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AL KARAMA patrol ship (1980/2018)

Aisling 2010

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
الكرامة [Al Karama] (ex-Aisling)    

Verolme, Cork, Ireland

31.1.1979 3.10.1979 21.5.1980 // 5.2018 in service (2019)

 

Displacement standard, t

 

Displacement full, t

1003

Length, m

58.5 pp 65.2 oa

Breadth, m

10.4

Draught, m

4.36

No of shafts

1

Machinery

2 SEMT-Pielstick 6PA6 L280 diesels

Power, h. p.

4800

Max speed, kts

18.5

Fuel, t

diesel oil 170

Endurance, nm(kts) 6750(12)

Armament

small arms

Electronic equipment

Kelvin-Hughes Mk IV, Kelvin-Hughes Mk VI radars, Simrad SU sonar

Complement

46

Project history: Former Irish patrol vessel of Emer class, stricken in 2016 and in 2018 sold to Libya for use as fishing protection vessel.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

© Ivan Gogin, 2019