Austal Hull 398 - Trinidad and Tobago Coast Guard Cape-class Patrol Boat Launch, November 2020

Video of the launch of the first of two 58 metre Cape-class Patrol Boats under construction at Austal Australia, for the Trinidad and Tobago Coast Guard; Henderson, Western Australia November 2020.

[@TheChico868]

Thank you my Australian friends from Trinidad & Tobago

[@ramaeschlimann]

Amazing! Greetings from Honduras. Congratulations to the people of T&T.

[@avragetrinidadian3787]

Thanks.

[@josephwebster9546]

The 62m opv from Israel is a better vessel than this, Honduras 👍

[@ramaeschlimann]

@@josephwebster9546 Well, you are right. But this Austal vessel is also amazing ship. ^_^

[@boostedperformance7762]

Thanks 🙏

[@justinleid7538]

Thank

[@KingHunter868]

Beautiful ship for my beautiful country 🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹

[@dezjamesjr4376]

Trinidad and Tobago 🇹🇹 ♥

[@ratbatnufftime2861]

Well, we are here in Trinidad and Tobago eagerly awaiting their arrival. Let's hope that they will help us to move one step closer to finally securing our borders.

[@FaddaWolf]

A beauty! can't wait to see it up close in Trinidad and Tobago when i'm out spearfishing

[@jaydenmendezx350]

Bravo! Well Done Again Team Austal 👑

[@TheChico868]

Best Patrol boat in the world folks

[@carloko08]

wow, great boat to reconvert into a yatch, without all the super expensive military equipment and with electric engines this ship would worth a 1/10 the price

[@shipbuildingandrepairdevco5236]

We look forward to her safe arrival!

[@robman2095]

Austal should be able to sell a few of these into an expanding market with Chinese fishing trawlers so active around the world taking fish from other country's waters.

[@jamalpeters9176]

Can't wait to be a sailor 😩❤️

[@petermcgreevy6386]

Beautiful,I would like to go on the test runs if you have room.....Thanks.

[@ldc7305]

Superb! Can we see the interior and specs?

[@seanbramble4649]

The economic situation which Trinidad and Tobago finds itself in demands at least five more vessels like this. This country needs to secure its borders from illegal entry and illegal activities. Trinidad and Tobago needs to secure its resources for its citizens ONLY and not for the citizens of countries which do not take care of their citizens properly. Nuff said.

[@ErrolSinghtriniwood]

A request from the US to help secure the border will not only save all this wasteful millions of US dollars that T&T desperately need but will be more effective but Tief Rowlie friend Maduro will vex with Rowlie for that and the PNM much needed guns and drugs will not be able to pass and you cannot bribe the US navy.

[@ALWH1314]

That’s a good looking ship/boat, interested in her specs.

[@unclelink]

Looks mean! This was supposed to be us 10 years ago... oh well, that's in the past! Better late than never! Is the crew ready? I have a feeling they'll be at it within days of arrival!

[@anthonyblackman7669]

I believe those were even better, they also had a helipad to facilitate a helicopter and bigger guns on board. brazil is enjoying them now.

[@robman2095]

@@anthonyblackman7669 Austal were fairly recently discussing an order for 6 extended 80m Cape Class boats with a helipad on the back for the Phillipines I believe but I don't know if they were ordered. More expensive no doubt and maybe T&T didn't need it anymore or didn't want to wait until it could be developed.

[@frednerk2127]

just keep an eye on those stern tubes....

[@themadhuey]

Ezy fit cylinders ? I work for ezy fit 👌

[@TrinispaceTT]

Nice

[@josephwebster9546]

It those look nice, but I'm not seeing any place for armament that the tt coast guard vessel usually have,a 20mm navy gun, the prime minister had a problem when the last government had purchased the Chinese vessel with out any armament at that time,

[@TrinispaceTT]

@@josephwebster9546 the armament will be installed during its fit out phase and before sea trials. The Chinese vessel was a waste because i don't see it purpose without armament.

[@josephwebster9546]

The reason for asking is with the Austal promotional video for the six 30m boat you could see a platform for a weapon on the deck,same thing with the Daman vessel in the video before the weapon was installed there was a platform on the deck, but you're not seeing it on the deck of this vessel.

[@TrinispaceTT]

@@josephwebster9546 weapons could also be installed on either side or stern of a naval vessel as well. There would be armament, I look it up. The Cape Class Patrol boats come with a few .50 caliber machine guns on the deck.

[@vasishtaharripersad5826]

nice it is beautiful

[@josephwebster9546]

The video nice even birds and a dolphin come to see, is this the first time that the cape class has not been painted in the blue and white?

[@robman2095]

I think so. The Australian navy operates a couple, but they are also blue and white for some reason instead of the standard grey (just determined by googling photos on delivery), but without the red stripes that Border Force have on theirs. They are building another six for the navy but if the first two were blue and white probably the rest will be too I guess. But the previous generation Armidale patrol boats are all grey so anything is possible.

[@adulting5369]

now just give it a weapons package and you got something

[@joyrojo5317]

itong porma ng barkong pang digma ang nagustuhan ko astig sa stile

[@josephroo7060]

TNT 5 - O M.O.N.S.T.E.R.

[@avragetrinidadian3787]

Cool.

[@ciaraduprey3146]

Love it💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓

[@zinoudz1275]

good work austal share your design with OCEA please

[@snapdragon9300]

No helideck.No hanger. No good for RNZN, surprised this is what RAN chose to replace its armidales🙄 We in Nz sold ours because they are too small , and avoided these ships here as our future additional OPV must have permanent onboard helo capacity.

[@kadendookie178]

That doesn't matter because we don't need to operate such ships. Besides the helicopters we already have are grounded lmfao

[@matthewxkiller2244]

my grampa was mr mervin williams and dad was mark williams

[@MahadsalmaSalma]

We need 3 for Somali Cost Gurard

[@samuelfarsario4027]

Any updates of philippine OPV

[@asarono]

Wish Indonesian Coast Guard also buy this patrol ships

[@kai69420]

No is for trinidad and Tobago

[@TrinispaceTT]

@@kai69420 he said he wished Indonesian Coast Guard have these patrol ships, not that this ship belongs to them.

[@kai69420]

@@TrinispaceTT ok

[@simonsingh5929]

Astul makes all our boats

[@derronjoseph1408]

Nope except for a few coast guard vessels,a few of them were built by damen shipyards

[@Realadece1]

Word of advise from other countrys dont mess with the caribbean

[@albert-uj8ci]

OK just a boat video, ` boat like hundreds of others. Nothing special. Austal has nothing to say about it.

[@mehtapramod23]

WE SHOULD INVEST HEAVILY ON HIGH SPEED FERRY VEHICLES FOR NEXT 20 YEAR

[@reppintrini3576]

This new boat 2 do what in trinidad??anchor and rot...sad reality

[@robman2095]

Maybe to police you-know-who fishing in your waters.