Latvian lats Lūsis and Jānis Strupulis. All banknotes are 130 × 65 mm in size. They were printed by Giesecke & Devrient GmbH in Germany and were designed by Imants Žodžiks and Valdis Ošiņš. The lats was the fourth-highest-valued currency unit after the Kuwaiti dinar, Bahraini dinar, and the Omani rial at the end of its circulation. The 500 latu note was the world's third most valuable banknote after the $10,000 Singapore note and the 1,000 Swiss franc note. Latvian lats The lats (plural: "lati" (2–9) "latu" (10 and more)), ISO 4217 currency code: LVL or 428) was the currency of Latvia
Baltic (tug) Baltic (tug) The Baltic is a German emergency tow vessel (ETV) commissioned in 2010. The vessel which was built in Spain by Astilleros Armon is owned by Arbeitsgemeinschaft Küstenschutz of Germany, a consortium of tugboat companies. The Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development of Germany has chartered the vessel to protect the German coastline. The "Baltic" replaced the tugboat "Fairplay 26" as an ETV and operates from Warnemünde in the western Baltic Sea. She was commissioned on 24 September 2010. The Baltic features a bollard pull of 127 tons and a maximum speed of . In October 2010,