RSS Vengeance

RSS Vengeance during CARAT 2006
History
Singapore
Name	Vengeance
Namesake	Vengeance
Builder	ST Engineering
Launched	23 December 1990
Commissioned	25 May 1991
Homeport	Tuas
Identification	Pennant number: 93
Motto	Fight For The Right
Status	Active
General characteristics
Class and type	Victory-class corvette
Displacement	595 t (586 long tons; 656 short tons)
Length	62 m (203 ft 5 in)
Beam	8.5 m (27 ft 11 in)
Draught	2.6 m (8 ft 6 in)
Propulsion	4× Maybach MTU 16 V 538 TB93 high speed diesels coupled to 4× shafts Total output: 16,900 hp (12,600 kW)
Speed	Maximum: 37 knots (69 km/h; 43 mph) Cruising: 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph)
Range	4,000 nmi (7,400 km) at 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph)
Complement	49 with 8 officers
Sensors and processing systems	Search radar: Ericsson/Radamec Sea Giraffe 150HC (G/H band) / Saab Sea Giraffe AMB post-2011 SLEP Navigation radar: Kelvin Hughes 1007 (I band) Weapon control: Elbit MSIS optronic director Sonar: Thomson Sintra TSM 2064 VDS
Electronic warfare & decoys	ESM: Elisra SEWS ECM: RAFAEL RAN 1101 Jammer Decoys: 2× Plessey Shield 9-barrelled chaff launchers, 2× twin RAFAEL long range chaff launchers fitted below the bridge wings
Armament	Anti-ship: 4 × Boeing Harpoon Anti-air: 2 × 8-cell VLS for IAI/RAFAEL Barak Anti-submarine: EuroTorp A244/S Mod 1 torpedoes launched from 2 × triple-tubes(all removed) Main gun: 1 × Oto Melara 76mm Super Rapid gun Machine guns: 4 × STK 50MG 12.7 mm (0.50 in) HMGs
Aircraft carried	1× Boeing ScanEagle unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)

RSS Vengeance (93) is the sixth ship of the Victory-class corvette of the Republic of Singapore Navy.^[1]

Construction and career

Vengeance was launched on 23 December 1990 by ST Engineering and was commissioned on 25 May 1991.

During Workyear 2003/2004, she was awarded Best Ship Award and Operational Excellence Award by the navy.^[2]

RSS Vengeance took part in the inaugural Exercise Bersama Padu, a joint Five Power Defence Arrangements (FPDA) exercise, in 2006.^[3]

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