List of active Croatian Navy ships

Naval ensign of Croatia

This is a list of active Croatian Navy ships. As of 2013, the Croatian Navy operates over 30 vessels including five missile boats which, along with three MOL coastal defence batteries, represent its main offensive capability.

Due to constant reductions of the defence budget and the ongoing financial crisis, acquisition of new ships has proven to be problematic. The latest ships to enter service with the Croatian Navy were two used Helsinki-class missile boats, which were acquired as a offset agreement to the Croatian purchase of Patria AMV vehicles.^[1]

Domestic production programs were limited to continuing existing Yugoslav designs and building a single missile boat (Kralj Dmitar Zvonimir) and a small mine hunter (Korčula), both of which took several years to complete.

Plans to start production of domestic patrol vessels (much needed for guarding the 6000 km long coastline) have been reduced and postponed over time ^[2][3][4] with newest plans to start a prototype in 2015. The tender was in May 2014 and as projected, the first vessel will enter service in 2015. The second one will follow in 2016, the third and the fourth in 2017 and the last one in 2018. The units are projected to cost around 10 million euros each.^[5]

Missile boats

Class	Picture	Type	Boats	Displacement	Note
Missile boats (5 in Service)
Končar-class		Missile boat	Šibenik (RTOP-21)	237 tonnes	Has a different weapons configuration from other Končar-class boats.
Helsinki-class		Missile boat	Vukovar (RTOP-41) Dubrovnik (RTOP-42)	300 tonnes
Kralj-class		Missile boat	Kralj Petar Krešimir IV (RTOP-11) Kralj Dmitar Zvonimir (RTOP-12)	385 tonnes	RTOP-12 slightly longer than 11.

Patrol boats

Class	Picture	Type	Boats	Displacement	Note
Patrol boats (4 in Service)
Mirna-class		Patrol boat	Novigrad (OB-01) Šolta (OB-02) Cavtat (OB-03) Hrvatska Kostajnica (OB-04)	143 tonnes

Training vessel

Class	Picture	Type	Boats	Displacement	Note
Training vessel (1 in Service)
Moma-class		Training ship	Andrija Mohorovičić (BŠ-72)	1260 tonnes

Rescue vessel

Class	Picture	Type	Boats	Displacement	Note
Rescue vessel (1 in Service)
Spasilac-class		Rescue ship	Faust Vrančić (BS-73)	1590 tonnes

Mine hunter

Class	Picture	Type	Boats	Displacement	Note
Mine hunter (1 in Service)
Korčula-class		Mine hunter	Korčula (LM-51)	180 tonnes

Landing craft and mine layers

Class	Picture	Type	Boats	Displacement	Note
Assault-landing craft and minelayers (6 in service)
Silba-class		Landing ship / minelayer	Cetina (DBM-81) Krka (DBM-82)	540 tonnes
Type-11	-	Landing - assault ship	DJB-104 DJB-107	-
Type-22		Landing - assault ship	DJB-106	-
-	-	Auxiliary - landing ship	PDS-713	-

Auxiliary - cargo vessel

Class	Picture	Type	Boats	Displacement	Note
Mine hunter (1 in Service)
-		Auxiliary - transport ship	PT-71 Meduza	310 tonnes

Yachts

Class	Picture	Type	Boats	Displacement	Note
Yachts (2 in service)
-		Yacht	Učka	-
-	-	Yacht	Čista Velika	-

Launch

Class	Picture	Type	Boats	Displacement	Note
Launches (3 in service)
-		Diving support launch	MRB-83	-
-		Diving support launch	MRB-51	-
-		Transport - ceremonial launch	Krasnica	-

Harbour tugboats

Class	Picture	Type	Boats	Displacement	Note
Harbour tugboats (2 in service)
-		Harbour tugboat	LR-71 LR-73	-

Sailboats

Class	Picture	Type	Boats	Displacement	Note
Sailboats (2 in service)
-	-	Motor sailboat	Zrinka	-
Salona 37		Motor sailboat	Katarina Zrinska	-
Salona 45		Motor sailboat	Kraljica Jelena	-

See also

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Naval ships of Croatia.

• List of ships of the Yugoslav Navy

References