Spanish patrol vessel Tornado (P-44)

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
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

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.


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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