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P201 large patrol craft (1977)


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P203 1978

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comm Fate
  P201, late 1980s- P151   Swiftships, Morgan City, USA     4.1977 interned by Djibouti 1993, to Eritrea 11.1996, in service (2019)
  P202   Swiftships, Morgan City, USA     4.1977 defected to Somalia 1984
  P203, late 1980s- P152   Swiftships, Morgan City, USA     4.1977 interned by Djibouti 1993, to Eritrea 11.1996, stricken 2012-15
  P204, late 1980s- P153   Swiftships, Morgan City, USA     4.1977 interned by Djibouti 1993, to Eritrea 11.1996, stricken 1998


Technical data


Displacement standard, t 
Displacement full, t

118
Length, m

31.7
Breadth, m

7.10
Draught, m

2.16
No of shafts2
Machinery

2 MTU MB 16V538 TB90 diesels
Power, h. p.

7000
Max speed, kts

32
Fuel, tdiesel oil
Endurance, nm(kts)1000(18)
Armament

2 x 2 - 30/75 Emerlec EX-30
Electronic equipment

Decca RM916 radar
Complement21


Graphics


<i>P203 </i>1978
P203 1978
<i>P153 </i>1998  
P153 1998  


Project history

US 'Swiftships' type. Six ordered in 1976, four delivered in April 1977 before the cessation of US arms to Ethiopia. Aluminium construction.

Modernizations

early 1980s, P203, P204: - 2 x 2 - 30/75; + 2 x 2 -23/87 ZSU-23-2, 2 x 1 - 12.7/79