Timblo-class patrol crafts are a series of patrol workboat built by

Timblo Drydocks Private Limited Timblo Drydocks Private Limited is a privately owned shipbuilding company based in Goa, India. It was established in the early 1970s and owns a shipyard having area of 10 hectares located on the left banks of the River Zuari in Goa, with a water fr ...

Goa Goa () is a state on the southwestern coast of India within the Konkan region, geographically separated from the Deccan highlands by the Western Ghats. It is located between the Indian states of Maharashtra to the north and Karnataka to the ...

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Each boat in this series is long and is made of

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. The boats are powered by twin motors of each and have top speed of . They are fitted with various navigation and communication equipment such as SART, EPIRB, GPS and VHF set etc.

Order cancellation

A contract was concluded on 15 October 2009 for construction of 30 workboats between the Ministry of Defence (MOD) and M/s Timblo Dry Docks Pvt Ltd, Goa for the

Indian Coast Guard The Indian Coast Guard (ICG) is a maritime law enforcement and search and rescue agency of India with jurisdiction over its territorial waters including its contiguous zone and exclusive economic zone. The Indian Coast Guard was formally es ...

at a cost of ₨41.54 crores, which was subsequently amended to ₨41.43 crores. As per the contract, the first workboat was to be delivered by 15 April 2011 and the subsequent workboats were to be delivered every three months each with the last workboat contractually due for delivery on 15 July 2018. The shipyard failed to deliver a single vessel and there has been no progress since June 2012. The shipyard finally submitted its inability to progress ahead with the project due to incorrect inputs from their original designer resulting non fitting of equipment as per provision of contract during the meeting held at MOD on 12 March 2013.

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, title=Feature 6: Small naval/paramilitary craft , page=30 , date=January 2012 Fast attack craft of the Indian Coast Guard Patrol boat classes

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Order cancellation

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