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COAST GUARD OF COSTA RICA (COSTA RICA)

COAST GUARD

PUNTARENA patrol launch (1986)

Names

SP421 Puntarena, early 1990s- SP421 Donna Margarita, 2001- 42-1 Primera Dama

Builders

Swiftships, Morgan City, USA: SP421

Commissioned

1986: SP421

Losses

None

Transfers

None

Discarding

in service (2019): 42-1

 

Displacement standard, t

11

Displacement full, t

16

Length, m

12.8

Breadth, m

4.26

Draught, m

0.90

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 General Motors 8V92TI diesels

Power, h. p.

700

Max speed, kts

33

Fuel, t

diesel oil
Endurance, nm(kts) 450(18)

Armament

1 x 1 - 12.7/90, 2 x 2 - 7.6/90, 1 x 1 - 60/11 mortar

Electronic equipment radar

Complement

4

Project history: US 42ft design.

Modernizations: late 1990s: unarmed

Naval service: Soon after commission Puntarena was converted to hospital launch.

© Ivan Gogin, 2019