Nafanua II

**Nafanua II**
	The sister ship HMPNGS Ted Diro (P401) in the shipyard in Henderson , Western Australia
Ship data
flag	Samoa
Ship type	Patrol boat
class	Guardian class
Commissioning	2018
Ship dimensions and crew
length	39.5 m ( Lüa )
width	8 m
Draft	Max. 0.76 m
Machine system
machine	2 × Caterpillar diesel engines (type: 3516C)
Top ; speed	20 kn (37 km / h)
propeller	2

The Nafanua II is a Guardian-class patrol boat . It was built for the Samoa Police Department . The ship was provided by Australia and replaces the original Nafanua that had entered service in Samoa three decades earlier.

Australia provided twelve of the smaller, allied states of the Pacific Islands Forum with 22 patrol boats when the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea extended the Exclusive Economic Zone to up to 200 nm off the coasts of the respective countries.

On April 2, 2019, Police Commissioner Fuiavailili Egon Keil demanded that the ships be equipped with a machine gun stand for the safety of the crew. Australia therefore equipped the boats so that a machine gun and a larger cannon with a caliber of up to 30 mm can be installed. The original Nafanua and its sister ships were only equipped with small arms.

Footnotes

↑ Sapeer Mayron: Maritime police get $ 113,535 boost. In: Samoan Observer , August 15, 2018. "The change rooms are a necessary addition because in August 2019, the wing will receive an Australian government-funded Guardian Class Patrol Boat, which will be used by both male and female police."
↑ Adel Fruean: New patrol boat to boost maritime security. In: Samoan Observer, January 28, 2019. "Under the Pacific Maritime Security Program, Samoa will this year receive the Nafanua II - a bigger, more capable patrol boat - to enhance Samoa's capacity to secure its ocean resources and maritime domain."
↑ ^a ^b Samoa police patrol boat may be armed. Radio New Zealand , April 2, 2019. “The service will take delivery of a new state-of-the-art patrol boat, Nafanua II, in September and the Police Commissioner Fuiavailili Egon Keil wants to keep an eye on how the future shapes up with their surveillance work. "

[1] Sapeer Mayron: Maritime police get $ 113,535 boost. In: Samoan Observer , August 15, 2018. "The change rooms are a necessary addition because in August 2019, the wing will receive an Australian government-funded Guardian Class Patrol Boat, which will be used by both male and female police."

[2] Adel Fruean: New patrol boat to boost maritime security. In: Samoan Observer, January 28, 2019. "Under the Pacific Maritime Security Program, Samoa will this year receive the Nafanua II - a bigger, more capable patrol boat - to enhance Samoa's capacity to secure its ocean resources and maritime domain."

[Rnz2019-04-02-3] Samoa police patrol boat may be armed. Radio New Zealand , April 2, 2019. “The service will take delivery of a new state-of-the-art patrol boat, Nafanua II, in September and the Police Commissioner Fuiavailili Egon Keil wants to keep an eye on how the future shapes up with their surveillance work. "