Hameenmaa class Frigate Finnish Navy Suomen Merivoimat

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Hämeenmaa (Soviet Riga / Project 50) class Frigate

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Ships:

Unit	STATUS
01 FNS Uusimaa	commissioned as Soviet Filin in 1954 / transferred to Finland in 1964 / decommissioned in 1989 > scrapped
02 FNS Hämeenmaa	commissioned as Soviet SKR-69 in 1957 / transferred to Finland in 1964 / decommissioned in 1985 > scrapped

Specifications:

Builder: Yantar, Kaliningrad, Soviet Union

Displacement: 1500 tons
Length: 91.5 meters (300 feet)
Beam: 10.1 m (33 ft)
Draft: 3.2 m (10 ft)
Speed: 28 knots (52 km/h)
Range: 2000 NMI (3700 km) at 15 knots (28 km/h)
Complement: 175

Propulsion:
2 x steam turbines / 2 x boilers (16000 kW /21000 hp)
2 shafts / 2 propellers

Armament:

3 x 100 mm/L56 guns
2 x 37 mm twin AA guns
2 x 25 mm twin AA guns
2 x Hedgehog ASW mortars
1 x 533 mm torpedo tube

Systems:
?

Aviation:
none

The Hämeenmaa class Frigates were acquired from the Soviet Union in the mid-1960s, to be used as gun training ships. They formed the "Escort Flotilla" (Finnish: Saattajalaivue) together with the Nuoli-class fast gunboats.

Hämeenmaa was in Finnish Navy service between 1964-1985. The sister ship Uusimaa was decommissioned in 1979 and cannibalized for spare parts for Hämeenmaa. Both ships had already served a few years in the Soviet Navy before sale to Finland.

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a Riga class Frigate in Soviet service

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