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EL LAHIQ patrol ships (1987-1990)

El Lahiq 2000

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
اللاحق [El Lahiq] 308   Danyard, Fredeikshavn, Denmark   7/1987 11.11.1987 in service (2019)
التوفيق [El Tawfiq] 309   Danyard, Fredeikshavn, Denmark   10/1987 31.1.1988 in service (2019)
الهمس [El Hamiss] 316   Danyard, Fredeikshavn, Denmark   4/1990 9.8.1990 in service (2019)
القريب [El Karib] 317   Danyard, Fredeikshavn, Denmark   7/1990 23.9.1990 in service (2019)
  

Displacement standard, t

425

Displacement full, t

500

Length, m

50.8 pp 54.8 oa

Breadth, m

10.5

Draught, m

2.75

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Burmeister & Wain 12V23/30 DVO diesels

Power, h. p.

4960

Max speed, kts

22

Fuel, t

diesel oil 95

Endurance, nm(kts) 4500(16)

Armament

1 x 1 - 40/70 Breda-Bofors 564, 2 x 1 - 20/90 F2

Electronic equipment

2x Decca radars

Complement

15 + 20 passengers

Project history: Danish Osprey 55 design. Intended for fishery protection, delivered without armament and were armed later. El Karib carries oil skimmer, El Lahiq has US-made mapping sonars and can be used as survey vessel. All have a stern ramp and door for launching 6.5m RIB.

Modernizations: late 2010s, all: - 2 x 1 - 20/90; + 2 x 2 - 14.5/93

Naval service: No significant events.

El Lahiq 2010

© Ivan Gogin, 2019