Feature 6
engines in long endurance operations
and adverse conditions – robustness,
high availability, and excellent operating
economy and low emissions levels.
The new OPVs will replace two of the
Royal Danish Navy’s smaller and old
layout of the single-shaft propulsion system with 2 x 8l27/38 medium-speed
Agdlek class inspection cutters, which
engines driving the propeller and shaft alternator via a common main gearbox.
entered service in the early 1970s. WT
Yard delay for Trinidad OPVs
a Us$285 million contract to build OPVs for trinidad and tobago has slipped by between six months and a year. the
contract was won in early 2007 by the Vt Group whose shipbuilding activities have since been merged with Bae
systems to become BVt surface fleet.
according to Jane’s Fighting Ships, the first ship was to be commissioned in April and the second in October. But
BVT have confirmed the first ship has not yet been launched and the second will be launched in November.
all three ships were scheduled to be built at the former Vt Group’s Portsmouth facility, which is also involved in
the Daring (type 45) class destroyer programme and will produce part of the future aircraft Carrier (CVf).
Although the Portsmouth facility is one of the most modern in the world, BVT confirmed to Naval Spyglass that it
has fallen behind with the trinidad and tobago programme.
Now, one of the ships will be built at the scotstoun yard in Portsmouth (a former Bae systems site) and it will be
involved in another, aided by the Govan yard from across the Clyde.


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