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GREY FOX patrol craft (1988)


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Sabre 2008

Ships


Names Builders Completed Losses Transfers Discarding

P284 Grey Fox, 1.2003- Scimitar

P285 Grey Wolf, 1.2003- Sabre

Halmatic, Hamble: P284, 285

1988: P284, 285

None

None

in service (2019): P284, 285



Technical data


Displacement standard, t19
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



Graphics


<i>Sabre </i>2008
Sabre 2008


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.