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NIGERIAN NAVY (NIGERIA)

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PROSPERITY armed training vessel (1978/2015)

Prosperity 2015

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate

Prosperity (ex-Emer)

A497

 

Verolme, Cork, Eire

28.2.1977

26.9.1977

16.1.1978 // 19.2.2015

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

1 x 1 - 40/60 Mk 7, 2 x 1 - 20/90 GAM-B01, 2 x 1 - 12.7/90, 2 x 1 - 7.6/90

Electronic equipment

type 1008, Kelvin-Hughes 6000A radars, Radamec 1500 e/o system, Simrad SU sonar

Complement

46

Project history: Former Irish patrol ship, transferred to Nigeria and commissioned as training vessel with patrol abilities.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

© Ivan Gogin, 2019