Fleets #17: Spanish Navy, Smooth Navy As Well As Irish Naval ServiceToday

Written past times D-Mitch

This is the 5th article well-nigh diverse countries' navies today. In these articles, I briefly pull a country's naval fleet past times reporting the ships inward each type/category of warships as well as past times providing a prissy picture where all the types of warships are illustrated as well as the units of its course of study are reported. I include the vessels that volition teach into inward service this twelvemonth as well as I convey excluded those that are well-nigh to last decommissioned. I deliberately excluded many classes of auxiliary ships; those that they convey "0" defence forcefulness capacity as well as those that convey secondary roles such equally hydrographic survey ships, tugs, depollution vessels as well as preparation ships.

Spanish Navy (Armada Española)

The Castilian Navy inward 2017 consists of the next warships:

• 1 landing helicopter dock/aircraft carrier (Juan Carlos I)
• 2 landing platform docks ships (Galicia, Castilla)
• 5 destroyers (Álvaro de Bazán, Almirante Juan de Borbón, Blas de Lezo, Méndez Núñez, Cristóbal Colón)
• 3 assail submarines (Galerna, Mistral, Tramontana)
• 6 frigates (Santa María, Victoria, Numancia, Reina Sofía, Navarra, Canarias)
• 8 offshore patrol vessels (Meteoro, Rayo, Relámpago, Tornado, Aydaz, Infanta Elena,
  Infanta Cristina, Cazadora)
• 7 patrol vessels (Serviola, Centinela, Vigía, Atalaya, Alborán, Arnomendi, Tarifa)
• 8 coastal patrol vessels (Tagomago, Medas, Tabarca, Toralla, Formentor, Cabo Fradera, and ii others)
• 6 mine counter-measure vessels (Segura, Sella, Tambre, Turia, Duero, Tajo)
• 2 replenishment/logistic back upward ships (Patiño, Cantabria)
• 1 submarine rescue vessel (Neptuno)
• 1 signals word transportation (Alerta)
• 3 carry ships (Contramaestre Casado, Martín Posadillo, El Camino Español)
• about thirteen fighters as well as well-nigh thirty helicopters

 and several other auxiliaries such equally preserve vessels, landing craft, carry as well as preparation ships.

Spanish Navy inward 2017 (full fleet depicted). For a high resolution picture click here.

Polish Navy (Marynarka Wojenna)

The Polish Navy inward 2017 consists of the next warships:

• 2 frigates (Generał Kazimierz Pułaski, Generał Tadeusz Kościuszko)
• 5 assail submarines (Orzeł, Sokół, Sęp, Bielik, Kondor)
• 2 corvettes of which the get-go i volition teach into inward service initially equally an offshore patrol vessel (Ślązak, Kaszub)
• 3 fast assail misisle arts and crafts (Orkan, Piorun, Grom)
• 5 landing ships/minelayers (Lublin, Gniezno, Kraków, Poznań, Toruń)
• 1 oiler (Baltyk) 
• 1 logistic back upward transportation (Kontradmiral Xawery Czernicki)
• 1 training/escort transportation (Wodnik)
• 20 mine counter-measure vessels (Kormoran, Flaming, Mewa, Czajka, Gardno, Bukowo, Dąbie, Jamno, Mielno, Wicko, Resko , Sarbsko, Necko, Nakło, Drużno, Hańcza, Mamry, Wigry, Śniardwy, Wdzydze)
• 2 signals word ships (Nawigator, Hydrogaf )
• about 8 aircraft as well as 21 helicopters

 and several other auxiliaries such equally preserve vessels, survey as well as preparation ships.

Polish Navy inward 2017 (full fleet depicted). For a high resolution picture click here.

Irish Naval Service (an tSeirbhís Chabhlaigh)

The Irish Gaelic Naval Service inward 2018 consists of the next warships:

• 7 offshore patrol vessels (Samuel Beckett, James Joyce, William Butler Yeats, George Bernard Shaw, Eithne, Róisín, Niamh)
• 2 coastal patrol vessels (Orla, Ciara)

 andfew preparation vessels

Irish Naval Service inward 2018 (full fleet depicted). For a high resolution picture click here.