RSS Vengeance
Appearance
RSS Vengeance during CARAT 2006
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History | |
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Singapore | |
Name | Vengeance |
Namesake | Vengeance |
Builder | ST Engineering |
Launched | 23 December 1990 |
Commissioned | 25 May 1991 |
Homeport | Tuas |
Identification | Pennant number: 93 |
Motto | Fight For The Right |
Status | Active |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Victory-class corvette |
Displacement | 595 t (586 long tons; 656 short tons) |
Length | 62 m (203 ft 5 in) |
Beam | 8.5 m (27 ft 11 in) |
Draught | 2.6 m (8 ft 6 in) |
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Speed |
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Range | 4,000 nmi (7,400 km) at 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph) |
Complement | 49 with 8 officers |
Sensors and processing systems |
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Electronic warfare & decoys | |
Armament |
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Aircraft carried | 1× Boeing ScanEagle unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) |
RSS Vengeance (93) is the sixth ship of the Victory-class corvette of the Republic of Singapore Navy.[1]
Construction and career
[edit]Vengeance was launched on 23 December 1990 by ST Engineering and was commissioned on 25 May 1991.
During Workyear 2003/2004, she was awarded Best Ship Award and Operational Excellence Award by the navy.[2]
RSS Vengeance took part in the inaugural Exercise Bersama Padu, a joint Five Power Defence Arrangements (FPDA) exercise, in 2006.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ "Victory Class Missile Corvettes - Naval Technology". www.naval-technology.com. Retrieved 26 June 2021.
- ^ "Factsheet - RSS Vengeance" (PDF).
- ^ "EXERCISE BERSAMA PADU 2006". www.nas.gov.sg. Retrieved 18 March 2022.