HDMS Hajen
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LNS Dzūkas (P 12) (ex-HDMS Hajen (P551)) is a former patrol boat of the Royal Danish Navy. Since 2009 she is in service with the Lithuanian Navy.
LNS Dzūkas | |
| History | |
|---|---|
 Denmark | |
| Name | Hajen |
| Namesake | Shark in Danish |
| Builder | Danyard A/S, Frederikshavn |
| Laid down | February 1988 |
| Launched | 6 August 1989 |
| Commissioned | 19 August 1990 |
| Decommissioned | 23 January 2009 |
| Identification | Hull number: P551 |
| Fate | Sold to Lithuania |
 Lithuania | |
| Name | Dzūkas |
| Namesake | Dzūkija region |
| Commissioned | 2009 |
| Identification |
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| Status | In service |
| General characteristics [1][2][3] | |
| Class & type | Flyvefisken-class patrol vessel |
| Displacement | 400 tonnes (394 long tons) |
| Length | 54 m (177 ft 2 in) |
| Beam | 9 m (29 ft 6 in) |
| Draught | 3.60 m (11 ft 10 in) |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph) (28 knots (52 km/h; 32 mph) with gas turbine) |
| Range | 2,000 nmi (3,700 km) |
| Boats & landing craft carried | 1x RHIB |
| Complement | 19 to 29 |
| Sensors & processing systems | |
| Armament |
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History
She is the second ship in the Flyvefisken class, which is also known as the Standardflex 300 or SF300 class. She was laid down in February 1988, launched on 6 August 1989, with the commissioning taking place on 19 August 1990.
In 2009, Hajen was sold to the Lithuanian Navy, which renamed her Dzūkas. After a refit she was commissioned into the navy later that same year.
