NS Oryx
| History | |
|---|---|
| Namibia | |
| Name | Oryx |
| Namesake | Oryx |
| Builder | Abeking & Rasmussen |
| Launched | 1975 |
| Recommissioned | 2002 |
| Home port | Walvis Bay |
| Identification |
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| Status | in active service |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement | 406 tonnes (400 long tons) |
| Length | 41 m (134 ft 6 in) |
| Beam | 9.12 m (29 ft 11 in) |
| Draught | 2.94 m (9 ft 8 in) |
| Installed power |
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| Propulsion | 1 shaft |
| Speed | 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph) |
| Range | 4,100 nmi (7,600 km) at 11 kn (20 km/h) |
| Complement | 20 |
| Sensors & processing systems | |
| Armament | 1 × 12.7/90 mm gun (1 × 1) |
NS Oryx (P01) is a patrol vessel of the Namibian Navy. Formerly a civilian fisheries patrol vessel it was transferred to the Ministry of Defence in 2002, it was commissioned in 2002 into the Namibian Navy.