The stamp of the Georgia Armed Forces issued in 2007 depict a Combattant II type fast missile craft.
Only one vessel of this type is in the Georgian Navy, she is the DIOSKURSIA (also given as DIOSCURIA in some sources), an ex Greek vessel and commissioned in the Georgian Navy in April 2006.
By a Google search, there were four ships of this type in The Greek Navy, all commissioned in 1972.
The design is of the Lürsen Werft, Bremen-Vegesack, after she received an order to build some of this type for the Israeli Navy, but the West German Government blocked the deal for fear to upsetting the relations with the Arabian states.
Lürsen was allowed to pass on the design, and the French yard of Constructions Mécanniques de Normandie (CMN), Cherbourg, France built twelve ships of this design for the Israeli Navy.
1972 Four ships of Combattant II a fast missile and torpedo boat were commissioned in the Greek Navy, ordered in 1969, and one the IPOPLIARCHOS BATAIS (P17) was transferred to the Georgian Navy in 2004.
Launched with pennant No P54, (when her pennant No. was altered to P17 could not find.)
Displacement 234 ton light, 255 ton full load. Dim. 47 x 7.1 x 2.5m.
Powered by four MTU 16V538 TB90 diesels, 12.000bhp, geared to four shafts, speed 36.5 knots.
Range 850 nm by 25 knots or 2.000 nm by 15 knots.
Armament 2 – 35mm AA guns, 4 – MM38 Exocet SSM., 2 – 533 torpedo tubes for SST4 torpedoes.
Crew 32.
05 January 1972 commissioned in the Hellenic Navy.
The class had a steel hull and aluminium superstructure, and are used for patrolling coastal waters, interception of enemy forces, and as boarding vessels.
When taken up by the Georgian Navy renamed, she was named after the Dioscuri brothers, Castor and Polydeuces the twin sons of Zeus and Leda and brothers of Helen of Troy and Clytemnestra of Argos who, according to the Greek mythology, had taken part in the Argonaut Expedition.
What has happened with the vessel after the Russian invasion in Georgia in 2008 is unclear, but most probably sunk by Russian forces.
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Source: The World Navies. Naval fast Strike Craft and Patrol Boats by Roy Mcleavy. Some web-sites.