FLEETS #25: Algerian National Navy, Latvian Naval Forces and Estonian Navy today

Written by D-Mitch

This is the seventh article about various countries' navies today. In these articles, I briefly describe a country's naval fleet by reporting the ships in each type/category of warships and by providing a nice image where all the types of warships are illustrated and the units of its class are reported. I include the vessels that will enter in service this year and I have excluded those that are about to be decommissioned. I deliberately excluded many classes of auxiliary ships; those that they have "0" defence capacity and those that have secondary roles such as hydrographic survey ships, tugs, depollution vessels and training ships.

Algerian National Navy (Forces Navales Algériennes (القوات البحرية الجزائرية))  

The Algerian Navy in 2018 consists of the following warships:

• 1 landing platform dock ship (Kalaat Béni Abbès) 
• 6 submarines (Rais Hadj Mubarek, Akram Pacha, El Hadj Slimane, Messali el Hadj, Ouarsenis, Hoggar)
• 5 frigates (Erradi, El Moudamir, Adhafer, El Fatih, Ezzadjer)
• 3 corvettes (Mourad Rais, Rais Kellich, Rais Korfu)
• 1 minehunter (El Kasseh)
• 15 fast attack missile boats (Salah Reis, Rais Hamidou, Rais Ali, Djebel Chenoua, El Chihab, El Kirch, Rais Hassan Barbière, and some small others)
• 1 training/escort ship (Soummam)
• 36 patrol boats
• 3 large rescue and support ships (El Moundjid, El Moussif, El Moussanid)
• 23 helicopters 

and many other auxiliaries, small patrol boats and small landing craft.

The following graph is dedicated to the memory of Hammer Head (@KitadicaCool )

Algerian National Navy in 2018 (full fleet depicted). For a high resolution image click here.

 

Latvian Naval Forces (Latvijas Jūras Spēki)

The Latvian Naval Forces in 2018 consists of the following warships:

• 1 minelayer/command ship (Virsaitis) 
• 1 logistic support/command ship (Varonis)
• 5 minehunters (Imanta,Viesturs, Tālivaldis, Visvaldis, Rūsiņš)
• 5 patrol coastal boats (Skrunda, Cēsis, Viesīte, Jelgava, Rēzekne)
• 6 small coast guard patrol vessels

Latvian Naval Forces in 2018 (full fleet depicted). For a high resolution image click here.

Estonian Navy (Eesti Merevägi)  

The Estonian Navy in 2018 consists of the following warships:

• 3 minehunters (Admiral Cowan, Sakala, Ugandi) 
• 1 minelayer (Wambola)

 and few auxiliaries

Estonian Navy in 2018 (full fleet depicted). For a high resolution image click here.