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LIBERIAN COAST GUARD / NAVY (LIBERIA)

COASTAL FORCES

ST. PAUL patrol launch (1976)

Names

101 St. Paul

Builders

Swiftships, Morgan City, USA: 101

Commissioned

1976: 101

Losses

101 (early 1990s)

Transfers

none

Discarding none

 

Displacement standard, t

11

Displacement full, t

12

Length, m

12.8

Breadth, m

3.70

Draught, m

0.60

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 General Motors 8V71 diesels

Power, h. p.

870

Max speed, kts

20

Fuel, t

diesel oil

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

2 x 1 - 12.7/90

Electronic equipment

presumably radar
Complement 4

Project history: US 42ft Sewart design. Aluminium hull.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: Launch was transferred under the naval flag in 1987 (Coast Guard was renamed the Liberian Navy). It was lost during the civil war, fate is unknown.

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