The Defender

She was formally named 'Al Majihad' and was built in Lowestoft for the Sulton of Omans Navy. After almost 20 years service as a fast attack vessel, she was de-commissioned, returned to the UK and renamed the Defender. She is now owned privately and is having a refit below deck for her new role. Her internal refit is coming along well but she will be in the Basin until probably at least the end of 2009. Speaking to the owners they mentioned that on her way back to England, the hired crew hit full throttle coming out of the Suez Canal to see what she went like and promptly ran into a fleet of American warships on a practice exercise. The site of a foreign fast attack vessel flying towards the Americans caused a bit of an ‘incident’ to say the least! They made the Defender surrender at gun & missile point thinking it was a hostile attack! Have a look on the Defender page for a few onboard photos. Thanks to my friend John for this! It was a surprise to find a ship like this here!

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