HMS Blazer (P279)
For other ships with the same name, see HMS Blazer.
HMS Blazer, 2007 | |
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Name: | HMS Blazer |
Operator: | Royal Navy |
Builder: | Vosper Thornycroft |
Commissioned: | 1988 |
Motto: | "Premier in the First" |
Status: | in active service |
General characteristics | |
Class and type: | Archer-class patrol vessel |
Displacement: | 54 tonnes[1] |
Length: | 20.8 m |
Beam: | 5.8 m |
Draught: | 1.8 m |
Propulsion: | 2 shafts, Rolls Royce M800T diesels, 1,590 bhp |
Speed: | |
Range: | 550 nmi (1,020 km) |
Complement: |
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Sensors and processing systems: | Decca 1216 navigation radar |
Armament: |
HMS Blazer is an Archer-class patrol vessel of the Royal Navy. She was built by Vosper Thornycroft. She is just over 20 metres long and 5.8 metres wide and powered by two Rolls-Royce turbo engines. The ship is based at HMS Nelson, the shore base in Portsmouth and was commissioned in 1988.
She has four crew plus a commanding officer, and sails with a training officer and a complement of students. She is attached to the Southampton University Royal Naval Unit (SURNU), under the command of Lt Joseph Currin RN. Wider tasking includes: officer cadet training with Britannia Royal Naval College; VVIP visits; security patrols.
In 1993 she was involved in a fishing incident with French trawlers at the port of Cherbourg.
Notes
References
- ↑ Royal Navy - Patrol Boats - Archer class, royalnavy.mod.uk, Retrieved 14 June 2014
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