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COASTAL FORCES
type 55A coastal patrol craft (1956-1960)


Ships


Names Builders Completed Losses Transfers Discarding

76 boats, inc nos:

556-558

565-567

Wuzhou SY: 76 boats

1956 - 1960: 76 boats

none

North Korea, 1968: 8 boats

North Vietnam, 1970s: 12 boats

1970s-1990s: all

1990: 50 were in service

2000: none were in service



Technical data


Displacement standard, t

75

Displacement full, t85
Length, m25.7
Breadth, m6.00
Draught, m1.80
No of shafts4
Machinery

4 diesels

Power, h. p.

3000

Max speed, kts

28

Fuel, t

diesel oil

Endurance, nm(kts)750(15)
Armament

2 x 2 - 37/63 type 61 or 2 x 1 - 37/73 70K, 2 x 1 - 12.7/90, 8 DC

Electronic equipmentReya or Zarnitsa radar
Complement17


Standard scale images


556 1965
556 1965


Project history

Steel hull, gun-armed Chinese version of Soviet project 183 FAC(T).

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.

© Ivan Gogin, 2015