Six fast patrol boats simultaneously commissioned by Peruvian Navy were built by Vosper Ltd, and are first examples of their standard 110-ft design modified to suit Peruvian naval requirements; as patrol boats they will normally carry two manually operated 20 mm antiaircraft guns, two rocket flare projectors, they are fitted with sonar and depth charges in racks aft, and can ship four side-launched torpedoes, or increased number of ground mines; length oa 109 ft 7 in., breadth molded 21 ft, depth molded 10 ft 5 1/4 in.; two 18-cyl Napier Deltic engines each develop 3100 bhp at 2100 rpm.


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    Title :

    Patrol boats for Peru


    Additional title:

    Shipbldg Shipg Rec


    Published in:

    Publication date :

    1965


    Size :

    2 pages


    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English


    Keywords :


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