Riga class frigate

Riga class frigate

The Riga class was the Nato reporting name for class of frigates built for the Soviet Navy in the 1950s. The Soviet designation for these ships was "Storozhevoi Korabl" (escort ship) "Project 50 Gornostay" ("Ermine stoat"). The Riga class were analogous to World war II era destroyer escorts. These ships were a smaller and simpler version of the Kola class frigate. According to Conway's this simpler group of ships were ordered by Stalin himself who was concerned about the cost of large ships. The class introduced high pressure steam turbines and new radars into Soviet service. A total of 68 ships were built by Nikolayev yards (20 ships), Komsomolsk na Amure (7 ships) and Kaliningrad (the lead yard 41 ships). Most ships were decommissioned by 1980, however some were sold to China. The programme was cut short by Khruschev in 1956 as the ships were becoming obsolete.

Operators

;BUL: Bulgarian Navy - 3 ships;PRC: Five ships were built in kits for the People's Liberation Army Navy to be licence assembled in China as the Jinan class (Type 053) frigate. The Chinese later built their own versions with a different gun arrangements as Jiangnan class (Type 065) frigate;GDR: East German Navy - 4 ships (Ernst Thälmann, Karl Marx, Karl Liebknecht, Friedrich Engels);FIN: Finnish Navy - 2 ships (decommissioned);IDN: Indonesian Navy - 8 ships;USSR:

References

*Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1947-1995 ISBN 0-85177-605-1
* [http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ship/row/rus/50.htm page from FAS]
* [http://www.mks-kss.de/ Marinekameradschaft KSS e.V. - Riga Class]
* [http://www.atrinaflot.narod.ru/2_mainclassships/06_skr_50/0_50.htm site in Russian]


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