Spanish patrol vessel Meteoro (P-41)
Meteoro (P-41)
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Spain | |
Name | Meteoro |
Ordered | 31 July 2006 |
Builder | NAVANTIA |
Cost | €166.74m (US$224m)[1] |
Laid down | 4 October 2007 |
Launched | 16 October 2009 |
Commissioned | 28 July 2011 |
Homeport | Las Palmas Naval Base |
Identification | pennant number: P-41 |
Status | In active service |
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 |
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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 |
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Aircraft carried | 1 × NH-90 |
Meteoro (P-41) is the lead ship of the
Operational history
Construction began on October 4, 2007 with the cutting of the first sheet[3] and the keel was placed on the stand on March 13, 2009 in the shipyard of San Fernando.
She was launched on Friday, October 16, 2009, sponsored by
On Friday, January 28, 2011, she successfully completed her sea trials in the Bay of Cadiz waters, prior to its delivery to the Navy,[5] completing her last tests in July 2011. While carrying out minor repairs at the San Fernando shipyard , a soldier was found dead inside of the ship with a shot in the head.[6] She was handed to the navy at the base of Rota in the presence of Defense Minister Carme Chacón on July 28, 2011.
Under the command of Captain David Fernández-Portal Díaz del Rio, on August 22, she arrived in the military arsenal of
She finished her cruise of resistance by the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea on 19 December 2011, when she arrived at her base in the Arsenal of Las Palmas, after having touched, in addition to the ports already mentioned,
On June 7, she returned to her base in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria after completing a period of operational qualifications and training, now being considered as fully operational.
On July 17, 2013, she sailed from her base in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria to join
On March 20, 2014, while participating in a routine exercise of cargo hoisting some 23 miles southwest of
In April 2015 she participated in the cleaning of oil spills in the Canary Islands, caused by the sinking of the Russian fishing vessel Oleg Naydenov. During the night of 16 to 17 of May, 2015 she participated in the arrest of a former fishing vessel, which carried 1800 kg of cocaine on board.
In August 2015 she joined the twenty-first rotation of the Atalanta anti-piracy operation in Indian waters. At the end of November, she set out on a return trip to Spain, calling at the ports of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Cape Town (South Africa) and Luanda (Angola).
In January 2022, amid the
References
- ^ Ing, David (22 July 2014). "Two new Spanish BAM OPVs to be in service by 2019, says Navantia". IHS Jane's Navy International. Archived from the original on 27 July 2014. Retrieved 12 April 2017.
- ^ "Official Web of the Spanish Navy". Archived from the original on 2012-08-13. Retrieved 2017-04-12.
- ^ Navantia empieza mañana el corte de chapa de los Buques de Acción Marítima Archived 2017-04-13 at the Wayback Machine (spanish)
- ^ Botadura del primer Buque de Acción Marítima de la Armada Española Archived 2017-04-12 at the Wayback Machine (spanish)
- ^ El BAM ?Meteoro?(P-41) realiza con éxito sus últimas pruebas de mar Archived 2017-04-13 at the Wayback Machine(spanish)
- ^ Hallado muerto un militar en un buque de la Armada en San Fernando Archived 2017-04-13 at the Wayback Machine(spanish)
- ^ El patrullero oceánico ‘Meteoro’ finaliza su crucero de resistencia(spanish)
- ^ Recuperan los primeros restos del helicóptero siniestrado en Canarias Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine(spanish)
- ^ "Spain sends warships to Black Sea, considers sending warplanes". Reuters. 2022-01-20. Retrieved 2022-01-22.