Damen Stan 4207 patrol vessel - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

The Damen Stan Patrol 4100, Damen Stan Patrol 4207 and Damen Stan Patrol 4708 are three related designs from the Damen Group

Damen Group

Damen is a Dutch shipbuilding company which was founded in 1927 by Jan and Marinus Damen in a self-built workshop. In 1954 their 200th ship was delivered.-History:...

, a Dutch

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

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The Stan 4207 design are 42.8 metres (140.4 ft) patrol vessels.
They are 7.1 metres (23.3 ft) wide, and can travel at 22 knots.
They are designed to carry a complement of approximately a dozen.
The Stan 4708 are 46.8 metres (153.5 ft) long, 8.11 metres (26.6 ft) wide, have a maximum speed of 23.8 knots, and carry a crew of 16-24.

Vessels

Vessels of this type have been supplied to, or ordered by a number of countries.
As of October 2007 nineteen vessels had been built.
Many of the agencies that employ these vessels have them delivered without armament, or solely with small arms

Small arms

Small arms is a term of art used by armed forces to denote infantry weapons an individual soldier may carry. The description is usually limited to revolvers, pistols, submachine guns, carbines, assault rifles, battle rifles, multiple barrel firearms, sniper rifles, squad automatic weapons, light...

. They are equipped with water cannon

Water cannon

A water cannon is a device that shoots a high-pressure stream of water. Typically, a water cannon can deliver a large volume of water, often over dozens of metres / hundreds of feet. They are used in firefighting and riot control. Most water cannon fall under the category of a fire...

. Many of the agencies that employ these vessels specified they should be equipped with stern launching ramp, capable of launching and retrieving a 7.9 metres (25.9 ft) pursuit craft without first stopping. The vessels are equipped with a horizontal thruster in their bows, to aid maneuvering in tight conditions, such as mooring in crowded anchorages.

Nation	Date	Quantity	Type	Notes
Netherlands Netherlands The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...	2001	2	4207	In 2001 the Netherlands ordered two vessels to serve in the Dutch customs' service. Visarend commissioned in 2001, Zeearend in 2002.
United Kingdom United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...	2001	4	4207	the UKBA 42m Customs Cutters Seeker, Searcher, Vigilant and Valiant are operated by the United Kingdom Border Agency.
Jamaica Jamaica Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length, up to in width and 10,990 square kilometres in area. It is situated in the Caribbean Sea, about south of Cuba, and west of Hispaniola, the island harbouring the nation-states Haiti and the Dominican Republic...	2005	3	4207	The three vessels which form the "County class Offshore Patrol Vessel" are HMJS Surrey, HMJS Cornwall and HMJS Middlesex. They were built in the Netherlands, and the last vessel was delivered in December 2006.
Barbados Barbados Barbados is an island country in the Lesser Antilles. It is in length and as much as in width, amounting to . It is situated in the western area of the North Atlantic and 100 kilometres east of the Windward Islands and the Caribbean Sea; therein, it is about east of the islands of Saint...	2007	3	4207	Built for the Barbados Coast Guard Barbados Coast Guard The Barbados Coast Guard is the maritime division of the Barbados Defence Force. Its responsibilities are patrolling Barbados' territorial waters as well as drug interdiction and humanitarian and life-saving exercises. The Barbados Coast Guard currently is based at its new home at in Bridgetown,... . HMBS Leonard C Banfield HMBS Leonard C Banfield HMBS Leonard C Banfield is patrol vessel of the Barbados Coast Guard.She was commissioned on September 14, 2007. She is built to the design of the Damen Group's Stan 4207 patrol vessel, a class of 240 ton vessels.... and HMBS Rudyard Lewis were scheduled to be delivered in 2008. HMBS Trident was scheduled for delivery in 2009.
Albania Albania Albania , officially known as the Republic of Albania , is a country in Southeastern Europe, in the Balkans region. It is bordered by Montenegro to the northwest, Kosovo to the northeast, the Republic of Macedonia to the east and Greece to the south and southeast. It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea...	2007	4	4207	The Iliria and three other vessels: Orik Albanian patrol vessel Orik Orik is a patrol vessel of the Albanian Navy Brigade, built by the Damen Group.She was the first Damen Stan 4207 patrol vessel to be built, and was commissioned in 2011... , Lisus and Butrindi.
South Africa South Africa The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...	2004	3	4708	Lilian Ngoyi, Ruth First and Victoria Mxenge are employed by the South African Deptartment of Environmental Affairs.
Netherlands Antilles Netherlands Antilles The Netherlands Antilles , also referred to informally as the Dutch Antilles, was an autonomous Caribbean country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, consisting of two groups of islands in the Lesser Antilles: Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao , in Leeward Antilles just off the Venezuelan coast; and Sint... & Aruba Aruba Aruba is a 33 km-long island of the Lesser Antilles in the southern Caribbean Sea, located 27 km north of the coast of Venezuela and 130 km east of Guajira Peninsula...	1998	3	4100	Jaguar, Panter and Poema employed by the Netherlands Antilles & Aruba Coast Guard Netherlands Antilles & Aruba Coast Guard The Dutch Caribbean Coastguard or DCCG is the coast guard of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the Caribbean. The unit is a joint effort between all constituent countries within the Kingdom... .
Vietnam Vietnam Vietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...	2004	3	4100	SAR-411, SAR-412 and SAR-413 employed by Vietnam's Vinamarine search and rescue Search and rescue Search and rescue is the search for and provision of aid to people who are in distress or imminent danger.The general field of search and rescue includes many specialty sub-fields, mostly based upon terrain considerations... service.
Canada Canada Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...	2009	9	4207	The Department of Fisheries and Oceans announced it would be purchasing 9 patrol vessels for the Canadian Coast Guard Canadian Coast Guard The Canadian Coast Guard is the coast guard of Canada. It is a federal agency responsible for providing maritime search and rescue , aids to navigation, marine pollution response, marine radio, and icebreaking... .
United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...			4708	The United States Coast Guard United States Coast Guard The United States Coast Guard is a branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven U.S. uniformed services. The Coast Guard is a maritime, military, multi-mission service unique among the military branches for having a maritime law enforcement mission and a federal regulatory agency... is proposing the purchase of 24-34 cutters as the Sentinel class.
Bulgaria Bulgaria Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...	2010	1	4207	The Bulgarian Border Police accepted delivery of the Obzor on July 16, 2010.

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