The Spanish Navy's "Slayer" high patrol

The high-rise patrol "Slayer" caused a decrease yesterday, April 26, on the Navy's Official Ship List after 36 years of service, in which almost 1,500 sailors have served. In these years, the ship has accumulated more than 3,500 days of sea, visiting more than 80 ports in 25 different countries.

The farewell event was held at the pier Juan de Borbon del Arsenal in Cartagena. The ceremony was presided over by the Chief Admiral of the Arsenal, Vice Admiral Aniceto Rosique Nieto.

The "Hunting" patrol was the fifth ship of the old "discovered" class corbites. Bottled on 17 October 1978 and handed over to the Navy on 20 July 1981, in the year 2,004 it was reformed to perform its new functions as a high patrol.

It was the third Navy ship to receive this name, the first was an urk that caused a decrease in the Navy in 1779, in the port of Havana, and the second was a 16-gun corbeta launched in El Ferrol in 1779, which carried out missions in the Rio de la Plata, Malvinas Islands, Patagonian coast and between the Spanish and Italian Mediterranean ports, serving until 1797.

The patrol, with a length of 88.90 meters, a manga of 10.40 meters and a point of 6.20 meters, moved 1,233 tons, being able to reach 1,666 tons at full load, being its maximum capacity for accommodation of 117 people. During his period of service as a Navy, he participated in countless national and international missions, including the participation in the 1991 Persian Gulf mission along with the "Vengeance" corbeta, following Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, in a monitoring and blockade mission under UN mandate, and its deployment of Maritime Surveillance and Cooperative Security in West Africa and Gulf of Guinea in 2011.