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The Coastal Fleet is the Finnish Defence Forces fleet unit. The Coastal Fleet includes the whole selection of the Finnish Navy’s ships.The Coastal Fleet protects the territorial integrity of the Finnish sea and trains war time units and personnel for the Finnish Navy. Serving in the Coastal Fleet is always worth it. The Coastal Fleet is stationed in Kirkkonummi and Turku.

Coastal Fleet trains conscripts in many demanding tasks, most on the vessels. Service time varies from 165 days to 255 and 365 day.

15.5.2026 | The Finnish Navy’s spring main exercise Narrow Waters 26-1 will be held from 20 to 27 May 2026. Exercise activities will take place in the coastal areas of Southern Finland and in the Gulf of Finland.

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Coastal fleet has a base in two different places: in Turku and in Kirkkonummi.

Coastal Fleet consists of Headquarters and four squadrons: 4th Mine Countermeasures Squadron, 6th and 7th Surface Warfare Squadrons and 8th Service Support Squadron. Bases are situated in Turku and Kirkkonummi but the battleships operate around all Finnish territorial waters.

Brigade-level units The brigade-level units of the Finnish Navy are subordinate to the Commander of the Finnish Navy. The Finnish Navy has bases in Turku, Kirkkonummi, Raseborg and Helsinki. The Navy is an independent branch that employs approxima...

Contact Information Our national switch board number is +358 299 800. All numbers beginning with 0299 are mobile phone numbers. You can send text messages to all direct numbers. Finnish Navy Navy Command PO BOX 58, 20811 TURKU Rykmentintie 15, 208...

Conscript training in the Navy It is great that you are interested in or that you have been ordered to carry out your military service or your voluntary military service for women in the Navy. The Navy offers versatile, interesting and challenging...

Welcome to the Finnish Navy! The In Service with us section provides information for the new recruits entering military service and Navy reservists. The Navy is one of the three services of the Finnish Defence Forces. A total of approximately 3,50...

30.06.2026–30.06.2026 Mäkiluoto and Katajaluoto, Gulf of Finland Firings notice Finnish Defence Forces will be firing with naval artillery in Mäkiluoto and Katajaluoto firing areas Jun 30 2026 between 09:00 - 15:00 hours. The danger area has a wes...

30.06.2026–30.06.2026 Mäkiluoto and Katajaluoto, Gulf of Finland Firings notice Finnish Defence Forces will be firing with naval artillery in Mäkiluoto and Katajaluoto firing areas Jun 30 2026 between 09:00 - 15:00 hours. The danger area has a wes...

04.07.2026–04.07.2026 Mäkiluoto and Katajaluoto, Gulf of Finland Firings notice Finnish Defence Forces will be firing with naval artillery in Mäkiluoto and Katajaluoto firing areas Jun 4 2026 between 08:00 - 12:00 hours. The danger area has a west...

04.07.2026–04.07.2026 Mäkiluoto and Katajaluoto, Gulf of Finland Firings notice Finnish Defence Forces will be firing with naval artillery in Mäkiluoto and Katajaluoto firing areas Jun 4 2026 between 08:00 - 12:00 hours. The danger area has a west...

27.5.2026 | The flagship of Standing Nato Mine Countermeasures Group One (SNMCMG1), Polish ORP Kontradmiral X. Czernicki, and Estonian ENS Ugandi, will conduct a scheduled port visit in Hanko arriving on 27 May 2026.

22.4.2026 | Standing NATO Maritime Group 1, (SNMG1), will conduct a scheduled port visit in Turku arriving on 22 Apr 2026, Commanded by Commodore Maryla Ingham, Royal Navy, on the flagship German frigate FGS Sachsen and Portuguese frigate NRP Dom Francisco de Almeida. The vessels will moor at Turku harbor.

2.3.2026 | Offshore patrol craft Tursas will be handed over to the Defence Forces by the Border Guard as part of new Turva-class offshore patrol vessels being introduced into service.

6.2.2026 | The Coastal Fleet’s annual winter operations exercise LUMIUKKO26 will be conducted in the Gulf of Finland and the Archipelago Sea from 6 to 12 February 2026. Winter operations are key parts of the Coastal Fleet’s activities.

2.4.2026 | For several years, the Navy has been developing a comprehensive capability to produce virtual exercises to train soldiers with better skills. This time, the Navy is piloting a procedure exercise for the virtual training environment for trainees to practise situations involving damages on a vessel in a setting that simulates reality.

5.6.2024 | The Finnish Navy will participate in exercise BALTOPS24 organized in the Baltic Sea from 5 to 20 June with vessels, coastal troops and staff officers on different command echelons. Troops from 17 countries will be involved in the exercise the total strength being some 6600 soldiers. Of these, the number of Finnish soldiers will be 330 at most.