The HMBS ''Arthur Dion Hanna'' (P 421) is the first of four
Damen Stan 4207 patrol vessels commissioned by the
Royal Bahamas Defence Force
The Royal Bahamas Defence Force (RBDF) is the military of The Bahamas. Since The Bahamas does not have an army or an air force, its navy composes the entirety of its armed forces. Under The Defence Act, the Royal Bahamas Defence Force has been m ...
.
She was built in the
Netherlands
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, and delivered to the
Bahamas
The Bahamas (), officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an island country within the Lucayan Archipelago of the West Indies in the North Atlantic. It takes up 97% of the Lucayan Archipelago's land area and is home to 88% of the ar ...
in May 2014.
Design
The ''Arthur Dion Hanna'', and her sister ships are long and wide.
Her maximum speed is . Her waterjet-propelled high-speed pursuit boat can be deployed or retrieved from her
stern launching ramp
Some modern patrol vessels are equipped with a stern launching ramp, for deploying smaller rescue or pursuit boats without requiring the parent ship to first come to a halt.
Typically the smaller craft are powered by water-jets, and can dri ...
, without requiring her to come to a stop. She displaces 241 tonnes.
Operational history
References
Royal Bahamas Defence Force
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