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CALABAR patrol boats (1941/1959)


Ships


Names Builders Completed Losses Transfers Discarding

Calabar (ex-MSML2223, ex-ML6002, ex-ML223)

Sapele (ex-MSML2217, ex-ML217)

Alexander Robertson, Sandbank, UK: Calabar

Dickie, Bangor & Tarbert, UK: Sapele

1941 // 1959: Calabar, Sapele

None

None

1967: Sapele

1969: Calabar



Technical data


Displacement standard, t

75.5

Displacement full, t85.6
Length, m34.8
Breadth, m5.59
Draught, m1.45 deep load
No of shafts2
Machinery

2 Hall-Scott petrol engines

Power, h. p.1200
Max speed, kts

18

Fuel, t

petrol 10500 l

Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

1 x 1 - 47/40 Mk 1, 1 x 2 - 20/70 Mk 5, 1 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 3, 2 x 2 - 7.7/94, 2 DCT (6), 14 DC or 8 - 9 mines

Electronic equipment

type 286 or 291 or 970 radar, type 134 sonar

Complement16


Standard scale images


<i>Calabar </i>1959
Calabar 1959


Project history

Former British 'Fairmile B' type patrol boats.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.