KRI ''Teluk Cirebon'' (543) is a Frosch II-class amphibious logistic ship operated the

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. The ship was former ''Nordperd'' (E 35 / E 171) of the

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Characteristics

KRI ''Teluk Cirebon'' is a Project 109 (

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: Frosch II) amphibious logistic support ship. ''Teluk Cirebon'' has a length of , a beam of , with a draught of and her displacement is at full load. The ship is powered by two diesel engines, with total power output of distributed in two shaft. She has a speed of and complement of 46 personnel. The ship has of cargo capacity and also equipped with a 5-tons crane in amidships. As ''Nordperd'', she was initially armed with two twin 57 mm guns, two twin 25 mm autocannons and equipped with

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fire control radar. As ''Teluk Cirebon'', the ship are rearmed with two twin V-11 37 mm L/63 guns and two twin 2М-3 25 mm autocannons.

Service history

''Nordperd'' was built by VEB Peenewerft,

Wolgast Wolgast (; csb, Wòłogòszcz) is a town in the district of Vorpommern-Greifswald, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. It is situated on the bank of the river (or strait) Peenestrom, vis-a-vis the island of Usedom on the Baltic coast that can be ...

. The ship was laid down on 26 January 1978, launched on 30 August 1978 and was commissioned to Volksmarine on 3 October 1979. Following the

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, ''Nordperd'' was deleted on 1 October 1990 and was formally decommissioned from Volksmarine on 2 October. The unified

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didn't take over the ship and she was laid up at

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Naval Base. While being laid up, she received routine maintenance such as bilges inspection, heating in important areas, and routine propeller shaft inspection. Indonesian Navy acquired the ship on 25 August 1993 as part of warship procurement program headed by the then State Minister for Research and Technology,

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, as the Coordinator of the Procurement Team. The procurement program was based on the Presidential Instruction No. 3/1992 issued by

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on 3 September 1992 which aimed to bolster the Navy capabilities. Prior to sailing for Indonesia, she was refitted and demilitarized in

Rostock Rostock (), officially the Hanseatic and University City of Rostock (german: link=no, Hanse- und Universitätsstadt Rostock), is the largest city in the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and lies in the Mecklenburgian part of the state, c ...

. She was commissioned as KRI ''Teluk Cirebon'' (543) on 25 April 1995.

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