pennant number |
Name | Former name | Commissioned by Germany |
Commissioned by Greece |
Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| P 72 | Ypoploiarchos Votsis | ex-Iltis | 8 January 1973 | 28 April 1995 | Decommissioned in 2025 |
| P 73 | Antiploiarchos Pezopoulos | ex-Storch | 17 July 1974 | 1 February 1994 | In service (2018) |
| P 74 | Plotarchis Vlachavas | ex-Marder | 14 June 1973 | 16 February 1995 | Decommissioned in 2011[4] |
| P 75 | Plotarchis Maridakis | ex-Häher | 12 June 1974 | 28 April 1994 | In service (2018) |
| P 76 | Ypoploiarchos Tournas | ex-Leopard | 21 August 1973 | 28 September 2000 | Decommissioned in 2011 |
| P 77 | Plotarchis Sakipis | ex-Jaguar | 21 August 1973 | 28 September 2000 | Decommissioned in 2011 |
See also
Notes
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References
- Gardiner, Robert; Chumbley, Stephen Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1947–1995 (1995) Naval Institute Press|, Annapolis Template:ISBN
- Sharp, Richard Jane's Fighting Ships (1991) Jane's Information Group Template:ISBN
External links
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