Albanian Iliria-class patrol vessel Butrinti visits France.

According to a tweet published by the CECMED on July 4, 2022, the Albanian Iliria-class patrol vessel Butrinti made a port call in the South of France, in Toulon.
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Iliria-class patrol vessel Butrinti (Picture source: Cecmed)

Butrinti is a Damen Stan 4207 patrol vessel of the Albanian Naval Force, built at the Pashaliman Naval Base. The patrol vessel was launched on April 8, 2014.

She is used to perform a number of tasks and duties, including coastal patrol, search and rescue, control and monitoring of maritime traffic, and marine environment protection. She is also used in joint operations between Albania and other European countries.

About Iliria-class patrol vessels

Iliria-class patrol vessels is an Albanian Coast Guard class of patrol vessels, that is based on the Damen Stan 4207 patrol vessel design. The first ship of this class Iliria (P 131), from which the class takes its name, was produced in Gorinchem, Netherlands by Damen Group and was commissioned in 2008.

The other three vessels were built locally starting from 2009 to 2014 in Albania by the state-owned Pashaliman Shipyard. Over a dozen navies, coast guards and other government agencies operate vessels based on this design.

While some of those vessels are equipped for purely civilian patrols, the Albanian ships are armed with a remote-controlled 20mm Nexter M621 NARWHAL cannon.

The class itself was built to the Damen Stan Patrol 4207 design by the Damen Shipyards in the Netherlands and has a steel hull with an aluminum superstructure.

Much effort has been expended in making them quiet to reduce crew fatigue; their engines are raft-mounted, decks throughout the ships are of a floating type, and their compartments are constructed on a box-within-a-box principle.

A 7-meter (23 ft) rigid inflatable boat (RIB) can be launched from the stern slipway. They are fitted with a 2,000-litre (440 imp gal) per minute fire fighting system for dealing with fires in other ships.