RFS Epron no 3 – 03.11.2011

Re-fitted in 1999. 3380 tons full load and about 295 feet long. Diesel powered. The Russian designation is Spasitel’noye Sudno, meaning rescue ship. EPRON is an acronym for Ekspeditskaya Podvodnik Rabot Ososbogo Nazhnacheniya, The Russian Navy’s submarine rescue service.

RFS Epron no 2 – 03.11.2011

Based with the Black Sea Fleet EPRON is a Prut-class Submarine rescue ship (ASR) first deployed in 1959 and assigned as a full submarine rescue vessel in 1969.