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HEMZEH patrol vessel (1936/2006)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
حمزه  [Hemze] (ex-شهسوار [Shahsavar]) 802   Boele's SW, Bolnes, Netherlands   1936 1936 // 2006 in service (2019)

 

Displacement standard, t

539

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

53.7

Breadth, m

7.65

Draught, m

3.20

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Stork diesels

Power, h. p.

1300

Max speed, kts

15

Fuel, t

diesel oil

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

2 x 2 Noor SSM (4 C-802), 1 x 1 - 20/90 GAM-B01, 1 x 1 - 12.7/90

Electronic equipment

radar

Complement

 

Project history: Old Shah's yacht on Caspian Sea, stricken in 1998 but reinstated, converted to largest Iranian combat ship in that theatre and commissioned in 2006 as patrol/command ship.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

Shahsavar 1971

Hemzeh 2012

© Ivan Gogin, 2019