Hellenic Navy takes delivery of second batch of Island-class cutters, latest multirole support vessel

One of the second pair of Island-class cutters is pictured arriving at Salamis Naval Base on 1 September. (Hellenic Navy)

The Hellenic Navy has taken delivery of its second pair of ex-US Coast Guard (USCG) Island-class cutters and a fourth multimission support ship.

The three ships arrived at Salamis Naval Base on 1 September, the Hellenic Navy announced the same day.

The Hellenic Navy acquired the four ex-Island-class cutters via the US Defense Security Cooperation Agency’s Office of International Acquisition’s Excess Defense Articles (EDA) programme as replacements for its ageing Andromeda (Nasty)-class and Antoniou-class patrol boats, which were built in the 1960s/70s.

The delivery of the second pair, ex- Monomoy (WPB-1326) and ex- Wrangell (WPB-1332), follows that of ex- Adak (WPB-1333) and ex- Aquidneck (WPB-1308) on 4 July. Aquidanek and Adak were decommissioned from the USCG in June 2021, followed by Monomoy and Wrangell in March 2022. The vessels will be renamed Mantouvalos Ioannis (P 197), Galanis Georgios (P 198), Liaskos Antonios (P 288), and Gialopsos Ektoras (P 289) in Hellenic Navy service.