HMS Exploit (P167)

HMS Exploit
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Exploit
Operator	Royal Navy
Builder	Vosper Thornycroft
Commissioned	1988
Identification	MMSI number: 235009900 Callsign: GABD
Motto	Actis Inclitis - With Illustrious Deeds
Status	In active service
General characteristics
Class and type	Archer-class patrol vessel
Displacement	54 tonnes
Length	20.8 m (68 ft 3 in)
Beam	5.8 m (19 ft 0 in)
Draught	1.8 m (5 ft 11 in)
Propulsion	2 shafts, Rolls-Royce M800T diesels, 1,590 bhp
Speed	20 kn (37 km/h)
Range	550 nmi (1,020 km)
Complement	5 ship's company plus up to 1 training officer and 12 URNU students
Sensors and processing systems	Decca 1216 navigation radar

HMS Exploit is an Archer-class (or P2000) patrol vessel of the British Royal Navy, built in Woolston by Vosper Thornycroft and commissioned in 1988.^[1][2] She is assigned to the Royal Navy Coastal Forces Squadron, carrying out a range of activities both in the U.K. and overseas.

The ship's company consists of a permanent staff of the commanding officer, two senior rates and two junior rates, but can take up to twelve students with training officers usually embarked when conducting navigational training. Whilst at sea, students are able to put into practice navigation and seamanship skills they have learnt in the classroom during weekly training nights. These include chart planning, acting as Officer of the Watch, using the ship's radar and carrying out seamanship evolutions from anchoring to securing alongside. Instruction is given in engineering, firefighting, damage control and ship handling. The ship is based in HMNB Portsmouth.