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LIBERIAN COAST GUARD / NAVY (LIBERIA)

COASTAL FORCES

CAVILLA patrol boats (1976)

Names

103 Cavilla

104 Mano

Builders

Swiftships, Morgan City, USA: 103, 104

Commissioned

1976: 103, 104

Losses

103 (early 1990s), 104 (early 1990s)

Transfers

none

Discarding none

 

Displacement standard, t

 

Displacement full, t

38

Length, m

19.8

Breadth, m

5.80

Draught, m

0.80

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 General Motors 12V71TI diesels

Power, h. p.

1920

Max speed, kts

24

Fuel, t

diesel oil

Endurance, nm(kts) 600(21.5)

Armament

2 x 1 - 12.7/90, 1 x (1 - 12.7/90 + 1 - 81/12 mortar)

Electronic equipment

radar
Complement 20

Project history: US 65ft Sewart Commercial Cruiser design. Aluminium hull.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: Both boats were transferred under the naval flag in 1987 (Coast Guard was renamed the Liberian Navy). They were lost during the civil war, fate of the boats is unknown.

Mano 1976

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