Saettia class
     Saettia / Diciotti class |
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|---|---|
 Ubaldo Diciotti (CP 902) |
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| Overview | |
| Type | Patrol boat |
| units | 15 (all variants) |
| Shipyard |
Fincantieri , Muggiano, La Spezia |
| delivery | 1984, from 1999 |
| period of service |
since 1999 |
| Technical specifications | |
| displacement |
390 to 650 ts |
| length |
51.7 to 55.7 m |
| width |
8.1 to 8.8 m |
| Draft |
2.2 m |
| crew |
28 to 31 |
| drive |
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| speed |
> 30 kn |
| Range |
2,100 nm at 16 kn |
| Armament |
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The Saettia class is a patrol boat class developed by Fincantieri that includes some series or sub-classes, including the Diciotti class . Boats of this class were put into service by organizations from various countries, including the Italian Coast Guard .
Saettìa (from Saetta : "arrow", "lightning"; "arrow, lightning fast") is the Italian name for a small, fast type of merchant or warship that was widespread in Italian states until the 16th century. Later Saettia was used to describe fast and agile boats. Today it is an archaism .
history
In June 1984 Fincantieri put a test boat on the keel in Muggiano near La Spezia at his own expense, which was initially called the DA-360T and later the name Saettia . The boat was described as a mixture of a speedboat and a corvette . Since it was to be offered to naval forces, it was initially relatively heavily armed: it had a 76/62 compact gun, Otomat anti-ship missiles and a close-range defense system . In this form, however, the boat, which was completed at the end of 1985, had no commercial success. In 1999, after modifications, it was taken over by the Italian coast guard as an offshore patrol vessel . The previous armament and the associated sensors were removed except for a 25-mm on-board cannon.
In September 2000, the Coast Guard commissioned three more slightly modified boats, which are referred to as the Saettia class Mark II or, after the sub-class type boat, the “Diciotti class”. Shortly thereafter, she pulled options on two more boats of this sub-class, which was stretched from 51.7 m to 52.8 m compared to the original Saettia and received an improved drive.
Units Mark I / II
| Identifier | Surname | Commissioning | Callsign | Whereabouts |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CP 901 | Saettia | July 20, 1999 | IGKA | active |
| CP 902 | Ubaldo Diciotti | July 20, 2002 | IGSS | to Panama |
| CP 903 | Luigi Dattilo | November 30, 2002 | IGST | to Panama |
| CP 904 | Michele Fiorillo | January 2003 | IGSU | active |
| CP 905 | Alfredo Peluso | July 3, 2003 | IGTN | active |
| CP 906 | Oreste Corsi | January 8, 2004 | IGTZ | active |
All boats were built at the Fincantieri shipyard in Muggiano , named after former members of the coast guard (with the exception of the Saettia ) and stationed in Messina . As part of a cooperation agreement between Italy and Panama concluded on June 30, 2010 , the Italian coast guard handed over the two boats Ubaldo Diciotti and Luigi Dattilo as PO 901 and PO 902 to the Servicio Nacional Aeronaval (SENAN) of Panama. The two Italian boat names were given to two new patrol ships in 2012 and 2013, the Luigi Dattilo (CP 940) and the Ubaldo Diciotti (CP 941) of the Dattilo class .
Units Mark III / IV
As a partial replacement for its condor-class boats from the People's Navy , Malta received a slightly improved Saettia boat financed by Italy. This Mark III boat was launched again on June 24, 2005 at the Fincantieri shipyard in Muggiano and was handed over as P61 on October 1. The boat, which has been extended to 53.4 meters, displaces around 450 tons and has a helipad .
In 2006 Iraq ordered four boats of a further improved version (Mark IV). These boats, which were built in Riva Trigoso in January 2008 and then completed in La Spezia, are essentially the same as those in Malta, but they can accommodate up to 38 men and also have more powerful armament with a stabilized 30 mm on-board cannon. There is a daughter boat catch-up system at the stern. The four boats were handed over between May 15 and December 16, 2009 and are named Fatah , El-Nasir , Majid and Shmookh . Home port is Umm Qasr .
Saettia (CP 901) in Messina
Ubaldo Diciotti (CP 902) in Messina
Maltese P61
Seattia Stealth
In 2009, the United Arab Emirates initially ordered two boats of a completely redesigned version with a stealth design and 76 mm gun. These 55.7 meter long and 650 ton displacement boats form the Falaj-2 class .
