1013 TT-120 Vietnam patrol craft

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1013 TT-120 Vietnam patrol craft

Post by aukepalmhof » Thu Nov 26, 2020 7:06 pm

Vietnam issued in 2020 a set of stamps and a miniature sheet which shows us Coast Guard Ships on the occasion of the Vietnam Stamp Day.

The stamp set introduces different types of ship with specific functions to perform their duties of coast guard patroling, searching and rescue, offshore patrolling, and protecting Viet Nam’s seas and islands.

As a coastal nation, Viet Nam possesses a total sea area of over 1 million square kilometers with a long coastline of 3,260 km, over 3,000 large and small islands, and two offshore archipelagos of Hoang Sa (Paracel) and Truong Sa (Spratly). Viet Nam’s Communist Party, Government, and People always recognize the special strategic importance of seas and islands in the national defense, construction, and development.
Viet Nam Coast Guard is a specialized military force under the Government of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam, performing the function of management of security, order, and safety and ensuring the observance of the laws of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam and related international treaties to which Viet Nam is a member. Viet Nam Coast Guard Department under the High Command of the Navy was established on August 28, 1998, marking the birth of the Vietnam Coast Guard.
In 2008, the Coast Guard Department was transferred to the Ministry of Defense. In 2013, the Coast Guard Department was renamed to the High Command of Coast Guard, and Coast Guard Areas was renamed the High Command of Coast Guard Areas under a decision of the Ministry of Defense.

Vessels of Viet Nam Coast Guard are equipped for different specific functions. Most of them are self-produced ships with the functions of patrolling, protecting coasts and islands, territorial seas, anti-robbery, searching, and rescue ... The Coast Guard forces are grown up as today due to the development of ship fleet, from transformative torpedo ships K206, the TT120, 200, 400 ships, the coast patrolling ships through the cooperation with countries providing Hamilton ships, Han River ships, and modern ships DN 2000 made by Vietnam.

With an aim to advertising the images of the country and people of Viet Nam through postal stamps, promoting combined strengths in all battlefields to protect the national sovereignty over seas and islands, the Ministry of Information and Communications issues a stamp sets with the theme: "Viet Nam’s Seas and Islands" in the years: 2018, 2020 and 2022.

http://www.vnpost.vn/en-US/bai-viet/chi ... guard-ship

The Vietnam Coast Guard is also equipped with many small patrol boats with a displacement of 120 to 400 tons, with high speed, modern weapons, and equipment.
The first is the 14-ship high-speed patrol boat TT-120 with the function of patrolling to protect the sovereignty and order and security of Vietnam's territorial waters and to control and prevent ships that violate State regulations. Customs, fishing, resource exploitation, and environmental protection in Vietnamese waters. TT-120 includes vessels numbered 001, 1011, 1012, 1013, 1014, 3001, 3002, 3003,3004, 3005, 3006, 3007.

Of the CSB 1013 depict on the stamp, the information and details are very scarce, the following I got from the internet.

The TT-120 class was built by the Hong Ha Comp. in Hai Pong, Vietnam for the coastguard of Vietnam.
The design is after the Russian Project 206.

CSB 1013 TT-120 class 200 tons high-speed patrol boats. These are ships built by Hong Ha Shipbuilding Company under the General Department of Defense Industry of Vietnam. These ships are numbered CSB 001, 1011, 1012, 1013, 1014, 3001, 3002, 3003, 3004, 3005, 3006 and 3007 respectively

CSB 1013 when launched or commissioned and other details I could not find. Additional info is welcome.
Wikipedia gives that 14 units of this class have been built and in service by the Vietnam Coast Guard.

https://soha.vn/quan-su/toan-canh-doi-t ... 220161.htm

Vietnam 2020 4000 d, sg?, scott?
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TT-120 one of the class of patrol boats Vietnam coast guard.jpg
2020 csb 1013.jpg

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