Grenadan patrol boat Levera (PB-02)

History


Name:	Levera
Builder:	SeaArk, Monticello, Arkansas
Commissioned:	September 1995
Status:	in active service, as of 2016
General characteristics
Class & type:	Dauntless-class patrol boat
Displacement:	11 long tons (11 t) full
Length:	12.19 m (40 ft 0 in)
Beam:	3.86 m (12 ft 8 in)
Draft:	0.69 m (2 ft 3 in)
Propulsion:	2 × Caterpillar 3208TA diesel engines, 850 bhp (634 kW), 2 props, 250 gallons fuel
Speed:	28 knots (52 km/h; 32 mph)
Range:	200 nmi (370 km) at 30 kn (56 km/h; 35 mph) 400 nmi (740 km) at 22 kn (41 km/h; 25 mph)
Complement:	5
Sensors and processing systems:	1 × Raytheon R40X navigation radar
Armament:	2 × single 12.7 mm machine guns 2 × single 7.62 mm machine guns

Levera (PB-02) is a United States-built Dauntless-class patrol boat ordered for the Grenadan Coast Guard. She was in service by September 1995 and was donated to Grenada in a foreign aid package. The builder was SeaArk, and the construction was completed at Monticello, Arkansas in the US.

References

Wertheim, Eric, The Naval Institute Guide to Combat Fleets of the World, 2005-2006; Their Ships, Aircraft, and Systems. US Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Maryland. 2005.

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