Class overview | |
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Name | PO class |
Builders | BSO Split |
Operators | |
Built | 1982-1984 |
Completed | 3 |
Active | 1 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Auxiliary ship |
Displacement | 882 tons standard |
Length | 58.2 m (190 ft 11 in) |
Beam | 11 m (36 ft 1 in) |
Draught | 2.8 m (9 ft 2 in) |
Propulsion | 2 Burmeister & Wain diesel engines, 2,600 kilowatts (3,480 bhp), 2 Shafts, 3 auxiliary engines |
Speed | 16 kn (30 km/h; 18 mph) |
Range | 1,500 mi (2,400 km) at 14 kn (26 km/h; 16 mph) |
Capacity |
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Complement | 43 |
Armament |
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Armor | Splinter plating |
The PO-class consists of three small multi-role transport ships. They were built for the Yugoslav Navy by indigenous design made by Brodoprojekt Rijeka in the early 1980s at the BSO shipyard, Split, known as the Lubin class by NATO.[1] They had a primary function of replenishing warships of the Yugoslav Navy with weapons, and as such were designated PO, short for (Serbian: Pomoćni oružar) (Ammunition Auxiliary)[2] The first of class, Lubin (PO-91), remains in service, now in the Montenegrin Navy.[3]