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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, 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

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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.