Spanish patrol vessel Tornado

Tornado (P-44) is the fourth ship of the Meteoro class, a new kind of offshore patrol vessels created for the Spanish Navy and called BAMs.

NameTornado

Ordered31 July 2006

BuilderNAVANTIA

Cost€166.74m (US$224m)^[1]

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Tornado (P-44)
History
Spain
Name	Tornado
Ordered	31 July 2006
Builder	NAVANTIA
Cost	€166.74m (US$224m)[1]
Laid down	5 May 2010
Launched	21 March 2011
Commissioned	19 July 2012
Decommissioned	In active service
Home port	Las Palmas Naval Base
Identification	pennant number: P-44
General characteristics
Class & type	Meteoro class BAM
Displacement	2860 tons full load
Length	93.9 metres (308 ft)
Beam	14.2 metres (47 ft)
Draft	4.2 metres (14 ft)
Propulsion	2 diesel engines 4 groups diesel generators 2 electric motors propellers 1 Emergency generator Located 2 cross bow thruster
Speed	20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph)
Range	3,500 nautical miles (6,500 km; 4,000 mi)
Complement	46 crew and 30 forces[2]
Armament	1 cannon 76 mm/62 gun 2 x 25 mm automatic mountings 2 × 12.7 mm machine guns
Aircraft carried	1 × NH-90

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Though normally based in the Canary Islands, as of October 2024 the patrol ship was assigned to carry out maritime security operations in Spanish waters off North Africa, near the Island of Alborán.^[3]