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AL MANSUR (B2) patrol craft

Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2015 9:13 pm
by aukepalmhof
Built as a fast patrol craft under yard No 387 by Brooke Marine, Lowestoft, U.K. for the Oman Navy.
Launched as the AL MANSUR (B2) five sisters.
Displacement 135 ton standard, 153 full load, dim. 37.5 x 6.9 x 1.7m. (draught)
Powered by two diesel engines, 4,800 bhp., twin shafts, speed 27 knots.
Armament: Two MM38 Exocet SSM launchers, 2 – 40mm guns, 1 – 76mm gun and 1 – 20mm gun.
Crew 27.
26 March 1973 completed.

1977/78 Modernized by Brooke Marine, Lowestoft.
2015 I can’t find when decommissioned but she is not more in service.

Oman 1980 150b sg 235, scott?
Source: Fast Attack Craft by Bernard Ireland. Internet.

Re: AL MANSUR (B2) patrol craft

Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2015 7:24 pm
by D. v. Nieuwenhuijzen
Sister ships AL BUSHRA and AL NEJAH.
At redelivery of the modernized ships from Brooke, Lowestoft, as deck cargo on the German Hansa ship TRAUTENFELS, during a heavy storm in the Gulf of Biscay she lost the AL BUSHRA, on 28-12-'78.
(Also Oman 1981 20 b. on 150 b. StG.241)