Samuel Beckett-class offshore patrol vessel
Samuel Beckett shortly after commissioning | |
| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Name | Samuel Beckett class |
| Builders | Appledore Shipbuilders |
| Operators | Irish Naval Service |
| Preceded by | Róisín class |
| Cost | €71.9 million per unit including main gun |
| In commission | As of December 2018 |
| Planned | 4 |
| Completed | 4 |
| Active | 4 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Offshore patrol vessel |
| Displacement | 2,256 tonnes |
| Length | 90 m (295 ft 3 in) |
| Beam | 14 m (45 ft 11 in) |
| Draught | 3.8 m (12 ft 6 in) |
| Propulsion | Two Wärtsilä medium speed diesel engines (5,440 kW (7,300 hp) each) 450 kW bow thruster |
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| Range | 6,000 nautical miles (11,000 km; 6,900 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
| Endurance | 21 days |
| Boats & landing craft carried | 3 × 8 m (26 ft) RHIB |
| Capacity | 3 × 6.1 m (20 ft) sea container, 1 x 5 ton, 9.56 m (31.4 ft) crane aft |
| Complement | 44 + up to 10 trainees |
| Sensors & processing systems | Fire control: Electro Optical |
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| Aviation facilities | UAV only |
The Samuel Beckett-class offshore patrol vessel is a class of offshore patrol vessels (OPV) ordered by the Irish Naval Service from October 2010. The first vessel is named Samuel Beckett and was commissioned in May 2014. Construction on this first vessel commenced in November 2011, A further three vessels were named James Joyce, William Butler Yeats and George Bernard Shaw, and delivered in 2015, 2016 and 2018 respectively.