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SOMALIAN NAVY (SOMALIA)

COASTAL FORCES

P202 patrol boat (1977/1984)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comm Fate
  P202   Swiftships, Morgan City, USA     4.1977 // 1984 abandoned 12.1992

 

Displacement standard, t

 

Displacement full, t

118

Length, m

31.7

Breadth, m

7.10

Draught, m

2.16

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 MTU MB 16V538 TB90 diesels

Power, h. p.

7000

Max speed, kts

32

Fuel, t

diesel oil
Endurance, nm(kts) 1000(18)

Armament

2 x 2 - 30/75 Emerlec EX-30

Electronic equipment

Decca RM916 radar

Complement 21

 

Project history: US 'Swiftships' type. Six ordered in 1976, four delivered in April 1977 before the cessation of US arms to Ethiopia. Aluminium construction. Crew of P202 defected to Somalia in 1984 and escaped there onboard the boat.

 

Modernizations: None.

 

Naval service: P202 was abandoned by her crew during UN intervention to Somalia in December 1992.

P203 1978

 

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