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Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Venezuela receives navy patrol boat purchased to Spain


The Government of Spain handed in this Thursday Apr. 14 the navy patrol boat Alfa Bravo Guaiqueri PC 21 to Venezuela”s Bolivarian Navy, in compliance with an accord signed by the two countries in 2005.

The boat was officially handed in at the port Bahia de Cadiz, Spain, as part of the accord which stipulates the construction of eight military coastguard vessels, responsibility of the Spanish company Navantia.

During the official ceremony, Captain Teodoro Ramirez Ospino, commander of the Guaiqueri patrol boat, received the vessel”s streamer an a Venezuelan flag for the new boat.

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