In the yard of Castellammare di Fincantieri the pattugliatore Ubaldo Diciotti is launched



Today in the ship yard of Castellammare di Stabia (Naples) of the Fincantieri group the pattugliatore Ubaldo Diciotti, the second unit is launched multirole commissioned from the General Command of the Harbour offices for Italian Guard Costiera. The unit, launched binoculars of Luigi Dattilo last December and in delivery within the summer, will enter in service for the turn of the year.

To the ceremony they were you anticipate, between the others, the president of the Campania Region, Stefano Caldoro, Commander Generale of the Body of the Harbour offices, admiral Felicio Angrisano, and for Fincantieri the managing director Giuseppe Bono and president Vincenzo Petrone.

The units multirole for Guard Costiera are conceived in order to operate offshore also in conditions particularly adverse weather-navy and will be employed for operations of search and rescue, antipollution, antifire and functions of control of clandestine immigration. Functions central and command of complex naval operations will be able moreover to operate with.

Long 94 meters and wide 16, the new pattugliatori will be able to reach the maximum speed of about 18 knots, with an autonomy of beyond 3.000 miles, for a displacement fully loaded of about 3.600 tons. They will be able to on board accommodate a crew of 38 people, with the possibility to embark ulterior 12 technicians and 60 castaways.

Moreover dinghies to rigid keel) in a position to reaching the speed 35 knots will be equipped of four fast boats (and being employed in various types of mission and participations of emergency. They will have at last of a flight deck for helicopters of type AB212 or AW139.

The units moreover are equipped of adulterated systems of command and control, radar of last generation in a position to being able to discover and to follow eventual present pollution spots on the surface of the sea and have of a wide poppiero door that allows the access and the transport of motor vehicles on the wide bridge of job.

The true point of force of these pattugliatori - it has specified Fincantieri - is the innovative aspect of the propulsive system of hybrid type, that it previews a propulsion auxiliary diesel engine-electrical worker to use for lowlands and lowest sailing points, necessary when operations of vigilance and control for been extended times are executed, otherwise impossible to realize with the traditional propulsion.