Damen Shipyards Cape Town (DSCT), a subsidiary of the Netherlands-based Damen International Shipyards Group, announced on Thursday that it had launched the first (of three) Multimission Inshore Patrol Vessels (MMIPVs) for the South African Navy (SAN). These new vessels will replace the SAN’s now elderly offshore patrol vessels (OPVs), which were originally strike craft (large missile boats) before their conversion to patrol vessels. (Although designated as inshore vessels, the new MMIPVs displace more – have a greater tonnage – than the OPVs they are replacing.) “This is the culmination of three years of hard work by a dedicated team of people,” highlighted DSCT project manager Ian Stewart. “Ultimately, more than one million man-hours of work will be invested in the construction fo the three MMIPVs.”
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