Lillian Ngoyi (patrol vessel)
South African environmental patrol vessel Ruth First, second of the three vessels in the Lillian Ngoyi class
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| Name: | Lillian Ngoyi |
| Namesake: | Lillian Ngoyi |
| Operator: | Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries |
| Builder: | Farocean Marine, Cape Town |
| Laid down: | February 2003 |
| Launched: | 27 September 2004 |
| In service: | 16 November 2004 |
| Status: | in active service, as of 2012[update] |
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| Class and type: | Lillian Ngoyi-class environmental inshore patrol vessels |
| Type: | Damen Stan 4207 vessel |
| Length: | 46.8 m (153 ft 7 in) |
| Beam: | 8.11 m (26 ft 7 in) |
| Draught: | 4 m (13 ft 1 in) |
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| Speed: | 25 knots (46 km/h; 29 mph) |
| Range: | 3,500 nmi (6,500 km; 4,000 mi) at 15 kn (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
| Endurance: | 14 days |
| Complement: | 13 + 2 fishery conservation officers |
Lillian Ngoyi is the lead vessel in the South African Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries'sLillian Ngoyi-class inshore patrol vessels. She was built in South Africa by Farocean Marine based on the Damen Stan patrol vessel 4708 design.
Within months of her commissioning the South African government was reporting successful anti-poaching operations.
Like her sister ships, Ruth First and Victoria Mxenge she is named in honor of an anti-apartheid activist — Lillian Ngoyi.
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