"Vedete Graniceresti"

If I am not mistaken, that paintjob was introduced around the time of the Kosovo-conflict embargo on Serbia. NATO embargo enforcers were stationed in a few places along the Danube, including Galati, in order to prevent shipments to Serbia via de Danube. Maybe they had to be painted in a way that was more recognisable to the NATO enforcers so that they could differentiate between rogue and legitimate vessels? I have no evidence of that, just a supposition...
Radu

Hi Radu
I knew that Shanghai II is not the boat you are looking for . these boats waren't in service in 1980.
Try the links below ,I'm not sure but I think that there is a likeness
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...orpedo_boat.JPG
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Ko...o_boat_rear.JPG
or here :
http://henk.fox3000.com/Aer2.htm
http://en.akella.com/News.aspx?id=546
http://www.warboats.org/soviet.htm
You can find others .

I think thai is the boat you are looking for
http://www.politiadefrontiera.ro/img_inf_gen/13_mare.jpg
It seem that it is a romanian boat , not a soviet one.

Hi d1ragos,
I knew it was not the Komsomolets almost as soon as I wrote it. Everything is different. I know the Komsomolets reasonably well. BTW, there is a Komsomolets in the open air display of the Maritime Museum in Constanta. The only thing that may link these boats is that they may be in the same ballpark dimensionally.
I have a a couple more photos of the veGhe, but all of them are like this one, taken with a telephoto lense. The photo of the boat that I posted above was found in the background of another photo - I had to scan it and then enlarge it.
What I would like to find out is some info, drawings, class/NATO classification, anything.
Radu

Hi Radu
You can ask Politia de Frontiera about , they have a "Petitii , sesizari , reclamatii si informatii publice" section on theyr menu and as long as these boats are no longer in service maybe they can give you all the info you are looking for.
Anyway , if I'll have new info about that I I'll let you knew

What's that marking on the ship (wide red, then narrow yellow and blue)? Is like the Romanian Army Roundel, only for coast guard ships?

It is the Romanian tricolour.
The Romanian flag is blue, yellow and red (blue at the mast).
Radu

Of course it's the Romanian flag, I'm Romanian . The Romanian flag has a 2:3 proportion, with equal stripes. I was talking about this particular marking: WIDE red and NARROW yellow and blue stripes.

As Denes pointed out above, the Romanian Coast Guard are trying to imitate the colour scheme of the US Coast Guard - see the USCG banner here http://www.uscg.mil/
Other Romanian Coast Guard vessels are painted in the same manner.
Radu

The first of 8 new ships for the border police was launched at Galati this may.

Building the ship started in January 2009, at the Dutch owned Damen shipyard in Galati. Costs were 24.750.000 euros, provided by the EU.

Some technical charchteristics:

legth: 66 meters
width: 9,70 meters
crew: 19
transport capacity: 100 people including the crew
max speed: 21 knots
patrol speed: 12 knots
autonomy: 1800 miles at a cruise speed of 17 knots
two MTU engines, type 16V4000M73

More data in Romanian from the border police site:
http://www.politiadefrontiera.ro/stire.php?id_stire=3042

and some pictures:







This post has been edited by Vici on May 30, 2010 04:29 pm

Interesting boat!

The weirdest thing is why there is a Ju87 showing up instead of the photo I posted initially?

Here it goes again.
Radu



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here is some pictures with the river military flotilla ...i hope it's what you looking for

No, these two photos above show VD 141 river minesweepers, which belong to the Navy.
What radub posted just before you is different, just look closely at the photos.

Looks like it's armed with german 20mm WW2 vintage guns...

And here's another image of the VG ship:

i see...what kind of "border patrol' ship you are looking for.

Maybe this will help you:


- 1) - http://lh3.ggpht.com/_VCoc2kk39ik/ROMeUeXO...Uc/P1020092.JPG

- 2) http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OSG4g7dDHA0/SthP...e-frontiera.jpg

This post has been edited by claudiu_ne2000 on June 16, 2010 08:31 pm

Very interesting photos.
The first time I saw one of these boats was around late 70s-early 80s in Tatanir on the Chilia arm of the Delta where there was a borderguards station.
My father was a good friend of the harbour master's (Mosh Antosha) and we spent some holidays there where we stayed in the house of the mooring pontoon. These boats used to come in and moor at the pontoon. I remember that it was painted in camouflage colours and I went on board a number of times. The engines were amazingly loud and the engine room was tiny and hot. Very fast!
Basically, I would love to build a model of it and ideally a set of drawings would be most helpful. Are these a Romanian design or are they imported? Do they have a NATO name?
Radu