Next week on 18th April the commissioning of the Skrunda into the Latvian Navy will take place in Riga, Latvia. Built by Abeking & Rasmussen, Germany she is the first of a fleet of five patrol vessels, designed by the German yard: the four other vessels will be partly built in Lemwerder and at Riga Shipyard.The patrol boat design has a length of 25.7 m, beam of 13.0 m and a draft of 2.7 m, and is derived from a well proven Abeking & Rasmussen 25m SWATH Pilot Boat design. Skrundás twin propulsion units are installed in the SWATH lower hulls: MAN D 2842 engines rated 809kW at 2100 rpm, drive Servogear CPPs via Servogear reduction gearboxes. A speed of 21.4 kn was attained during trials. [More]