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SPEEDY patrol hydrofoil (1980)


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Speedy 1980

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Speedy P296   Boeing Marine, Seattle, USA // Vosper Thornycroft, Portsmouth   9.7.1979 14.6.1980 sold 1986


100 - 1000 t displacement/ BRT tonnage vessels


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate Speedy P296   Boeing Marine, Seattle, USA // Vosper Thornycroft, Portsmouth   9.7.1979 14.6.1980 sold 1986

Technical data


Displacement standard, t 
Displacement full, t

117

Length, m

30.8 hullborne 27.4 foilborne

Breadth, m

9.10 foils 5.20 hull

Draught, m

1.80 hullborne 2.40 foilborne

No of shafts

2 waterjets (foilborne) / 2 (hullborne)

Machinery

2 Allison 501-KF gas turbines / 2 General Motors Detroit Diesel 8V-92T1 diesels

Power, h. p.

6600 / 1100

Max speed, kts

43 / 14

Fuel, t

diesel oil

Endurance, nm(kts)1500(14)
Armament

2 x 1 - 7.6/90

Electronic equipment

type 1006 radar

Complement

18



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<i>Speedy </i>1980
Speedy 1980


Project history

The Royal Navy's first operational hydrofoil was ordered in June 1978 following an evaluation a year earlier of the commercial jetfoil Flying Princess. Boeing had already completed a design-study for the Japanese Maritime Self-Defence Force to adapt the jetfoil for the fishery protection role, and so the RN was able to acquire a hydrofoil at minimum cost (£6.2m). Originally two 7.62mm machine-guns were to have been carried, but Speedy commissioned in June 1980 without armament. Her radar and CANE computer-aided navigation system were similar to the 'Island' and 'Castle' classes, with which vessels she was working.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

She was also to have been used as a high-speed target, but in 1982 it was announced that she was up for sale. She was leased to her builders for commercial service during 1984-1986 and then sold to a Hong Kong.