Navy
- 1 Vigilant patrol ship - 1,650 tons full load - commissioned 1996
- 1 SDB MK 3 patrol boat - 210 tons full load - commissioned 1984
- 2 Zhuk patrol craft - 39 tons full load
- 1 P-2000 patrol craft - 40 tons full load
- 22 other boats - 2-6 tons full load
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Famous quotes containing the word navy:
“We all know the Navy is never wrong, but in this case it was a little weak on being right.”
—Wendell Mayes, U.S. screenwriter. Otto Preminger. CINCPAC II (Henry Fonda)
“People run away from the name subsidy. It is a subsidy. I am not afraid to call it so. It is paid for the purpose of giving a merchant marine to the whole country so that the trade of the whole country will be benefitted thereby, and the men running the ships will of course make a reasonable profit.... Unless we have a merchant marine, our navy if called upon for offensive or defensive work is going to be most defective.”
—William Howard Taft (1857–1930)
“I call to mind the navy great
That the Greeks brought to Troye town,
And how the boistous winds did beat
Their ships, and rent their sails adown;
Till Agamemnon’s daughter’s blood
Appeased the gods that them withstood.”
—Henry Howard, Earl Of Surrey (1517?–1547)