Community Vessel Fast Patrol Craft

This is the second smallest boat in the entire Naval Service of the Community Defence Forces of Sober Thought. It is similar to the Federal German Navy’s Type 143 class of fast attack boats. The fast patrol boat is designed for patroling inland and coastal waters, whether on its own or in a group of patrol boats and minelayers/sweepers.

For such small craft, fast patrol boats are surprisingly well armed against aerial, surface and subsurface threats. An 80 mm dual anti-ship and anti-aircraft gun in mounted in a bow turret. One quad anti-ship missile launchers, equipped with 32 missiles, backs up the gun for surface threats while two twin missile battery, with 24 missiles, does the same for air threats. On each side of the turret there is a torpedo tube, and the ship carries eight torpedoes for these two launchers.

A Vice Lieutenant is the commanding officer and a Boats Petty Officer is the latter's deputy. Between them, they control a crew of 33 others. In turn they often report to the Chief Lieutenant on a small craft tender based on the hull of a frigate. One tender may have under its control a task detachment of many fast patrol boats or minelayers/sweepers.

Twelve patrol boats are built for each one hundred million people in Sober Thought. Because there are so many of them and they are inconsequential in the great scheme of things, they bear numbers only rather than names as well. The first batch are are named P-1 through P-12, second P-13 through P-24, etc.