RMIS ''Lomor'' (03) is a operated by the Republic of Marshall Islands Sea Patrol. ''Lomor'' is one of twenty-two small patrol vessels Australia designed and built for smaller fellow members of the Pacific Forum, after the

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extended a

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for all maritime nations.

Operational history

In 2006 the ''Lomor'' worked with the

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ship ''Esperanza'' on fishery patrol. In September 2012 ''Lomor'', working with the

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, and the

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, to help locate a mariner lost in Marshall Island waters. In February 2018 ''Lomor'' and performed open ocean exercises and a joint patrol of their waters. In July ''Lomor'' engaged in joint exercises with the United States Coast Guard cutter ''Oliver F. Berry'', a similar-sized vessel.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lomor Pacific Forum class patrol vessels Patrol vessels of the Marshall Islands 1991 ships