Oleksandr Okhrimenko, a Project 2262 search and rescue ship, was built by Keppel Fels shipyard for the USSR.

In 2012 the ship was renamed Оleksandr Okhrimenko being reassigned to the state (treasury) company Maritime Emergency and Rescue Service (МАРС).

Finally, in December 2018 Solomyanskyi court in Kyiv removed the attachment from the ship to dispose it to the Ukrainian Navy.

The ship appeared on the horizon at 15.30 and at 17:20 was moored at Pivdenna Naval Base, Praktychna harbor.

[1] On November 13 2019, solemn events on the occasion of the transfer of the search and rescue vessel to the Ukrainian Navy took place in Odesa.