The ''Kiisla'' class was a Finnish class of two
patrol boats later converted to
anti-submarine warfare vessels. The ships were built in 1984 and 1988 at the Hollming shipyard in
Rauma, Finland for the
Finnish Coast Guard
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. They were transferred to the
Finnish Navy in 2004.
The two vessels of the class formed the Guard Squadron ( fi, Vartioviirikkö) of the 7th Missile Boat Flotilla and they were based at
Upinniemi.
After only a few years in service in the Finnish Navy, the ''Kiisla''-class patrol boats were laid up and offered for sale. In January 2013, the Finnish shipowner Joakim Håkans proposed that the unused vessels should be donated to
Djibouti, where they would be used for anti-
piracy patrols. On 10 July 2013, it was announced that as no sufficient buyer had been found, ''Kiisla'' and ''Kurki'' would be scrapped and salvaged parts used as spares for other vessels of the Finnish Navy. The ships were
broken up in 2015.
Kiislan & Kurjen purkutyö
Western Shipyard, 20 January 2016.
Vessels of the class
* ''Kiisla'' (50)
* ''Kurki'' (51)
References
{{Commonscat, Kiisla class patrol craft
Ships of the Finnish Navy