Laid down February 2003 Construction started February 2003 Length 47 m Endurance 14 days 0 hours | Namesake Lillian Ngoyi In service 16 November 2004 Launched 27 September 2004 Draft 4 m | |
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Status in active service, as of 2012 | ||
Lillian Ngoyi is the lead vessel in the South African Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries's Lillian 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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