 RSS Valour and RSS Independence during SIMBEX 2014 | |
| History | |
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| Name | Valour |
| Namesake | Valour |
| Builder | ST Engineering |
| Launched | 10 December 1988 |
| Commissioned | 18 August 1990 |
| Homeport | Tuas |
| Identification |
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| Motto | Serve With Valour |
| Status | Active |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Victory-class corvette |
| Displacement | 595 t (586 long tons; 656 short tons) |
| Length | 62 m (203 ft 5 in) |
| Beam | 8.5 m (27 ft 11 in) |
| Draught | 2.6 m (8 ft 6 in) |
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| Range | 4,000 nmi (7,400 km) at 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph) |
| Complement | 49 with 8 officers |
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| Aircraft carried | 1× Boeing ScanEagle unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) |
RSS Valour (89) is the second ship of the Victory-class corvette of the Republic of Singapore Navy.[1]
Victory was launched on 10 December 1988 by ST Engineering and was commissioned on 18 August 1990.
In 1999, RSS Valour was sent to Guam in preparation for Exercise Tandem Thrust '99.
From 22 to 24 May, RSS Valour and RSS Independence participated in the SIMBEX-2014.[2]
In December 2014, Persistence was deployed in the search for Airasia Flight QZ8501 after it crashed into the Java Sea on 28 December 2014; along with the RSN ships Supreme, Valour, and Kallang, MVSwift Rescue, and two Lockheed C-130H Hercules.[3][4][5]
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