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Alborán (P-62) is a Chilreu-class patrol boat of the Spanish Navy built in 1993. Named for Alboran Island, it is the first ship in the Spanish Navy to bear the name. Its primary mission is enforcing fishery regulations for the Spanish fishing fleet. The ship has a home port at the Cartagena Naval Base and is in the Maritime Action Force. [1]
The conn, also spelled con, cun, conne, cond, conde, and cund, is the status of being in control of a ship's movements while at sea. The following quote summarizes the use of the term: The following quote summarizes the use of the term:
The primary 3-inch gun of Atalaya. Atalaya is an offshore patrol vessel with a displacement of 1,200 tons. It is 68 m (223 ft 1 in) long, has a beam of 10 m (32 ft 10 in), and a draught of 3 m (9 ft 10 in).
The Serviola-class patrol boats are a series of patrol boats built in 1990 at the shipyard in Ferrol in the former Empresa Nacional Bazan (now NAVANTIA) for the Spanish Navy. They entered service with the Spanish Navy from October 1992. [1] They are based in the Galician port of Ferrol making most of their patrols along the Galician and ...
Lloyd’s Register (“LR”) load line mark and lines and timber load line mark and lines for power-driven merchant vessels Lloyd’s Register (“LR”) load line mark and lines for commercial sailing vessels. The original "Plimsoll mark" was a circle with a horizontal line through it to show the maximum draft of a ship.
At sea, falling overboard is one of the leading causes of death in boating; [1] fastening oneself to the ship with a safety harness tethered to a jackline reduces this risk. [ 2 ] Generally, the jacklines are run from the bow to the stern on both the port and starboard side of a ship.
A sound-powered telephone is a communication device that allows users to talk to each other with the use of a handset, similar to a conventional telephone, but without the use of external power. This technology has been used since at least 1944 [ 1 ] for both routine and emergency communication on ships to allow communication between key ...
The class has its roots in the late 1990s, and Spain ordered the submarines into production in 2003. Due to problems with the design, it had to be extensively redesigned in the 2010s, and a Spanish government budget crisis forced additional delays. On November 30, 2023, the first submarine of the class entered service with the Spanish Navy.