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FALKLAND ISLANDS FISHERIES PATROL (FALKLAND ISLANDS)

FISHERIES PATROL

DORADA patrol ship (1994/1997)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Dorada     Stocznia imeni Komuny Paryskiej, Gdynia, Poland 1991   12.7.1994 // 12.12.1997 returned 2008

 

Displacement standard, t

 

Displacement full, t

2360 brt

Length, m

76.0

Breadth, m

14.6

Draught, m

5.25

No of shafts

1

Machinery

2 Sulzer-Cegileski diesels

Power, h. p.

3900

Max speed, kts

16

Fuel, t

diesel oil

Endurance, nm(kts)

14000(12)

Armament

1 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 7
Electronic equipment 2x Furuno 2120 radars

Complement

15

Project history: Former stern-haul fish processing trawler built to owner who defaulted. Operated briefly for a New Zealand owner but placed under arrest in 1996, converted to fisheries patrol ship at Lyttelton, New Zealand, and departed for the Falklands 13.12.1997. Two RIBs aft.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

Dorada 2002

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