DEARSAN SHIPYARD

Special vessel : offshore patrol-vessel (shipyard)
TUZLA CLASS DEARSAN SHIPYARD

- 55.75m 182' 11"ft Dearsan is the main contractor for the 16-piece Tuzla Class Patrol Boat Programme whose tender was called by Undersecretariat for Defence Industry in order to meet the requirements of the Turkish Naval Forces Command. The design of the 56 meter Patrol Boat has been fully developed by Dearsan's in-house concept design and combat systems design/integration divisions.

The first patrol boat named "TCG TUZLA" by the Turkish Navy honoring the region dedicated to Turkish shipbuilding has been delivered on time and in budget making Dearsan Shipyard the first privately owned shipyard to deliver a war ship in Turkey and elevating Dearsan into a select group of companies capable to produce, equip, design and integrate naval platforms and weapon systems.

It is planned to deliver one patrol boat every three months until 2015. With its optimised characteristics, proven performance and high capabilities, Tuzla Class Patrol Boat is able to carry out and accomplish missions like operations against assymmetric threats, coastline, waterway, port, oil/gas field protection, anti-smuggling, anti-piracy, illegal immigration patrols and fisheries inspection.

Development activities are being carried out carefully by Dearsan to have similar variants of Tuzla Class Patrol Boat in order to have the flexibility for specialiesed requests and requirements from other end users therefore tailor building the Tuzla Class Patrol Boat for each client such as adding a rear ramp for inflatable craft for Coast Guard operations, integrating different missile systems for air defence, adding a larger forward gun for corvette type missions or even extending the dimensions to comply with end user requirments.
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