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In 1977 the Navy (Marine) of Suriname received three large patrol vessels from the Dutch, built by De Vries Scheepsbouw. With a length of 32 meters each ship had two Paxman 12YHMC diesel engines of 1200HP performing a maximum speed of 20 knots. Delivery was between February 1977 and 1978 and the hull numbers were S-401, S-402 and S-403.
Three ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Surinam, after an English variation of Suriname: HMS Surinam was an 18-gun sloop , previously the French Hussard or Hussar . [ 1 ] She was captured in 1799, captured by the Dutch in 1803 but recaptured in 1807 and re-added the following year.
USS George Washington Carrier Strike Group underway in the Atlantic USS Constitution under sail for the first time in 116 years on 21 July 1997 The United States Navy has approximately 470 ships in both active service and the reserve fleet; of these approximately 50 ships are proposed or scheduled for retirement by 2028, while approximately 95 new ships are in either the planning and ordering ...
On September 9, 2014, the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) through the Department of Transportation (DOTr) and the French Shipbuilder OCEA entered an agreement to supply the latter with four 24 m FPB-72 Patrol Boats and one 82 m (269 ft 0 in) OPV-270 Offshore Patrol Vessel provided by a loan granted by the French Government.
Benin Navy: 1978; 46 years ago () French: Forces navales béninoises [15] Bolivia Bolivian Navy: 1963; 61 years ago () Spanish: Fuerza Naval Boliviana [16] Brazil Brazilian Navy: 1822; 202 years ago () Portuguese: Marinha do Brasil [17] Brunei Royal Brunei Navy: 1965; 59 years ago () Malay: Tentera Laut Diraja Brunei [18] Bulgaria
Goslar is a partly-submerged shipwreck in the Suriname River in Paramaribo, Suriname. It is the remains of a Norddeutscher Lloyd (NDL) steam turbine cargo ship that was built in 1929. When the Second World War began in 1939, she sought refuge in Surinam , which was then a Dutch colony .
SS Ganges was a 3,475-ton steamship, built for the Nourse Line by Charles Connell and Company of Glasgow and launched on 9 March 1906. She made seven trips carrying Indian indentured labourers from Calcutta and Madras to Fiji, ten trips to Trinidad and Tobago and also trips to Surinam and British Guiana.
Suriname Netherlands: World War II: Convoy TAG 5: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Caribbean Sea) by U-558 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of thirteen of her 82 crew. Survivors were rescued by a United States Navy ship. [122] Vilja Norway