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BRACUÍ patrol vessels (1985-1986/1998)


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Bocaina 1998

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Bracuí (ex-Jorge Leite, ex-Itchen) P60   Richards, Lowestoft, UK 26.3.1984 16.11.1984 12.10.1985 // 8.4.1998 in service (2019)
Benevente (ex-Melo Baptista, ex-Blackwater) P61   Richards, Great Yarmouth, UK 16.1.1984 29.8.1984 20.6.1985 // 10.7.1998 in service (2019)
Bocaina (ex-Andromeda, ex-Spey) P62   Richards, Lowestoft, UK 12.11.1984 22.5.1985 19.7.1986 // 10.7.1998 in service (2019)
Babitonga (ex-Arun) P63   Richards, Lowestoft, UK 4.2.1985 20.8.1985 29.8.1986 // 18.9.1998 in service (2019)


Technical data


Displacement standard, t770
Displacement full, t

890

Length, m

42.0 pp 47.6 oa

Breadth, m

10.5

Draught, m

3.10 hull 3.75 max

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Ruston 6RKCM diesels

Power, h. p.

3040

Max speed, kts

14

Fuel, t

diesel oil 88

Endurance, nm(kts)4500(10)
Armament

1 x 1 - 40/60 Mk 9, 2 x 1 - 12.7/90

Electronic equipment

2x Decca RM1226 radars

Complement

33



Standard scale images


<i>Bracuí </i>2000
Bracuí 2000


Graphics


<i>Bocaina </i>1998
Bocaina 1998


Project history

Former minesweepers purchased in 1996 for transfer on retirement from Royal Navy in 1998. Two, P60  and 61, were originally to be employed as navigational buoy tenders and training ships and the others two converted to serve as survey ships. Brazilian Navy sisters serve as hydrographic survey ships and as a navigational buoy tender. Have steel hulls built to commercial single-compartment damage standard. There have been upper-deck corrosion problems.  Sweep gear removed prior to transfer.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.