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Naval / patrol
Operated by Naval Unit Republic of Fiji Military Forces
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Largest in this registry
#77,295
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest naval / patrol
#212
of 268 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Largest in its fleet
#1
of 2 in this fleet with a recorded tonnage
In brief
RFNS Timo (403) is a Guardian-class patrol boat of the Republic of Fiji Navy. She replaced RFNS Puamau, another Guardian-class patrol boat after she ran aground in 2024. The vessel was commissioned on 22 November 2024. The vessel is named after Able Seaman Timo Puamau, who was killed whilst serving aboard the Lender-class light cruiser HMNZS Leander during World War II.
Vessel particulars
Every value is as recorded in the source. Blanks are values the source does not hold — none is estimated from a sister ship or a class average.
Identification
Construction
Measurements
In context
Every figure in this section is a count, a rank or a percentile over vessels actually held in this registry — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.
At 331 gross tons, RFNS Timo is the 77,295th largest of the 84,014 vessels in this registry that report a tonnage. The median across that set is 5,994 GT, so this hull is about 18 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 611 naval / patrols held here, it ranks 212th by tonnage — larger than 21% of that group. Their median tonnage is 1,325 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 23,606 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is United States (136 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Austal, with 33 hulls on record.
Timor-Leste is the country of registry for 2 vessels in this directory, of which RFNS Timo is the 2nd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is naval / patrols (1 ships), and the median vessel measures 32,064 GT. Browse every ship flagged Timor-Leste.
RFNS Timo was built in 2024, making it 2 years old. It is one of 116 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 25,985 GT; within it this ship is the 84th largest. Across the whole of the 2020s the registry holds 1,769 vessels, median 29,777 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 122 vessels to Austal, with a median tonnage of 720 GT, delivered between 1993 and 2026. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 39.5 m overall, RFNS Timo is 47.0 m shorter than the 86.5 m median for naval / patrols on record, with a beam of 8.0 m and a draft of 2.5 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 4736516 this registry holds 2 other vessels, whose median build year is 2024. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2024.
Its IMO number, 4736516, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 4×7 + 7×6 + 3×5 + 6×4 + 5×3 + 1×2 = 126 — and the last digit of that total, 6, must equal the seventh digit, 6. It does, so this number is well formed.
Nearest by tonnage among naval / patrols
| Ship | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|
| Atlantique | 2004 | 350 |
| HMAS Protector | 1984 | 343 |
| PM39 Okushiri (ship, 2013) | 2013 | 335 |
| RFNS Timo (this ship) | 2024 | 331 |
| Harle Express | 2021 | 326 |
| IMO 9970789 | 2022 | 322 |
| BRP Suluan |
Class
| Ship | IMO | Flag | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HMPNGS Ted Diro (P401) | 4734104 | Papua New Guinea | 2018 | 305 |
| RSIPV Gizo | 4734142 | Solomon Islands | 2019 | 305 |
| RFNS Savenaca | 4734154 | Fiji | 2020 | — |
| VOEA Ngahau Siliva (P302) | 4734180 | — | 2021 | — |
| HMPNGS Francis Agwi (P403) | 4734221 | Papua New Guinea | 2021 | — |
| RSIPV Taro | 4734207 | Solomon Islands | 2021 | — |
| CIPPB Te Kukupa II | 4734245 | Cook Islands | 2022 | — |
| HMPNGS Gilbert Toropo | 4734269 | Papua New Guinea | 2022 | — |
| FSS Tosiwo Nakayama | 4734233 | Federated States of Micronesia | 2022 | — |
| FSS David W. Panuelo | 4734257 | Federated States of Micronesia | 2022 | — |
| RFNS Puamau | 4734283 | Fiji | 2023 | — |
| Western Samoan patrol vessel Nafanua III | 4734271 | Samoa | 2024 | — |
Same fleet
Provenance
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