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The Cutlass class is a class of fast patrol boat of the British Royal Navy. The two vessels of this class are a commercial HPB-1900 design, built to military specifications by Merseyside -based Marine Specialised Technology [ 2 ] at a cost of £9.9m for two (including 4 years support). [ 3 ]
Arnie Gray sold his portion of G-W Invader boat factory to George Wooldridge before he moved to Tampa, Florida where he lived until he died in 1997. Transfer of ownership after sale to Mr. Wooldridge has been mentioned but not substantiated. Roger Harmon bought the company in 1985, and later sold it in 1995 to a Muncie, Indiana-based investment ...
Cutlass (1970) Sabre (1971) Bird-class large patrol craft Kingfisher (1975) Cygnet (1976) Peterel (1977) Sandpiper (1977) Redpole (1985) Small Bird-class patrol craft Cormorant - commissioned 1985; Hart - commissioned 1985; Jura (1972) offshore patrol craft; Island-class offshore patrol craft Jersey (1976) Guernsey (1977) Shetland (1977) Orkney ...
The Scimitar-class boats were deployed in Gibraltar after 2003 but were withdrawn from the territory in 2020, being then replaced by two Archer-class boats on an interim basis until the arrival of the Cutlass-class vessels. On 4 May 2022, she was commissioned into the Royal Navy. [8]
The cutlass remained an official weapon in the United States Navy until it was stricken from the Navy's active inventory in 1949. The cutlass was seldom used for weapons training after the early 1930s. The last new model of cutlass adopted by the US Navy was the US M1917 cutlass, adopted during World War I; it was based on the Dutch M1898 klewang.
Boats & landing craft carried: 11 m RHIB, 40 ft (12 m) high-speed boats: Complement: 15 to 50 core crew, 75 mission crew (Blue and Gold crews) Sensors and processing systems: TRS-4D AESA radar: Armament: BAE Systems Mk 110 57 mm gun; RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missiles; Honeywell Mk 50 Torpedo; NETFIRES PAM missile in the ASuW module; 2 .50 cal ...
As of 20 June 2015, the 68-acre Jeffboat shipyard is owned by American Commercial Lines Inc. (ACL), a company also based in Jeffersonville, Indiana. Mark Knoy is the CEO. In turn, Platinum Equity owns ACL, the largest inland shipbuilder in the United States, building both river barges and ocean barges.
Three ships of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Cutlass after the weapon: HMS Cutlass (G74), a Weapon-class destroyer laid down in 1945 but cancelled before completion. HMS Cutlass (P274), a Scimitar-class fast training boat launched in 1968 and disposed of in 1982. HMS Cutlass (P295) is the first of the new Gibraltar fast patrol boats.