Lazaga-class patrol vessel

Patrol boat Cadarso of the Spanish Navy in 1989. It was transferred to the Colombian Navy in 1997, where it was renamed ARC Jorge Enrique Márquez Durán
Class overview
NameLazaga class
Builders
Operators
Built1974–1982
In service1974–present
Planned10
Completed10
Active4
Retired6 (1 pending final disposition as of 2011)
Scrapped5: 4 scrapped, 1 purposefully sunk
General characteristics
TypePatrol vessel
Displacement303 tonnes
Length57.4 m (188 ft 4 in)
Beam7.6 m (24 ft 11 in)
Draught2.6 m (8 ft 6 in)
Installed power8,045 hp (5,999 kW)
Speed31 knots (57 km/h; 36 mph)
Range3,000 nmi (5,600 km; 3,500 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Complement41
Sensors &
processing systems
  • Surface search: 1 Thales ZW-06 (Morocco)
  • Navigation: 1 Raytheon (Spain)
  • Targeting: 1 Thales WM-22.
Armament
  • 1 × 76 mm (3 in)/62 Oto Melara cannon
  • 1 × 40 mm (1.57 in)/70 Breda-Bofors cannon
  • 2 × 20 mm (0.79 in) Oerlikon AA cannon

The Lazaga class is a series of midsize patrol vessels for coastal and exclusive economic zone patrol, built by the Spanish National Bazán shipyards (now Navantia) for the Spanish Navy and the Royal Moroccan Navy. Two of the Spanish units were later transferred to the Colombian Navy.

Based on the German Type 143 Albatros-class vessels, the hull of the first unit was built in Germany and the rest were built in San Fernando, Cádiz, Spain in a similar way to that of the Barceló-class patrol boat, in 1976–1977. A second batch of four units was built in 1980–1982 for the Royal Moroccan Navy, which were slightly different from the initial units in armament and navigational systems, as they included missile capability (Exocet MM-40), although that was later removed.