Brave-class patrol boat
 HMS Brave Borderer on the Rhine, 1961
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| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Name | Brave-class fast attack craft |
| Builders | Vosper & Company, Portchester |
| Operators |  Royal Navy |
| Preceded by | Bold-class Fast Attack Craft |
| Built | 1958–1960 |
| In commission | 1960–1970 |
| Completed | 2 |
| Retired | 2 |
| General characteristics [1] | |
| Displacement | list error: <br /> list (help) 89 long tons (90 t) standard 114 long tons (116 t) full load |
| Length | 98 ft (30 m) |
| Beam | 25 ft (7.6 m) |
| Draught | 7 ft (2.1 m) |
| Propulsion | list error: <br /> list (help) 2 × Rover auxiliary gas turbine turbo generators 3 × Bristol Proteus gas turbines 10,500 hp (7,830 kW) |
| Speed | list error: <br /> list (help) 40 knots (74 km/h; 46 mph) cruising 52 knots (96 km/h; 60 mph) maximum |
| Complement | 22 (3 officers, 3 petty officers, 16 ratings) |
| Armament | list error: <br /> list (help) As Motor Torpedo Boat • 1 × Bofors 40 mm gun • 4 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes • 2 × depth charges As Motor Gun Boat • 2 × Bofors 40 mm guns • 2 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes |
The Brave fast patrol boats were a class of patrol boats that were the last of their type for the Royal Navy (RN) Coastal Forces division.
They followed the Bold class, which were a pair of experimental turbojet powered boats. Only two Braves would be built for the RN, but the design was simplified and improved for export sales to West Germany (two, called the Vosper-class), Denmark (five of the Søløven-class), Greece, Malaysia for the RMN in 1966 (KD Perkasa P150, KD Handalan P151, KD Gempita P152 and KD Pendekar P153), Brunei and Libya, and was also the basis for the Scimitar class fast training boat.
Power came from three engines; maritime versions of the Bristol Proteus turboprop, delivering a total of 10,500 hp (7,800 kW). These gave these 100-foot-long (30 m), 100-ton boats a cruising speed of about 40 knots (74 km/h). Their maximum speed was 52 knots (96 km/h).
They were built to be able to be used as either Motor Torpedo Boats or Motor Gun Boats. For the former role they had a 40 mm Bofors gun, four torpedoes (21 inch diameter) and two depth charges, in the latter two 40 mm guns and two torpedoes.
Boats
The two RN craft were both built by Vospers at Portchester:
- HMS Brave Borderer (P1011), laid down on 7 January 1958
- HMS Brave Swordsman (P1012), 22 May 1958
See also
Media related to Brave class fast patrol boat at Wikimedia Commons
References
- ^ "Brave Class Fast Attack Craft". www.btinternet.com. Retrieved 2009-12-14.
External links
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