Damen Stan 4207 patrol vessel

Two of the Jamaican Coast Guard patrol vessels
Class overview
Builders:	Damen Group
Operators:	Albanian Naval Defense Forces Barbados Coast Guard Bulgarian Border Police Canadian Coast Guard Honduran Navy Venezuelan Navy Netherlands Coast Guard Mexican Navy South African Department of Environmental Affairs United Kingdom Border Agency Vietnam Coast Guard
Subclasses:	UKBA 42m Customs Cutter (UK) Hero-class patrol vessel (Canada) County-class offshore patrol vessel (Jamaica)
Built:	2001 - Present
In commission:	2001 - Present
Planned:	24-34
Completed:	35
Active:	35
General characteristics
Type:	Damen Stan 4100
General characteristics
Type:	Damen Stan 4207
Length:	42.8 metres (140 ft)
Beam:	7.1 metres (23 ft)
Speed:	26 kn (48.15 km/h)
Complement:	17
General characteristics
Type:	Damen Stan 4708
Length:	46.8 metres (154 ft)
Beam:	8.11 metres (26.6 ft)
Speed:	23.8 kn (44.08 km/h)
Complement:	16-24

The Dutch shipbuilding firm The Damen Group, designs and manufactures a wide variety of vessels, including a range of related patrol vessels known generally as the Damen Stan Patrol Vessels.

The Damen Stan patrol vessel designs' names include a four digit code, where the first two digits are the vessel's length, in metres, and the second two digits are its width. Over a dozen nations have classes of vessels based on the Damen Stan 4207 patrol vessel design, which are 42 metres (138 ft) long and 7 metres (23 ft) wide. The United States Coast Guard's Sentinel class cutters, based on the Damen Stan 4708 patrol vessel design, are 47 metres (154 ft) long and 8 metres (26 ft) wide.

In the late 1990s three 41 patrol vessels were built for service in the Dutch Antilles, and experience with those vessels informed the later designs of the 4207 and 4708.

Rather than design vessels that were strictly for naval use, the underlying Damen Stan patrol vessel designs do not include weapons, or a sensor suite. The designs have been adapted for constabulary duties, and for fishery and environmental patrols. According to Sanjay Badri-Maharaj, of the -Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, described how adding an and military class sensor suite to the USCG's Sentinel class boosted its cost per vessel from $20 million USD to $65 million.

In recent years Damen has developed Damen Stan patrol vessels based on their Sea Axe bow design. The Stan 4207 design are 42.8 metres (140 ft) patrol vessels. They are 7.1 metres (23 ft) wide, and can travel at 22 knots. They are designed to carry a complement of approximately a dozen. The Stan 4708 are 46.8 metres (154 ft) long, 8.11 metres (26.6 ft) wide, have a maximum speed of 23.8 knots, and carry a crew of 16-24.