Spanish patrol vessel Tornado (P-44)

Tornado (P-44) is the fourth ship of the Meteoro class, a new kind of offshore patrol vessels created for the Spanish Navy and called BAMs.

For other ships with the same name, see Spanish ship Tornado.
Tornado (P-44)
History
Spain
Name: Tornado
Ordered: 31 July 2006
Builder: NAVANTIA
Cost: €166.74m (US$224m)[1]
Laid down: 5 May 2010
Launched: 21 March 2011
Commissioned: 19 July 2012
Decommissioned: In active service
Homeport: Las Palmas Naval Base
Identification: pennant number: P-44
General characteristics
Class and type: Meteoro class BAM
Displacement: 2860 tons full load
Length: 93.9 metres (308 ft)
Beam: 14.2 metres (47 ft)
Draft: 4.2 metres (14 ft)
Propulsion:
  • 2 diesel engines
  • 4 groups diesel generators
  • 2 electric motors propellers
  • 1 Emergency generator
  • Located 2 cross bow thruster
Speed: 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph)
Range: 3,500 nautical miles (6,500 km; 4,000 mi)
Complement: 46 crew and 30 forces[2]
Armament:
  • 1 cannon 76 mm/62 gun
  • 2 x 25 mm automatic mountings
  • 2 × 12.7 mm machine guns
Aircraft carried: 1 × NH-90


References
  1. Ing, David (22 July 2014). "Two new Spanish BAM OPVs to be in service by 2019, says Navantia". IHS Jane's Navy International.
  2. Official Web of the Spanish Navy
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