Mornar-class patrol boat
The Mornar class consisted of two large patrol boats built for the Yugoslav Navy by the Tito's Shipyard in Kraljevica during the late 1950s and early 1960s. The boats were based on the Udarnik, a French-built Le Fougueux-class submarine chaser acquired in 1956. Both boats had an uneventful career and were deleted in 1992.
Description and construction
The Mornar class consisted of just two boats: Mornar which was laid down in 1957, launched in 1958 and commissioned on 10 September 1959, followed by Borac which was laid down in 1964 and launched and commissioned in 1965. The class was based on the Udarnik, a French-built submarine chaser of the Le Fougueux-class, which was acquired by Yugoslavia in 1956.The boats measured in length with a beam and a draught of. Standard displacement measured while fully loaded they displaced. Propulsion consisted of four SEMT Pielstick PA17V diesel engines powering two shafts for a total of power output of, enabling a speed of and range of at or at.
Their original gun armament consisted of two 3"/50 caliber guns, two single-barrelled guns and two single-barrelled guns. Anti-submarine weapons consisted of two Mark 6 depth charge throwers and two Mark 9 DC racks. Both boats were modernized during 1970/73 at the "Sava Kovačević" Naval Repair Yard in Tivat; their 76 mm guns were removed and four five-barrelled Soviet-built RBU-1200 were installed along with a Tamir-11 sonar.