The United States (US) Coast guard warship donated to Nigerian Navy will the USA for Nigeria today. The warship will set from Alameda,California to Nigeria. The North America correspodent of News Agency of Nigeria, NAN,has reported. The vessel designed as a'high endurance' with a crossing range of 9,600 miles at 20 nots was donated to Nigeria on May 13 The ship also has an 80-foot flight deck capable of handling navy hericopters and can undertake extended patrol missions. Its capabilities are enhanced by advanced search and surface radars including ANIPS-73 digital surface radar system that incorporates state of art computerised collision avoidance system. A ceremony for the departure has been scheduled to take place at the coast guard island in Alameda where it was docked. The warship is expected to enhance the seaworthiness of the nigerian navy and make it well prepared to effectively police not only nigeria's territorial waters but the entire west Africa. The warship was commissioned to the USA navy in 1968, but later decommissioned in march 29 after it had participated in some USA missions in enforcing maritime treaties. NAN learnt that the ship had not left for Nigeria because,the nigerian crew was undergoing training on it while rehabilitation work was being carried out.It had been renamed Nigerian navy Thunder f90.
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