Damen Stan Patrol 4207

The Dutch shipbuilding firm The Damen Group, designs and manufactures a range of patrol vessels, of various sizes, including the Damen Stan 4207 Patrol Vessels.^[2][3] The Damen Stan patrol vessel designs' names include a four digit code, where the first two digits are the vessel's length, in metres, and the second two digits are its width.^[2]

Netherlands Coast Guard patrol vessel Visarend.
Class overview
Builders	Damen Group
Operators	Albanian Coast Guard Royal Bahamas Defence Force Barbados Coast Guard Bulgarian Border Police Canadian Coast Guard Honduran Navy Venezuelan Navy Netherlands Coast Guard Mexican Navy United Kingdom Border Force Venezuelan Navy
Subclasses	Hero class (Canada) County class (Jamaica) Tenochtitlan class (Mexico) UKBF 42m Customs Cutter (UK)
Built	2001 - present
In commission	2001 - present
General characteristics
Type	Stan Patrol 4207[1]
Length	42.8 m (140.4 ft)
Beam	7.1 m (23.3 ft)
Speed	26 knots (48 km/h)

Operators

Over a dozen nations have classes of vessels based on the Damen Stan 4207 patrol vessel design, including:

• Albanian Coast Guard (4)^[4][5]
• Royal Bahamas Defence Force (4)^[6][7]
• Barbados Coast Guard^{[2][8][9][10]}
• Bulgarian Border Police^[11]
• Canadian Coast Guard^{[12][13][14][15][16]}
• Honduran Navy^[2]
• Jamaica Defence Force^[2][8][17]
• Mexican Navy^[2][18][19]
• Netherlands Coast Guard^[20]
• Nicaraguan Navy
• United Kingdom Border Force
• Venezuelan Navy
• Vietnam (Vietnam Maritime search and Rescue Coordination Center & Vietnam Border Guard)

Some variants are equipped with deck guns, while others are equipped for peacetime duties like search and rescue, fishery protection, environmental monitoring, or intercepting smugglers.^[21]

Ships in class

Name	Ship Builder	Commissioned	Decommissioned	Status	Note
Netherlands Coastguard
Visarend	Damen Shipyard	2001		In service
Zeearend		2002		In service
United Kingdom Border Force (UKBF 42m Customs Cutter)
HMC Seeker	Damen Shipyard	2001		In service
HMC Searcher		2002		In service
HMC Vigilant		2003		In service
HMC Valiant		2004		In service
Jamaica Defence Force (County-class)
HMJS Cornwall (2005)	Damen Shipyard	October 27, 2005	2017	Sold to Nicaraguan Navy	[22][23]
HMJS Middlesex (2005)		April 7, 2006	2017	Sold to Nicaraguan Navy, then to SVG Coast Guard	[22][23][24]
HMJS Surrey		June 26, 2007		In service
HMJS Cornwall (2016)		January, 2017		In service	[25][26]
HMJS Middlesex (2017)		January, 2017		In service	[25][26]
Barbados Coast Guard
HMBS Leonard C Banfield	Damen Shipyard	September 14, 2007		In service
HMBS Rudyard Lewis		September 13, 2008		In service
HMBS Trident		April 25, 2009		In service
Albanian Coast Guard (Iliria-class)
Iliria	Damen Shipyard	August, 2008		In service
Oriku	Pashaliman Shipyard	September, 2011		In service
Lisus		2012		In service
Butrinti		2014		In service
Bulgarian Border Police
Obzor (525)		July 16, 2010		In service	[27]
Canadian Coast Guard (Hero-class)
CCGS Private Robertson V.C.	Irving Shipbuilding	2012		In service	[28]
CCGS Caporal Kaeble V.C.		2013		In service	[29]
CCGS Corporal Teather C.V.		2013		In service	[30]
CCGS Constable Carrière		2013		In service	[31]
CCGS G. Peddle S.C.		2013		In service	[32]
CCGS Corporal McLaren M.M.V.		2013		In service	[33]
CCGS A. LeBlanc		March 20, 2014		In service	[34]
CCGS M. Charles M.B.		2014		In service	[35]
CCGS Captain Goddard M.S.M.		October 15, 2014		In service	[36]
Mexican Navy (Tenochtitlan-class)
ARM Tenochtitlan (PC-331)	Tampico Naval Shipyard	June 1, 2012		In service	[37][38]
ARM Teotihuacan (PC-332)		June 1, 2012		In service	[37][38]
ARM Palenque (PC-333)		April 21, 2014		In service	[39]
ARM Mitla (PC-334)		January 7, 2015		In service	[40]
ARM Uxmal (PC-335)		July 23, 2015		In service	[41]
ARM Tajín (PC-336)		November 23, 2015		In service	[42]
ARM Tulum (PC-337)		August 11, 2016		In service	[43]
ARM Monte Albán (PC-338)		April 21, 2017		In service	[44]
ARM Bonampak (PC-339)		July 28, 2017		In service	[45]
ARM Chichen Itzá (PC-340)		November 6, 2017		In service	[46]
Royal Bahamas Defence Force (Legend-class)
HMBS Arthur Dion Hanna (P421)	Damen Shipyard	June 12, 2014		In service
HMBS Durward Knowles (P422)		June 23, 2014		In service
HMBS Leon Livingstone Smith (P423)		September 23, 2014		In service
HMBS Rolly Gray (P424)		May 4, 2015		In service	[47]
Venezuelan Navy
Fernando Gómez de Saa PG-61	Damen & UCOCAR	June 7, 2014		In service	[48]
Agustín Armario PG-62		2019		In service
Guartcoastas PG-63	Damen Shipyard			Completed for Jamaica	[26]
Chitty Gurling PG-64				Completed for Jamaica	[26]
PG-65	UCOCAR			Cancelled in 2016
PG-66				Cancelled in 2016
Nicaraguan Navy (County-class)
Soberanía I 409	Damen Shipyard	August, 2019		In service	[22][23]
Soberanía II 411		August, 2019		In service	[22][23]
Honduran Navy
FNH Lempira (FNH-1401)	Damen Shipyard			In service
FNH Morazán (FNH-1402)				In service
Vietnam Maritime Search and Rescue Coordination Center
SAR-411	Damen Shipyard			In service	[49]
SAR-412				In service
SAR-413				In service
Vietnam Border Guard
BP 29-19-01	Sông Thu Corporation	January 18, 2018		In service	[50]
BP 48-19-01				In service
BP 27-19-01		March 7, 2019		In service	[51]
BP 28-19-01				In service

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