Lublin-class minelayer-landing ship

Class overview
Builders: Poland Northern Shipyard, Gdańsk
Operators:  Polish Navy
Preceded by: Północny class
In service: 1989-present
In commission: 1989-1991
Planned: 12
Completed: 5
Cancelled: 7
Active: 5
General characteristics
Type: minelayer-landing ship
Displacement: 1745 tones
Length: 95.8 m (314 ft 4 in)
Beam: 10.8 m (35 ft 5 in)
Draft: 2.38 m (7 ft 10 in)
Propulsion: 3x Cegielski-Sulzer 6ATL25D 1320 kW each
Speed: 16.5 knots (30 km/h/19 mph)
Range: 850 Nm (1672 km)
Complement: 37+135
Armament:
  • 4 × ZU-23-2MR units composed of two 23 mm guns and two Strela-2M surface-to-air missile system
  • 9 × ŁWD 100/5000 MCLC launching tubes

The Lublin class or Projekt 767 are minelayer-landing ships designed and built in Poland for the Polish Navy, in service since 1989. Only five out of the twelve planned ships were built, by the Northern Shipyard in Gdańsk, due to the fall of Communism. They can carry up to 9 T-72 tanks or 17 transport vehicles such as the Star 266 and 135 equipped troops. They were designed to carry up to 134 naval mines. The ships are named after the chief cities of the Piast dynasty.

On 12 October 2007 (the ship's 18th birthday), ORP Lublin became an honorary citizen of Lublin.

Tradition


ORP Gryf (1936) was a Polish mine--laying vessel and, likely, the only heavy mine--laying vessel built.

List of ships

pennant
number
Name Commissioned
821ORP Lublin 12 October 1989
822ORP Gniezno 23 February 1990
823ORP Kraków 27 June 1989
824ORP Poznań 8 March 1991
825ORP Toruń 24 May 1991

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