RMIS ''Lomor'' (03) is a operated by the

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. ''Lomor'' is one of twenty-two small patrol vessels Australia designed and built for smaller fellow members of the Pacific Forum, after the

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extended control of a exclusive economic zone for all maritime nations.

Operational history

In 2006 the ''Lomor'' worked with the Greenpeace ship ''Esperanza'' on fishery patrol. In September 2012 ''Lomor'', working with the Australian Defence Force, and the

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, to help locate a mariner lost in Marshall Island waters. In February 2018 ''Lomor'' and performed a joint patrol of their waters. In July ''Lomor'' engaged in joint

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with the United States Coast Guard cutter ''Oliver F. Berry'', a similar-sized vessel.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lomor Pacific Forum class patrol vessels Naval ships of the Marshall Islands 1991 ships