HMS Blazer (P279)

HMS Blazer, 2007
History
United Kingdom
Name:	HMS Blazer
Operator:	Royal Navy
Builder:	Vosper Thornycroft
Commissioned:	1988
Motto:	"Premier in the First"
Status:	in active service
General characteristics
Class and type:	Archer-class patrol vessel
Displacement:	54 tonnes
Length:	20.8 m
Beam:	5.8 m
Draught:	1.8 m
Propulsion:	2 shafts, Rolls Royce M800T diesels, 1,590 bhp
Speed:	24 kn (44 km/h) 45 kn (83 km/h) (Hull design, but limited due to engine fitted)
Range:	550 nmi (1,020 km)
Complement:	16 (training) 12 (operational)
Sensors and processing systems:	Decca 1216 navigation radar
Armament:	1 × Oerlikon 20 mm cannon on fo'c'sle ("for but not with") 3 × General purpose machine guns

HMS Blazer is an Archer-class patrol vessel of the Royal Navy. She was built by Vosper Thornycroft. She is just over 20 metres long and 5.8 metres wide and powered by two Rolls-Royce diesel engines. The ship is based at HMS Nelson, the shore base in Portsmouth and was commissioned in 1988.

Blazer carries a crew of four plus a commanding officer. She operates with a training officer plus a complement of students which is attached to the Southampton University Royal Naval Unit (SURNU), under the command of Lt Joseph Currin RN.

Tasking includes: officer cadet training with Britannia Royal Naval College; VVIP visits and security patrols.

In 1993 Blazer was involved in a fishing incident with French trawlers at the port of Cherbourg.

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