Re: Navy REPUBLIC OF Tanzania
Posted by:
pothkan (IP Logged)
Date: August 25, 2008 05:32PM
TANZANIA
1) Patrol Boats
German KFK type (built during WW II)
30.9.1964 loaned by West Germany - all given back 1967
Rafiki, Papa - ex KW 4, 5
Uhuru, Salome - ex KW 9, 10 - 1967 sold in Kenya
(probably of ex-Kriegsmarine KFK 409, 531, 616 and ?)
Chinese "Yulin" - operated by Marine Police
four (Changa, Kasa, Ngisi, Nyangumi) transferred 11.1966, based at Lake Victoria
West German MB-13 type
two (Rafiki and Uhuru) bought 1967 via Portugal, both § 1991
East German "Schwalbe"
Araka - 1.1966 ex East German Prenzlau
Salaam - 1.1967 ex East German Ilmenau
both § 1990
Chinese type 062 (Shanghai II)
six (JW 9861-9866), transferred 1970/71, § 1992-94
two transferred 6.1992, in late 1990s renamed
JW 9867 > Mzizi [P 68]
JW 9868 > Mzia [P 69]
East German "Bremse"
four, delivered 1973
Soviet pr. 183 (P 6) - torpedo boats with removed tubes
three-four, 1969 ex-East German (Artur Becker, Hans Coppi, Fritz Heckert + unconfirmed Bernhard Bastlein)
all § in 1980s
Soviet pr. P368 (Poluchat I)
one-two, § bf.1986
Yugoslavian "16" type
one, § bf.1994
North Korean "Nampo"
four transferred 1979-81, § 1987
North Korean "Kimjin"
five (transferred two 9.1987 and three 9.1988)
§ three 1994/95 and two 1997/98
2) Torpedo Boats
Soviet pr. 123bis (P 4)
four transferred 1970-1973 (rather from East Germany than USSR), § in 1980s
Chinese type 025 "Huchuan" - without hydrofoils
four delivered 1975
JW 9841-9842 - cannibalized 1997/98
JW 9843-9844 - in 1990s transferred to Lake Tanganyika (probably tubes removed), in early 2000s renamed P 43 and P 44
3) Landing Craft
two Chinese "Yuchai" (§ 1987)
two Chinese "Yunnan"
Pono [L 08] and Kibua [L 09] - launched 4.1995
Maendelo is civilian vessel.