RKS Teanoai, during a joint exercise, on November 7, 2019
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History | |
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Kiribati | |
Name | Teanoai |
Operator | Kiribati |
Launched | 1994 |
Commissioned | January 1994 |
Identification | Call sign: T3GP[1] |
Status | Ship in active service |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Pacific Forum-class patrol boat |
Displacement | 162 tons |
Length | 103 ft (31 m) |
RKS Teanoai (301) is a Pacific Forum-class patrol boat operated by the Republic of Kiribati Police. Teanoai is one of twenty-two small patrol vessels Australia designed and built for smaller fellow members of the Pacific Forum, after the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea extended control of a 200-kilometre (108 nmi) exclusive economic zone for all maritime nations.[2][3]
Teanoai will be replaced by the larger and more capable Guardian-class patrol vessel Teanoai II in late 2020, postponed to July 2021.[4]
In 2006 Teanoai worked with the Greenpeace ship Esperanza on fishery patrol.[5]
In February 2018 Teanoai and RMIS Lomor performed a joint patrol of their waters.[6] On November 7, 2019, Teanoai rendezvoused with USCGC Stratton.[7] The vessels' crews engaged in boarding exercises, including both Stratton's pursuit boat, and her on-board helicopter.