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TUNAS SAMUDERA


Vessel stats

Class A
Nationality Malaysia
Year Built 1989
Rig Brigantine

Specification


  • Name: TUNAS SAMUDERA
  • Class: A
  • Nationality: Malaysia
  • Year built: 1989
  • Rig: Brigantine
  • Height: 10.06 m
  • Length of hull: 25.66 m

About


  • Number of trainees: 26
  • Number of permanent crew: 10

Biography


The design and build of Tunas Samudera was jointly funded by the British and Malaysian governments.  She was handed over to the Malaysian Navy in 1989 in a joint ceremony by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and His Majesty Yan Di-Pertuan Agong.  The ship is operated as a sail training vessel by the Royal Malaysian Navy, but training voyages are run for civilian youth groups as well as navy cadets.  Her name means @Offspring of the Ocean@.  She is a sister ship to the Australian Navy’s Young Endeavour which was built in the same yard two years earlier.