- State affiliation · Lithuania
- Vigil category device · not official insignia
Identity provenance
State affiliation: Lithuania.
Vigil category device — drawn from this record’s own domain, echelon and role. Not an official insignia.
In brief
The naval service, its statute and structure approved by ministerial order V-152 of 17 February 2016 together with the statutes of its subordinate units, amended since. Those subordinate units are not named in the order’s title and none is authored here; the principal-structure law names them as a warship flotilla and a sea and coastal surveillance service.
- Scope
- Structure, role, lineage and links. No subordinate records published.
- Subordination
- Subordination confirmed
- Sources
- 2 on the record
- Record state
- Partial
- Broad area of activity
- Lithuania’s coast and waters from Klaipėda, the state’s only port and the point through which sea reinforcement would arrive.
- Notable history
- The service’s statute and structure, and the statutes of its subordinate units, were approved by ministerial order V-152 of 17 February 2016 and have been amended since; the principal-structure law fixes its shape as a warship flotilla and a sea and coastal surveillance service, and the Seimas’s 2025 amendment gave the port and coastal defence element the name of General Kazimieras Nestoras Sapiega as a fusilier battalion. It has belonged since 1998 to the three-nation Baltic Naval Squadron built around mine countermeasures.
- Strengths
- A service organised around the two things a ninety-kilometre coast needs — surveillance of the approaches and mine countermeasures in the port — with a statutory structure and a place in the Baltic mine-countermeasures cooperation that predates NATO membership. Klaipėda is the sea entry to the Suwałki ground, and this is the service that keeps it open.
- Limitations
- The order names its subordinate units only as a class, so the branch ends at the service; the flotilla named in law has no statute this project has read. Vessels, readiness and stations are not published in any instrument read and are not carried.
Sensitivity: Public · structural Confidence: High Sources: Republic of Lithuania legal-acts register (Teisės aktų registras)↗ · Official government statements Methodology Corrections
Assessed as of — 2026-09 Last reviewed — 2026-09-28
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