home

fighting ships of the world

ROYAL NAVY (UNITED KINGDOM)

COASTAL FORCES

GREY FOX patrol craft (1988)

Names

P284 Grey Fox, 1.2003- Scimitar

P285 Grey Wolf, 1.2003- Sabre

Builders

Halmatic, Hamble: P284, 285

Completed

1988: P284, 285

Losses

None

Transfers

None

Discarding

in service (2019): P284, 285

 

Displacement standard, t

19

Displacement full, t

24

Length, m

16.0

Breadth, m

4.40

Draught, m

1.20

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 MAN D2840LXE diesels

Power, h. p.

740

Max speed, kts

32

Fuel, t

diesel oil

Endurance, nm(kts)

450(17)

Armament

2 x 1 - 7.6/90

Electronic equipment

Racal Decca Bridgemaster 360

Complement

5 + 30 passengers

Project history: Halmatic M160 craft. GRP construction with Kevlar armour around the pilothouse.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: Operated in Northern Ireland from 1988 and transferred to Gibraltar in September 2002, recommissioned in January 2003.

Sabre 2008

© Ivan Gogin, 2016-19