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Wednesday, June 27, 2012

New Coast Guard Class For Sweden

90ft multi-role coastguard vesselThe first of a new 90ft class of five vessels for the Swedish Coast Guard Service was recently delivered to the port of Falkenburg, west Sweden with a further four under construction at Baltic Workboats AS, Estonia.

The vessels are designed for main duties of maritime surveillance, border including fisheries control, protection of the environment, rescue and civil protection including firefighting, monitoring and diving operations.

The 52t vessels have an LOA of 90ft (26.5m), beam of 20ft (6.2m) and draft of 5ft (1.5m). Unsual for its size, there is a triple pod propulsion system comprising three Volvo Penta IPS 1050 steerable pod drives with D13-800 diesels each rated at 800hp at 2,000 rpm (Rating 4 - light commercial application).

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