A-963 Stern

Country:  Belgium

Class, [Type]: [YAG].

Builder: Karlskronavarvet, Karlskrona, Sweden.

Commission date: 13 October 1998.

Decommission date: 12 September 2014.

Displacement ( tons ): 375.

Dimensions ( metres ): 49,9 x 8,52 x 2,4

Main machinery: 2 x Hedemora V16A/15 diesels ( 4.480 hp ).

Speed ( knots ): 18,5.

Range ( miles ): 500 at 20 knots, 3.000 at 12 knots.

Complement: 12.

Radar: Navigation: 2 x Kelvin-Hughes 6000A.

Sonar: Removed.

Callsign: ORGR ()

Comment: Ex - Kbv 171. Former Swedish Coast Guard Class "A" cutter purchased 28/9/1998 for use as a general-purpose tender, training craft, and fisheries patrol craft; transferred 9-10-98 and commissioned in Belgian Navy 13-10-98. Was originally launched on 11-79, and entered service on Swedish Navy on 3rd September 1980. Will also be used in mine countermeasures system trials. The glass-reinforced plastic sandwich hull had been lengthened by 6 m in 1981. Has helicopter platform, bow-thruster, a firefighting monitor, and Roll-Nix rudder roll-control system. The Simrad Subsea sonar was removed prior to transfer.

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