CIPPB Te Kukupa II
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Te Kukupa II is a Guardian-class patrol boat built in Australia for the Cook Islands.[1] It replaced the original Te Kukupa, supplied to the Cook Islands three decades earlier. Her crew is drawn from the Cook Islands Police Service.
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Te Kukupa II in Avarua harbour in July 2023 | |
History | |
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Cook Islands | |
Name | Te Kukupa II |
Builder | Austal |
Launched | January 2022 |
Acquired | 9 June 2022 |
Identification |
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Status | In service |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Guardian-class patrol boat |
Length | 39.5 m (130 ft) |
Beam | 8 m (26 ft) |
Draft | 2.5 ft (0.76 m) |
Propulsion | 2 × Caterpillar 3516C diesels, 2 shafts |
Speed | 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph) |
Range | 3,000 nautical miles (5,600 km; 3,500 mi) at 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
Armament | Australia provides the ships without armament, but they are designed to be able to mount heavy machine guns, or an autocannon of up to 30mm on the foredeck |
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Australia supplied 22 Pacific Forum-class patrol boats to 12 of its smaller Pacific Forum allies when the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea established that maritime nations controlled an economic exclusion zone 200 kilometres (120 mi) off their coasts.