French shipbuilding firm Ocea has designed and sold a fast patrol boat it calls the Ocea FPB 72.
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it has delivered FPB 72 vessels to ]Suriname
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, Nigeria
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and the Philippines
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.
Design
The vessels are long, have a top speed of .[ They can be armed with machine guns, or an autocannon.
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Nigerian Navy
Seven Ocea FPB 72 vessels were delivered to the Nigerian Navy
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. , , and were delivered in 2013.[ and were delivered in 2017.][ and were delivered in 2018.][
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Suriname Coast Guard
In November 2012 the defence and internal affairs Ministry of Suriname bought three patrol vessels from the French company Ocea for the Coast Guard. This order was worth 16 million euros. These patrol vessels will be used for fishery protection and to counterattack piracy in Surinamese waters. The first Fast Patrol Boat (P201), a Ocea FPB 98 type, was delivered in June 2013. The first boat arrived in Paramaribo with a container vessel from the port of Saint-Nazaire, France. Delivery of the remaining two vessels (P101 & P102), FPB 72 types, occurred by the end of July, 2013.
Philippine Coast Guard
On September 9, 2014, the Philippine Coast Guard
The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG; ) is the third armed uniformed service of the country attached to the Philippines' Department of Transportation, tasked primarily with enforcing laws within Philippine waters, conducting maritime security ope ...
(PCG) through the Department of Transportation (DOTr) and the French Shipbuilder OCEA entered an agreement to supply the latter with four 24 m FPB-72 Patrol Boats and one OPV-270 Offshore Patrol Vessel provided by a loan granted by the French Government.
The FPB-72 Patrol Boats is designated as in the Philippine Coast Guard Service.
The first of the four FPB-72, BRP ''Boracay'' arrived at the Alava Pier in Subic, Philippines on August 8, 2018 while the second boat, BRP ''Panglao'' arrived on September 3. Both ''Boracay'' and ''Panglao'' were commissioned together during the PCG anniversary celebration on October 17, 2018.
References
Patrol boat classes
Ships built in France
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