Launched the first patrol ship to Nigeria
First built for Nigeria Navy patrol vessel project P18N 91 F during the launching of the Chinese shipyard Wuchang Shipbuilding Industry Company.
January 27, 2014 in Chinese shipyard Wuchang Shipbuilding Industry Company in Wuhan, which is part of the State Shipbuilding Corporation, China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (CSIC), the launching of the water head built for Nigeria Navy patrol boat project P18N. The ship, board room VMC Nigeria
F 91, yet has no official Nigerian names. Letting
F 91 customer scheduled for mid-2014. Simultaneously with the descent of the shipyard ceremony beginning of the formation of the second housing sister ship, the assembly of which is supplied from Wuhan structures shall then be carried out already in Nigeria.
In April 2012, Nigeria has entered into a contract with China to build two patrol ships of the project P18N. Under the contract, the lead ship built Wuchang Shipbuilding Industry Company, where he began construction in October 2012, and the second to be built on 50% in Nigeria.
Patrol boats project P18N have a displacement 1,800 tons (probably full), length 95 m, width 12.2 m and 3.5 m average deepening energy plant consists of two diesel engines MTU 20V 4000M, the maximum speed is 21 knots. The crew of 70 people, maximum autonomy of 20 days. Ships equipped with 76-mm gun mount H/PJ26 (Chinese clone of the AK-176), and two 30 mm gun mounts H/PJ14, and must bear the helicopter class Z-9 in the hangar.