P-679 FS Grebe Patrol Vessel French Navy Marine Nationale

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P 679 FS Grebe

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Type, class: Grebe class Patrol Vessel / unique unit
Builder: Société Française de Construction Navale (SFCN), Villeneuve-la-Garenne, France

STATUS:
Laid down: ?
Launched: November 16, 1989
Commissioned: April 6, 1991
Decommissioned: November 2010
Fate: transferred to Cameroon Navy / renamed P-107 Dipikar

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Grebe was the only Espadon 50 type patrol boat in service with the French Navy.

Initially assigned to the Atlantic maritime region, she was based in Toulon in November 1997 where he carried out sovereignty missions in the Mediterranean.

Mission profiles:
Fisheries monitoring
Controls on board foreign and national fishing vessels
Search and rescue
Pollution control
Coastal defense on the coast and in the Exclusive Economic Zone

Grebe is a kind of bird.

Displacement: 410 tons (full load)
Length: 52 meters (170 feet 7 inches)
Beam: 9.8 meters (32 ft 2 in)
Draft: 2.75 meters (9 ft)
Speed: 18 knots (33 km/h)
Range: 4500 NMI (8300 km) at 12 knots (22 km/h)
Complement: 19

Propulsion:
2 x SACM-Wartilä RVR UD 33 V12 M6 diesel engines (3530 kW / 4800 hp)
2 shafts / 2 propellers

Armament:
2 x 12.7 mm machine guns
1 x water-cannon

Aviation:
none

Systems:
navigation radar
Inmarsat

Stern apron for 1 x RHIB boat

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