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SNIPE patrol boats (1946)


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Kestrel 1979

Ships


Names Builders Commissioned Losses Transfers Discarding

PL9 Snipe

PL10 Puffin

PL11 Wren

PL12 Mallard

PL13 Gull

PL14 Tern

PL15 Cormorant

PL16 Kestrel

Australia: PL9-16

1946: PL9-16

None

None

1985: PL12

1987: PL9-11, 13-16



Technical data


Displacement standard, t 
Displacement full, t28
Length, m

13.7

Breadth, m

4.60

Draught, m

2.10

No of shafts

1

Machinery1 Gardner diesel
Power, h. p.

144

Max speed, kts

9

Fuel, t

diesel oil

Endurance, nm(kts)1700(8)
Armament

small arms

Electronic equipmentnone
Complement5


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<i>Kestrel </i>1979
Kestrel 1979


Project history

Small boats.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.