Viana do Castelo-class patrol vessel

ENVC Shipyard Viana do Castelo

From 2011

1600 ts ( max. 1750)

83.1 m

12.95 m

3.69 m

35 (plus space for 32 more )

2x diesel engine ( 3,900 kW) 2x electric motor (200 kW) 2x waves

20 kn

4,859 sm at 15 kn

1x Oto Melara Marlin WS 30 mm naval gun 2x machine gun

The Viana do Castelo - class is a class of first eight patrol boats of the Portuguese Navy. The first boat was commissioned in 2011.

History

The ships of the Viana -do- Castelo class are intended as a replacement of the remaining, also used as patrol boats corvettes João Coutinho class and the Baptista de Andrade class. Procurement is under the Navio de Patrulha Oceânica ( NPO ) 2000 program.

When commissioning the ship type as the main armament on a transitional basis a 40 mm L60 gun had.

Units

The ships are located in Lisbon, they were named after towns.

Sines is equipped as a buoy tender, Setúbal is used to monitor polluters.

• Military Ship Class (Portugal )