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BOLIVIAN NAVY (BOLIVIA)

COASTAL FORCES

SANTA CRUZ DE LA SIERRA patrol boat (1985)

Names

PR51 Santa Cruz de la Sierra, ~2000- LP501 Santa Cruz de la Sierra

Builders

Hope Progressive SB, Houma, USA: LP501

Commissioned

1985: LP501

Losses

none

Transfers

none

Discarding

in service (2020): LP501

  

Displacement standard, t

 

Displacement full, t

50

Length, m

20.4

Breadth, m

5.80

Draught, m

1.30

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 General Motors diesels

Power, h. p.

 

Max speed, kts

20

Fuel, t

diesel oil

Endurance, nm(kts)

800(16)

Armament

2 x 1 - 12.7/90
Electronic equipment Furuno radar

Complement

10

Project history: Aluminium-hulled unit used for patrol and logistics service on the Rio Paraguay.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

Santa Cruz de la Sierra 1996

© Ivan Gogin, 2020